Keely Adler
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brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The accumulation of these mini-thrills means you’ll still reap the benefits of looking forward to something, even if it’s not a big-ticket reward, said Christian E. Waugh, a psychology professor at Wake Forest University who studies anticipation.
Holly Burns • To Enjoy Life More, Embrace Anticipation
Hedgehogs vs. Foxes:
Patrick Tanguay • Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future?
Everybody winters at one time or another; some winter over and over again. Wintering is a season in the cold. It is a fallow period in life when you’re cut off from the world, feeling rejected, sidelined, blocked from progress, or cast into the role of an outsider. Perhaps it results from an illness or a life event such as a bereavement or the
... See moreKatherine May • Wintering
Inefficient does not mean ineffective, and it is certainly not the same as lazy. You get things done – just not in the most effective way possible. You’re a bit sloppy, and use more energy. But don’t feel bad about it. There is real value in not being the best.
Shane Parrish • Getting Ahead By Being Inefficient
post-algorithm;
an era of accidental friendships, a generation that refuses to be sorted
algorithm is knowingly manipulated as a wayfinder; algorithm becomes tool for autonomy
nametwitter.comSyzygy means “when opposites become one.” To step through the mirror itself is the art of illumination, of self-transformation. Through syzygy, the magician creates specific changes in their own behavior.
Max Anton Brewer • The Mirror of Language
‘intergenerational learning spaces’. ‘I believe’, he told me, ‘that you need at least three generations exploring things together to generate the conditions for real wisdom and imagination to emerge.’