Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
She said she was trying to capture two things. First, that people’s varied life experiences affect their health by wearing down their bodies. And second, she said: “People are not just passive victims of these horrible exposures. They withstand them. They struggle against them. These are people who weather storms.”
People seem to instinctively
... See moreAkilah Johnson • Stress Is Weathering Our Bodies From the Inside Out
It means rescuing little ideas that gleam for a second in our soul then disappear. Coaxing them back. It means attention to not this or that but possibly both or some other way entirely. This isn’t necessarily easy, being so conditioned as we are to yes or no, black or white. And sometimes that third position is not what many would call a logical... See more
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
it’s also moments of shared positive natural awe that can be our reunions.
ZINE • Will Smith, Cultural Synchrony & A Climate Crisis
There is debate over what role individual actions play in the climate crisis, given that fossil fuel companies, large corporations and governments are responsible for the overwhelming majority of planet-heating carbon emissions. Focusing on an individual’s impact is a useless, guilt-inducing distraction, detractors say. They point to marketers for... See more
New York Times • ‘OK, Doomer’ and the Climate Advocates Who Say It’s Not Too Late
Something moved them, irked them, inspired them, possessed them, and then electricity shot everywhere in their brain and then—crucially—they laid fingers on keys and put that electricity inside the computer. Writing is a costly signal of caring about something. Good writing, in fact, might be a sign of pathological caring.
Adam Mastroianni • 28 Slightly Rude Notes on Writing
Ecological Organisations pt 2: Being Ecological (Edgeless And Edged, And Deeply Relational)
annamarieswan.substack.com
What would it look like if rather than protesting about the things that are wrong, dysfunctional and broken, we set out to give ourselves what futurist Stuart Candy calls ‘visceral tastes’ of the future, experiences of a positive, delightful future, that transform our sense of what’s possible the way The Sultan’s Elephant did?
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
intellectually humble leaders who are open to alternative views may motivate others to contribute more ideas to discussions.
Greater Good • What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?
on humility and