Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
you cannot optimize for resilience.
hanging out as a way to reclaim time as something other than a raw ingredient to be converted into productivity
A public investment is legitimate not because it keeps people busy, but because it secures continuity of life-supporting systems — energy, mobility, water, data, health — through cascading shocks. The public return lies in the prevention of systemic collapse, not in the volume of concrete poured or payrolls supported.
One thing that sets these intensely creative individuals apart, as far as I can tell, is that when sitting with their thoughts they are uncommonly willing to linger in confusion. To be curious about that which confuses. Not too rapidly seeking the safety of knowing or the safety of a legible question, but waiting for a more powerful and subtle
... See moreBigger breeds conformity and homogeneity, not creativity and experimentation.