Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
trend cycles and
Often times, when there’s a discussion about generalists, the words “bridge” or “translator” will pop-up.
Patrick Tanguay • Generalists
First, some grounding facts: 1 out of 5 pregnancies ends in abortion and 1 out of 4 women has had an abortion by the time she is 45. The majority of those who seek out abortions are experiencing poverty and were using a form of contraception in the month that they got pregnant. Two-thirds of them have already given birth before. Over half of... See more
Courtney Martin • Building a culture of care in America
in an unstable, unpredictable world, ‘home’ becomes an increasingly fluid and emotional concept.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
multi-species anthropologist Anne Galloway’s work, who was simply asking “What if we deny that human beings are exceptional? What if we stop speaking and listening only to ourselves?
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
politics as an exercise in personal wish fulfillment rather than as a site for collective action.
José Marichal • Trust an algorithm, or trust your neighbor?
systems thinking and
In major publications, personal Substack newsletters, and, of course, on X, everyone has offered their own diagnoses; “young men aren’t reading, so how can they be expected to write?”; “the publishing industry is disproportionately women-dominated”; “Andrew Tate says books are ‘for losers who are afraid to learn from life.’” I find the writer Andre
... See moreDirt • Dirt: Man of the Year
When these narrative shifts occur among communities and groups of people, new potentials arise. People are capable of taking actions that defy systems of oppression and popular expectations. But to ready people for such moments, we must do more than raise the alarm about injustice.