Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Another idea if you want to push against the mental pressure that kills good ideas, from Paul Graham’s recent essay on how to do good work: “One way to do that is to ask what would be good ideas for someone else to explore. Then your subconscious won't shoot them down to protect you.” I don’t know of anyone using this technique, but it might work.
Henrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
role for gen AI in ideation
Insofar, and so long as, American politics is treated by politicians, journalists, and news consumers as an entertainment product, consumed and discussed online, it will grow fandoms like any other entertainment product.
Max Read • Dark Brandon is fandom culture
Second, the separation of our different points of view encourages looking for solutions to problems with the same point of view from which the problem was formulated. Quoting Einstein: “Without changing our pattern of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems we created with our current patterns of thought.”
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
some of my best ideas, my most necessary changes, have come from exactly these periods of unbearable agitation. It's like my system knows something needs to shift before my conscious mind catches up, and all I can do is try to listen until the next right thing to do becomes clear. Yet in our “optimize everything” culture, this truth rarely gets
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
“Being excellent on a global scale begins with being excellent in the neighbourhood”
Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham, The Innovator’s Way
Peter J. Denning and Robert Dunham, The Innovator’s Way
Dr Matt Dowse • What Good Is Innovation if It Doesn’t Work for Everyone?
As theologian Walter Brueggeman writes on rest and sabbath—it’s a “pause that transforms.” Rest— of people, of land, of resources— is always linked to flourishing, not scarcity. Practiced in times of plenty and proven in times of crisis.
Paul Venuto • feed updates
I want us to better understand our position in the world relative to religion, particularly how our steadfast (if misguided) belief in secularism feeds into the idea of Western supremacy.
Religiously Blonde • Do We Really Want to Give God Away?
