Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
The physical, digital, and social environments we inhabit can either bring out the worst in us, making us more fearful and rigid, or they can encourage us to begin spiraling up into the best versions of ourselves.
Developmental Environments
Imagination is like thin air, cloud-like. Imagination only truly influences the world when it ceases to be imagination and mutates into repetitions, habits and cycles, becoming embedded in the rhythms of daily life, a part of people’s jobs and routines. Societies are best understood as patterns of regularity of this kind—what Pierre Bourdieu
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The loneliness of hypernormalization: thinking your incoherence is personal, individual, your failure to hold — when actually the incoherence is shared but we've lost the language and trust to name it together. Everyone managing their own wobble in private, which makes the collective wobble worse. What would it look like to stop performing holding... See more
Just a moment...
Our language choices change how we use our time and energy. For every word we use to describe where we want to go, there's another word that we're walking away from.
Abby Covert • How to Make Sense of Any Mess
the idea that creativity is combinatorial, that nothing is entirely original, that everything builds on what came before, and that we create by taking existing pieces of inspiration, knowledge, skill and insight that we gather over the course of our lives and recombining them into incredible new creations.
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
When the miracle flows, it flows both ways. When an offered gift is accepted, then the threads of love are knotted, snaring both the stranger who is kind, and the stranger who is kinded. Every time a gift is tossed it lands differently – but knowing that it will arrive in some colorful, unexpected way is one of the certainties of life.
Kevin Kelly • How Will the Miracle Happen Today?
If, on the other hand, we stop taking world leaders at their word and instead think of neoliber- alism as a political project, it suddenly looks spectacularly effective. The politicians, CEOs, trade bureaucrats, and so forth who regularly meet at summits like Davos or the G20 may have done a miserable job in creating a world capitalist economy that
... See moreDavid Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Challenger brands treat their consumers as more than just people who buy their stuff. They focus and speak to them with respect, unafraid of the fact that some people might reject them. Through the overcommitment to a specific tribe and mindset, along with the acceptance of rejection by others, Challengers create more exciting brand worlds,... See more