Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In a still-raging pandemic and cascade of atrocities, there’s a governmental and cultural push to rush through grief, to get back to business and move on. A cultural “correction” of time, to get back on the “right track.”
Annika Hansteen-Izora • Time is Water
It makes me sound a little like a boot-strapping, we-can-do-hard-things motivational speaker who is secretly a psycho and also had it easy their whole life. Obviously those people are annoying. But I find the overly sensitive, we-don’t-have-to-do-hard-things counter-narrative grating in its own way. I think a lot of us do—I hear just as much... See more
Haley Nahman • #95: Are you baby? A litmus test
Like tree rings, the body remembers.
Akilah Johnson • Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out
Because we are taught to assume that people who are threatened will naturally run or fight (or imagine that is what we would do if faced with a dire circumstance), it confuses us to hear that somebody might instead freeze, dissociate, or shut down.
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World_Stephen and Seth Porges
Wonder Why…
The strategist is no longer a domain expert in isolation, but a pattern recogniser across disciplines - someone attuned to the logic of living systems.
Why does this matter? Because traditional strategy was built on fragmentation. On dividing markets from cultures, insight from intuition, brand from business.
But these divisions were always
... See morezoe scaman • The Work
Having complete responsibility for and power over my domain seemed like the ultimate rite of passage into adulthood. I’d consumed plenty of media that reinforced the idea, too. Looking back, I don’t regret my choice to try it, but I wonder what I actually proved.
Haley Nahman • #96: Why Do We Aspire to Live Alone?
When you take away the crypto jargon, a DAO is intuitive, not intimidating. Self-organizing is our human instinct. Being in community is what enabled our survival as humans. Forming tribes improved our ability to gather resources, defend against enemies, and build collective knowledge. Coming together around a shared cause, deciding on group norms,... See more