Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In a densely interdependent world, our imagination must be shared as well as individual, and it must reach out into the deep future, not just the immediate future. Freedom in the moment is not a true freedom. Without alternative options, we cannot plan or choose. We become slaves to the ideas of others.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Companies are built to be predictable and stable. That's a bad thing in today's world.
Once we get rid of the illusionary multitasking and the toxic productivity, cognitive bottlenecks are not inherently bad. They are just characteristics of our mind we need to consider when we plan our work and interact with the world.
Ness Labs • Cognitive bottlenecks: the inherent limits of the thinking mind
collective thinking behaviors are treated as epiphenomena at best, and pathologies at worst.
Substack • Graph Minds
Hospicing Modernity: A Conversation - Journal #139
e-flux.com
as Akomolafe (2022) puts it: the way we respond to a problem might become part of the problem. To escape this pattern, we need new ways of doing, being, thinking. Stretching our imagination beyond the boundaries of what is possible might turn out to be crucial to get unstuck from dominant narratives
Loes Damhof • Imagining the Impossible: An Act of Radical Hope
In New York, people speak fast. In the American South, they speak slowly. Both of them are a form of politeness, understood in a different way. In New York, you speak quickly because you respect the value of the other person’s time and you don’t want to take up too much of it. In the South, you speak slowly because you want to respect the person by... See more