Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
When you’re focused on something few others are thinking about, you find yourself constantly making the case to yourself and others that your vision is worth pursuing and worthy of other people’s attention. This ongoing need to justify your work creates a significant emotional overhead
Yancey Strickler • When Your Purpose Is 1-of-1
The stuckness doesn’t just apply to arguments about guns. It applies to our sclerotic politics more broadly: the overlapping crises from climate inaction, the constant bungling of our pandemic response, and the seemingly successful attempt to roll back abortion rights. The stuckness isn’t part of a debate about how to move forward. It is, instead,... See more
Charlie Warzel • How The Internet Is Like A Dying Star
Interdependence offered a route that honored the care of the self alongside the care of others and showed how those two are actually in loving relationship.
Katja Vujić • Is Somewhere Good the Future of Social Media?
Developing enough of a common dream language that we can be that much more explicit about the real futures we are shaping into existence.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
Kamrin Bakergoodgoodgood.co
aging and Cultivating Awe
Optionality is the capacity of a system to preserve multiple viable futures — to reconfigure, expand, contract, or retire without systemic failure. It is the architecture of adaptive capacity, encompassing:
• Reversibility – the ability to unmake safely;
• Modularity – the ability to upgrade or recompose incrementally;
• Interoperability – the
... See moreSubstack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
The only way to get a good model of the world inside your head is to bump into the world, to let the light and sound impinge upon your eyes and ears, and let the world carve the details into your world-model.
Nate Soares • Dive in
Ideation feeds on lateral thinking and free association. And the farther one can look the more there is to learn and connect. In this sense, crossing cultural borders – replete with unique languages, customs, traditions, politics, religions, senses (sights, sounds, smells, tastes), technologies, and philosophies – is the most expansive lateral... See more
Steve Hardy • What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
The concepts of learning, unlearning, and relearning belong in every futurist’s repertoire in the sense that we need to learn our bias for progress, unlearn its primacy as a societal objective, and relearn that the human condition is best served by achieving homeostasis–steady equilibrium.