Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
In other words, good writing isn’t about sophisticated sentences or complex ideas; it’s about unifying all elements into a coherent whole. You can write a poignant, lyrical, oblique sonnet about the rain, but if your purpose is to inform newspaper readers about the weather forecast, that’s not good writing.
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
Words and sentences must, by necessity, come only one at a time in linear, logical order. Systems happen all at once. They are connected not just in one direction, but in many directions simultaneously. To discuss them properly, it is necessary somehow to use a language that shares some of the same properties as the phenomena under discussion.
Donella H. Meadows • Thinking in Systems
By design, the program relapses to a rhetorical median, its deviations mechanical whereas ours are organic.
Laura Hartenberger • What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing
When we try to change the world, when we create containers for work, initiate relationships, or chart strategic paths forward, we are always battling assumptions. What myths underlie those assumptions? How can those myths be ripped out from under the lies they prop up? How can inevitability—a construct of the wicked—be ripped apart?
Kelly Hayes • Let This Radicalize You
Ideas are living things. I am suspicious about separating the intellect and the emotions. I am more comfortable with them being entangled.
Nora Bateson • Small Arcs of Larger Circles
American hunting and British hunting are totally different pastimes. And it shows in their jackets.
Ken Sakatasubstack.comEven if these difficulties are overcome, however, there is still the problem of carbon deception. This is the second main challenge involved in knowing when we’ve gotten to net zero: the presence of dishonest actors in the system.
Holly Jean Buck • Decarbonization as a Service
Nevertheless, the move toward secularism has allowed the white, Western world to see ourselves as modern—and any foreign land, government, or people that do not embrace secularism as not modern, and therefore, other. Secular nations view themselves as superior to nations that still have religion involved in their governments—even if those cultures’... See more
Religiously Blonde • The Pitfalls of Believing in Separation of Church and State
We need platforms that monitor our world for the sake of collective management of a shared commons—not platforms that measure our world for the sake of profiting from the data created from it, extracting value from the digital layer the same way that value is extracted from the mines, forests, and soils of our physical world.