Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
With Instagram there was the idea that my life is constantly available for perception and evaluation by other people. I had these thoughts: I’d upload a photo and then I’d view my Instagram story and try to pretend to be somebody else—a stranger—and imagine how they’d see me. I’d be trying to present myself to be legible in a certain way to... See more
Charlie Warzel • How to Leave an Internet That’s Always in Crisis
Teaching has been too closely associated with the transmission of knowledge as an object, the exchange of information from someone who knows to someone who seeks to know.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Moving beyond "we brief, you deliver" to collaborative intelligence creation.
zoe scaman • The Work
Climate collapse, institutional breakdown, technological disruption, cultural fragmentation - these challenges require strategic intelligence that's regenerative, not extractive. Collaborative, not competitive. Long-term, not myopic.
The transformation is already happening. In the margins, in the experiments, in the quiet rebellions of strategists
... See morezoe scaman • The Work
We’ve come to believe that people who specialize early and narrowly—like Tiger Woods, who was already on national television golfing at age 2—have an insurmountable advantage. But the research shows that those stories are in fact the rare exception en route to success, and typically confined to repetitive domains, in which work next year will look... See more
Slate • General Education Has a Bad Rap
Stuff has agency. Inanimate matter is not inert. Everything is always doing something
Morgan Meis • The Philosopher Who Believes in Living Things
Regulation isn’t self-care . It’s not a wellness accessory or a personality trait. It’s capacity . It governs access to discernment, creativity, authority, and sustained contribution. A chronically dysregulated nervous system narrows perception and constrains choice. It increases reactivity and encourages compliance. It makes endurance feel
... See moreSubstack • The Workplace Runs on Dysregulated Women
One word does not capture the thing. One language does not hold all things. More words and different words mean more and different perspectives, which is an immediate widening of our world.