Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
A value system is fostered through storytelling and negotiation in forums of public discourse.
Sam Hart • Positive Sum Worlds: Remaking Public Goods
The latter may sound silly, but it’s indicative of where a belief in manifesting can easily end up: that everything bad that happens is also your fault. You just didn’t manifest your life well enough.
Stuart McGurk • Making dreams come true: inside the new age world of manifesting
This sacred communal knowledge, along with other ephemera of youth—the blueprints for a cootie catcher, the words to a jump-rope rhyme, the rhythm of a clapping game—is central to the experie
nce of being a kid."
Julie Beck • Why Did We All Have the Same Childhood?
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation.”
E.M. Cioran
E.M. Cioran
Here Are 52 of My Favorite Quotes
the problem with the fanaticization of politics
What if instead of waking up refreshed and starting every day with perfectly curated mornings and spotless emotional clarity, there's benefit to being an anxious, cranky, fearful, jittery wreck some days? What if we start recognizing that the jagged edges and rough mornings aren’t signs of failure, but essential features of fully lived life? After
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
History can get stuck and can go into reverse. Powerful interests will do whatever they can to resist, divert, confuse or disrupt trends that they find threatening. Imagination is one of the weapons with which to confront them—imagination that is compelling, rigorous and thought through.
Geoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Bringing about the world we want to live in, the world we want to leave to our children is, substantially, the work of the imagination, or what educational reformer John Dewey describes as ‘the ability to look at things as if they could be otherwise’.18
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
Semioticians rely on a certain amount of gut and leaps of faith beyond obvious logic. An advertised balance of science and art, and a recognition of a uniquely trained “sense” helps showcase rigor and justify the role this work can provide.