Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
this state of supreme irritation has helped me get crystal clear about something vital: we need to talk about our culture’s obsession with feeling good all the time.
Sara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
destabilization of the self as its anchors in material culture slip.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
people who leave organized religion quickly become eager to replace the void with another system of meaning—a dimension most atheist groups have failed to consider.
Jasmine Bina • A Time to Build Tight Brands in the Chaos of Loose Cultures
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
I realized something which is fundamentally true of a lot of day jobs. Nothing I did at the job mattered, in the long run. No matter how much I spun, nothing about my situation ever changed. I worked my week, got to the end of it, and had nothing to show. The next week there would be more emails and more tickets, exactly like the week before. The... See more
kalzumeus.com • Don't End the Week With Nothing
Part of the problem is declining community. The polls imply that almost two billion people are so unhappy where they live they would not recommend their community to a friend. This is especially true in China and India.
New York Times • Opinion | The Rising Tide of Global Sadness
Participants from India and America, both nations with overwork cultures, endorsed the belief that leisure is wasteful more strongly than participants from France, which has social norms, “less restrictive of enjoying life and having fun”. In fact, while Malkoc estimates about 30% of the population endorses the ‘leisure is wasteful’ belief on... See more
bbc • The way we view free time is making us less happy
we wanted to break the legacy paradigm where research too often sits static; we wanted to hold ourselves accountable to turning passive reporting into forward motion that could result in products, services, and concepts that would bring us closer to the better future we’d discovered
Fancy • Multiplayer Futures
Why have institutions such as the church and the state always been so threatened by magic? Part of the answer derives from who practices it; again, there are few robust studies of the trials, but less than 15% of those executed were men. Often the women prosecuted were unmarried and intelligent, while lacking the formal education given to their... See more