Keely Adler
@keelyadler
brand strategist by trade; time-traveling futurist at heart. core team @ RADAR. find me most places @keels223.
Keely Adler
Any national approach to rebuilding the imagination must take access to nature seriously, and must also recognise the power of bringing more nature to where people live, to a ‘rewilding’ of our towns, cities and neighbourhoods.
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
As Anaïs Nin wrote, “When we go deeply into the personal, we go beyond the personal. We achieve something that is collective.”
Suleika Jaouad • The Book of Alchemy
There is an audacity in focusing on the possible in an age of major personal and societal impossibilities.
Vlad P. Glăveanu • Possibility Studies: A Manifesto
The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
Russell Ackoffthesystemsthinker.com
systems thinking and
thoughts on the creative tensions of Disneyland: between art and commerce, the child vs. the adult, what you can see vs. what’s hidden, and surrendering vs. control.
Austin Kleon • Imagineering
the assortment of technologies structuring our experience—including, for example, AI assistants, predictive algorithms, automated tools, and smart devices—serve to reanimate the seemingly mute, mechanical, and unresponsive material landscape of technological modernity.
Substack • LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment
If we think that burnout happens because of weaknesses or vulnerabilities of an individual worker, then we are less likely to assess work environments and work cultures that cultivate burnout as a logical outcome to poor working environments, hostile work cultures for those with marginalized identities, unreasonable work expectations, ineffective... See more
The Beautiful Truth • Self-Care is Not the Solution for Burnout
Consumers, too, have become more aware of the mechanics of brand-building. As a result, companies are under pressure to simulate authenticity by leaning into more personalized forms of communication.
Vox • Brands want to be more than your friend. They want community.
Placemaking and Belonging