Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A creative mind is: 1. Connected. Creative aliveness requires inspiration, which can take many forms. A creative mind is connected to people who stimulate their imagination, to networks that foster collaboration, and to sources of content that provide them with interesting information.
2. Curious. Asking questions is one of the best ways to live a... See more
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative aliveness: turning life into a creative adventure
People focusing on the ways to turn a quick buck will miss the opportunity.
The Atlantic • Lessons From 19 Years in the Metaverse
Even without this social signaling, the lessons we learn inside of therapy favor a sort of hyperindividualistic self-sufficiency that encourages clients to prioritize personal growth over communal welfare or institutional change
Persinette • Less TikTok, More Screaming
Might it be that the kinds of knowledge we most need today are the kinds of knowledge that arise from women getting together in person, away from the male gaze?
Jonathan Rowson • Witch Envy
networks are heat-seeking missiles for value. Provide the value, and the network is there.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
We are very fluent in blunt, materialistic, capitalist questions: What? How soon? How much? What I hope that we can learn to do is add questions of moral imagination to that mix: questions like “Why?” and “To what human effect?” and “How much is enough?”
The On Being Project • Living the Questions
There is, as it happens, a word for this: zemblanity, the opposite of serendipity*.* Pandemic Time is suffused with zemblanity; it is a temporality shaped by a sense of certain doom, foreseen and amenable to some mitigation, but not entirely avertable.
Venkatesh Rao • Pandemic Time
Rituals can be defined as temporal technologies for housing oneself. They turn being in the world into being at home. Rituals are in time as things are in space. They stabilize life by structuring time.
NOEMA • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Cultivating enchantment is not about avoiding pain or upset or achieving an unchanging, constantly inspired state. It’s about loving the world when it hurts. Living in a constant state of oblivious bliss is not enchantment, it’s profound mis-attunement with ourselves and the world. Loving the world means being willing to be heartbroken by the world... See more