Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The problem (or at least one of the problems) is that the twin edicts to simultaneously optimize your team and life and to be flexible in light of an uncertain future are in opposition to each other. Optimization presumes a kind of certainty about the circumstances one is optimizing for, but that certainty is, more often than not, illusory.
Mandy Brown • Against Optimization
resilience and
What may seem like disparate philosophies are all rooted in the same belief: that facilitating multiplayer futures means cultivating a healthy, generative, mutually-beneficial, and vibe-rich environment where people want to be , where people care about the outcomes, yes, but more importantly the people and the process, and where people can activate... See more
Em Howell • Multiplayer Futures
A strong interest in the role of futures, as well as planting narrative ‘seeds’ that could be harvested in the future
Abi Knipe • Conditions to Flourish: Understanding the Ecosystem for Narrative Power
Cut off from wider networks of care, relationship work begins to look like the solution for all the alienation we may feel under capitalism.
Real Life • Silent Partner
We have been told that there is only one kind of people and they are men. And I think it is very important that we all believe that. It certainly is important to the men.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
“Whenever I have encountered any kind of deep problem with civilization anywhere in the world [...] somewhere at the end of the long chain of events that gave rise to the problem at issue I have always found one and the same cause: a lack of accountability to and responsibility for the world.”