Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Ideas are discovered in wonderlands.
places that stir up awe within.
To enter into a wonderland, you have to experience things for the first time.
Like going to Disney world for the first time. Awe is stirred. And this is where ideas can be formed.
To be full of wonder means you are not focused on self. When’s the last time you felt in awe about
As appealing as it sounds, people are scared to think like a philosopher. Social media has turned us all into public relations professionals who pursue likeability instead of truth.
David Perell • How Philosophers Think
in a culture of exponentially increasing overload, it’s through these nodes in the information ecosystem, these human sensemakers, human synapses if you will, that this very text or image or video finds its way into our mental pool of resources.
The Marginalian • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Everyday Utopia: What 2,000 Years of Wild Experiments Can Teach Us About the Good Life
Kristen R. Ghodsee • 1 highlight
amazon.com
“While I believe my son’s life may be materially worse off than my own, I think about how it could possibly be better too – psychologically, spiritually, and collectively. I think about how many of the social problems we lament – the mental health crisis among young people, especially young men; the cruel isolation of new motherhood; the
... See moreDense Discovery • 319 / Looking for Comfort in Collapse
Through their membership programs, brands also get the opportunity to gather data and feedback from the conversations that customers are having with the brand, or through the platforms it provides for them.
Thingtesting • Why more direct-to-consumer brands are exploring membership models
what’s happened during the COVID era as the continuation of a trend that began in the middle of the 20th century. When city dwellers were largely confined to crowded tenements, they were forced out into the world, which often meant hanging out with strangers in taverns. But as time went on, leisure became privatized. Living conditions improved;... See more
Allie Conti • We Really Should Hang Out More Often
In June 1983, Alexander Grothendieck sits down to write the preface to a mathematical manuscript called Pursuing Stacks . He is concerned by what he sees as a tacit disdain for the more “feminine side” of mathematics (which is related to what I’m calling the solitary creative state) in favor of the “hammer and chisel” of the finished theorem. By
... See moreHenrik Karlsson • Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
It's interesting that this is labeled the feminine side of math?