Keely Adler
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brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
“For a very long period of time, our index of negativity in American news articles fluctuated around a stable average,” the UPenn economist J. H. van Binsbergen, a co-author on the paper, told me. But since the 1970s, negativity has gone haywire. “News coverage has just gotten more and more negative every decade in the last 50 years, especially
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“Wayfinding“– An always unfinished, rhythmic, open and creative mode of being–in-the-world that embraces the twin entanglements of movement and being moved - Lesley Instone
Governance must therefore invest as much in institutional communication as in construction, building the cognitive and participatory infrastructures through which legitimacy is continually renewed.
Substack • Infrastructure After Permanence: From Monuments of Certainty….
This is compounded by the fact that western economies are set up for short-term profits not long-term fulfillment. As a result, we are bombarded with products, services, and marketing aimed directly at the part of our brains that crave immediate-reward products, services, and experiences.
Fred Dreier • Finding Meaning in Our Never Enough Culture
To know, tell, and create stories is a wonderous skill that keeps faith with the traditional and beauteous techniques our ancestors used when faced with the sudden mists and tripwires of living.
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
When people say “love is not enough” they mean “the emotion of love is not enough to sustain a relationship”, and of course it isn’t. The emotion cannot lift you in and out of the bathtub when you injure yourself, drive across the country with you for the sake of your dream, wrestle with hex wrenches to put together flatpack furniture for the
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Yet the perceived suspension of quarantine — like the horror vacui of the sea or the terra nullius of the wilderness — tends to obfuscate all the vectors converging at our homes and in our neighborhoods