Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
imagination, rather than being seen as an ‘essential skill’, is commonly perceived as messy, unpredictable, a bit cheeky, potentially uncontrollable and a frivolous and unprofitable use of time.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Optionality reframes efficiency itself: the most efficient system is not the one with least redundancy, but the one with the broadest option-space per unit
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
If you only have one tool, you’ll use it in every situation—but you can’t use a hammer to screw things and you can’t use a saw to hammer a nail, so the wise human accumulates a bunch of tools, and getting this varied toolkit takes time.
Quartz • To thrive in a "wicked" world, you need range
Everything is a story, and people need to understand themselves as having a meaningful role within the story you, as an organizer, are telling. If their role in your story feels like “doom appreciator,” most people will recoil, retreat to their own smaller story, and keep the focus there.
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
Instead of asking How long will it last? the policy question becomes How many futures can it sustain?
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value