Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Keval hypothesizes that this kind of cooking is powerful because of how it grants colonized subjects a degree of agency. By adapting the cuisine of their occupiers and warping the “authentic” flavors with their own, they’re able to reframe that relationship on their own terms.
Taste • Closing, Not Fusing, The Gap
What all of these examples have in common is that the former require less activation energy, feel good immediately, and feel crappy later on. The latter require more work up front, feel not so great immediately, and feel wonderful later on.
Fred Dreier • Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture
In addition to identifying the emotion you're feeling, the Feelings Wheel can also help you identify the opposite emotion . The opposite emotion is located on the exact opposite side of the wheel and can give you information about what emotion might help you at any given moment. For example, if you're feeling powerless, the opposite emotion might
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Swept up in the Instagramization of the 2010s, the contemporary poetry world saw an exaltation of ‘honesty’ as an aesthetic priority. Poetry not as craft, but as ‘outlet,’ with the goal not of developing ourselves and enriching our understanding of the world, but of sitting more comfortably with how we already were and what we already believed.
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These assumptions built the logic of the monumental state : a model in which infrastructure investment equated to progress, where permanence was synonymous with security, and where long-term certainty was seen as the highest form of public value.
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
Naming things can mobilize - investment, attention, and capital. Naming things can create identity and a sense of collective purpose and pride.
New_ Public • Celebrating the labor that holds up our democracy: the community entrepreneur
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines as the overarching belief about society that facilitates co-operation — diminishes when we lose opportunities to engage with people outside of our regular social networks.
Creative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #38
“Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
This two-cultures thinking, moreover, distorts the empirical realities of data collection, the challenging work of forcing unruly phenomena to speak in clean, distinct, ideally quantitative phrases