Keely Adler

If Reddit were a co-op, or even just a regular nonprofit, it could probably operate usefully forever. Oh well! At least we still have Quora, where someone asked “ I am facing 30 years to life in federal prison. Should I take some clothes to prison? ” and every response told them to flee to Mexico

Descartes formulated what became the foundation of the modern world: Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But what happened to the body in that sentence? What happened to the heart, the breath, the pulse?

Exploring where impediments are hard, where they are soft and when they can be ignored is powerful.

If this all seems small and insignificant in the face of what I’m writing about here, I get it. We have been trained to think this stuff doesn’t add up to much. But consider that over the last five to ten years, almost every smart and well-credentialed climate thinker I read says the same thing: the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best

Here is the hill I am prepared to die on: we as a culture have to stop believing that the goal is to eliminate discomfort. It’s time to dig deeper and learn to use these states rather than be used by them. To recognize that sometimes, feeling like shit isn't a bug in the system — it's a feature.

The Boomer generation was dealt with outstandingly good economic cards. We’re living in a different world now, but the stories we tell ourselves, the goals we chase after, and the ideals we compare ourselves to—e.g. a steady career trajectory—still often come from a time that is now increasingly seen as an anomaly. It’s time to move on!