Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
This creates the impression that burnout originates within individual people.
The Beautiful Truth • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout
An array of groups offering support to people struggling with eco-anxiety have popped up around the world in recent years. There are climate cafes, for example, or NGOs such as the Good Grief Network, which has a 10-step program that, according to its website, aims to "metabolize collective grief, eco-anxiety, and other heavy emotions" to help... See more
Welle • How to cope with eco-anxiety
although mental illness is global, the experience of mental illness cannot be separated from culture. If there is a surge of Anglospheric gloom among teenagers, we have to study the culture that young people are consuming with their technology. In the past generation, the English-speaking world, led by the U.S., has experimented with a novel
... See moreWork in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
What changes the world in the end is the generative ideas, not the detailed blueprints. But the blueprints are useful tools for thinking with—they help to clarify ideas and can show unexpected consequences. Developing them is part of being positively engaged with the world. It’s easy to be against things and easy to be a critic; much harder to
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
I think a lot about the limitations of language and how we interpret the language we use every day to talk about the senses.
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
Social experiments live and die by Network Effects, the prize for dealing with all of the human messiness upfront for the few social experiments that make it to the other side. Network effects can become so strong that it doesn’t matter how bad the bits a company produces are, people will stick around (ahem, Facebook).
Packy McCormick • Social vs. Science Experiments
Web3 supercharges our ability to build imagination infrastructure for multiplayer futures.
Keely Adler • Multiplayer Futures
TikTok has become a place for middle-aged and older women to share their aging journeys joyfully. Amelia Crook (@misplacedstyle) has launched a startup after reclaiming her style (and gray hair). @StyleLikeU, a platform dedicated to the self-acceptance revolution, ran a campaign on Defying Ageism. They interviewed beloved style icon Stacy London... See more
Amanda R. Martinez • Many People Have A Fear Of Aging; These Helpers Ask: What If We Aged With Joy Instead?
Mass Observation is a social research project. Everyday Britains send in observations about their everyday lives. It's a great resource for getting behind the headlines and into how people really feel about culturally significant moments.