Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Let me be clear: I've been exercising regularly my entire adult life. I've logged hundreds if not thousands of hours on the meditation cushion and counting. I am incredibly well hydrated! I'm not writing this from some place of resistance to developing healthy habits. I’m writing this as someone who’s done the work and still wakes up some days
... See moreSara Campbell • Tiny Revolutions №114: F*ck Happiness
my goal is simply to create a space to wander around
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
50-year-old women tend to know who they are and what they want. They are not alien to their own lives, roaming around confused about how everything got to be the way it is now, as if freshly emerged from cryogenic chambers.
New York Times • The Rise of the Over-50 Fashion Mentors (Published 2022)
Honest naming is a kind of ethical responsibility. We have a moral duty not to simply accept a harmful narrative, even if it comes cloaked in positive associations as a result of tradition, efforts by the powerful to preserve that power, or ignorance. We must not cave in to peer pressure from dead people.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
At a time when many consumers haven’t fully returned to real-life shopping, hyperphysical retail serves as a draw for younger consumers. Some 56 per cent of global Gen Z shoppers head to physical stores for a fun experience, according to a 2018 survey by IBM and the National Retail Federation, which interviewed 15,600 global consumers between the... See more
Vogue Business • From Jacquemus to Balenciaga: Luxury fashion brands go hyperphysical
As we get older, we seek a bigger picture than a school boy. We learn our lines and something about the rest of the world around us, the community, the economy, the profession, we occupy. We become more worldly. Until recently this was enough for a lot of people. All they really cared about was a rough idea of the world around them. A big picture,... See more
Grant McCracken • What if culture is the solution: Big Pictures 005
Ecological Organisations pt 2: Being Ecological (Edgeless And Edged, And Deeply Relational)
annamarieswan.substack.com
ideologies are more like memetic infections than philosophical choices: self-replicating ecologies of ideas looking for the right psychological conditions to parasitise their hosts and reproduce.