Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
"as I went on to discover, each time I wrote a book on some subject outside my immediate field it gave me courage and incentive to do another one that was perhaps even farther outside the narrow range of my training. As I did so, of course, I found that I had to educate myself. When the time came, I read biology, medicine, and geology. I collected... See more
Shane Parrish • What Can We Learn From the Prolific Mr. Asimov?
He was an affable curmudgeon, a refreshing truth-teller who inadvertently imbued a sense of both irony and hope in every sentence.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
The greatest benefit of a brand strategy based on a prediction is that it naturally spells out the business strategy . The expert patient, the third space, the future of movement – all of these predictions lay out strong parameters for the business itself.
Jasmine Bina • There Is No Brand Strategy Without a Prediction
“They dictate business model, product roadmap, UX, values, org chart and so on, in ways that technologies alone cannot. And when brand strategy begets business strategy, there is a beautiful symmetry that only makes both parts stronger.”
By conventional wisdom, hope is empowering, noble, even audacious. In the face of threats to democracy and the slow catastrophe of climate change, we are told, it is vital not to give up hope. Yet as an episode of the sitcom Ted Lasso reminds us: “It’s the hope that kills you.” To hope is to risk the agony of defeat. And what good does hope do as
... See moreKieran Setiya • What’s the Use of Hope?
As our current civilization begins to unravel on account of its internal failings, the strands that kept it tightly wound also get loosened. Every year that we head closer to catastrophe—as greater climate-related disasters rear up, as the outrages of racial and economic injustice become even more egregious, and as life for most people becomes... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
What I’ve found since 2020 is that there is some relief in acknowledging the Here. 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
... See moreRosie Spinks • How I Became 'Collapse Aware'
But the world is not made that way. Ideas live into the architecture of culture. They take up residence and make a home. Then they stain the carpets of our minds with spilt drinks. And then one decides to protect itself from outsiders and puts locks on the doors. Ideas are not tidy guests.