Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
As Flora Bowley wrote in her book The Art of Aliveness: “Creative adventures can be as messy or involved as you choose, but they don’t need to be fancy, groundbreaking, or even take a lot of time to be valid and effective.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Creative aliveness: turning life into a creative adventure
There is a secret formula hidden deep in nature’s intelligence, which catalyzed each of life’s great evolutionary leaps over billions of years and forms the basis of all ecosystems. It’s captured in the simple but profound concept of mutually beneficial symbiosis: a relationship between two parties to which each contributes something the other... See more
Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?
What TikTok teens, white collar workers marooned in home offices, and the gatekept super-rich all have in common is the kind of physical isolation, if not the sense of doom, that makes a person desperate just to feel something.
time • Welcome to the Era of Unapologetic Bad Taste
Boredom, lust, embarrassment, resentment, confusion, euphoria, anger, ambivalence… everything is amplified in the febrile, white-hot heat of adolescence. As we navigate this perilous passage between childhood and adulthood, we’re unwittingly forging the neural pathways, habits and identities that we’ll likely spend the ensuing years attempting to
... See moreDazed • Sit Down With Hollywood's Hottest New Star
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'
To be clear, I’d rather live in a world where corporations and billionaires put their money toward some public benefit than live in a world where they operate exactly the same but make zero social impact. That said, adding a charitable initiative to a business model that relies on extractive and harmful practices is a bit like frosting a rotten
... See moreVincent Sanchez-Gomez • The Case for a Values-Oriented Approach to Impact
• post-tragic (meaning and agency on the other side of despair)
• post-extrinsic (driven by new societal purposes)
• post-rational (open to ways of knowing that transcend and include the intellect),
• post-exploitation (reflective about the uses and abuses of power)
• post-tribal (whole-hearted togetherness in a world of love and power; an expansive
... See moreCreative Destruction • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #40
Through our ability to acknowledge the layers of loss, we can truly discover our capacity to respond, to protect, and to restore what has been damaged.
Francis Weller • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Maybe that's why "are you okay" is so destabilizing. Not just because it sees your effort. But because it breaks the contract. It admits that the performance is a performance. And if one person stops pretending, the whole fragile architecture of mutual pretending is exposed.