Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
in those rural and village settings, the pace of life was slower, and you come to urban settings and the pace of life increases and obviously our modern life is an extreme example of that run rampant, but it seems like one of the things that makes fermentation so attractive to folks, and you kind of intimated this earlier, is that it’s so much... See more
Sandor Katz • Fermentation as Metaphor
Our elders say that ceremonies are the way we “remember to remember
Robin Wall Kimmerer • Braiding Sweetgrass
The word “journey” suggests good things: “It’s the journey, not the destination!” Above all, it’s something willingly undertaken, not an abduction or a hijacking, or “a forced march,” according to one Reddit user. I doubt any trafficked persons ever described their passages into new lives as journeys. One typically chooses a journey for
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When it comes to network building, most people make the mistake of focusing on brand awareness, instead of expertise. They focus too much on the “legible” side of things, rather than knowledge and skills.
Substack • See your Career as a Product
Our systems, institutions, leaders and narratives about who and what we are — our lack of compassion and limited definitions of what a valued member of society is — are failing us. They have been failing us for quite some time
Stephanie Dinkins • Afro-Now-Ism
In fact, international research that studied thousands of workers—more than three-quarters of whom did not have tertiary education—produced findings that resonate with a major theme of the book: that sometimes the actions that provide a head start will undermine long-term development, whether that is choosing a career or a course of study, or... See more
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
More specifically, a social norm is one that we follow because we expect others to follow it, and because we think others have the attitude that it ought to be followed.
Alexandra Plakias • Awkwardness: A Theory
The posturing of DTC brands as cults reveals an impasse. People are looking for more meaningful narratives and communities than brands can offer, and companies want to supply this “meaning demand”—but are structurally disincentivized to do so.
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM
(in increasing order of effectiveness)
- Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards).
- The sizes of buffers and other stabilizing stocks, relative to their flows.
- The structure of material stocks and flows (such as transport networks, population age structures).
- The lengths of delays, relative to the