Natalie Audelo

I had a conversation a few days ago with one of the most rockstar women I know. She said: “I don’t want to lead my own thing. I want to be a first follower who passionately supports a mission I care about, and enables teams to do their best work.” Her level of awareness and conviction has lingered on my mind. It made me realize that a lot of peo... See more

Here’s Hannah Power, on leaving Instagram:

“....the weird things that have happened as a direct consequence have been, well, weird. for instance, I haven’t missed it once. not once! I thought I would. I thought I would miss sharing my curated life, my walks through the streets of Lisbon, my pics screaming I am on holiday, but I haven’t. another wei

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After seeing some 800~ events take place at The Commons i've learned 3 things:

• 1) plausible deniability: if you say we're here to make friends, friendship doesn't happen. if you say we're here to research or talk about niche topic x and y, friendships always form. same applies to dating.


• 2) communities are built from strong 1-1 relationships. as an e

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Scott argues that meaningful change often requires personal transformation – “we have to make real, tangible changes to our lives... we may have to quit our jobs, become activists at work, go back to school, start over, rethink, retool”

The reality is that you will build many worlds throughout your lifetime. Look how many you have built already, only to walk away from them, or have them dismantled, or watch them collapse without your permission. You will play many roles, you will be many people, you will try on a lot of costumes, you will exert an enormous amount of energy to put

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Listen to what Shannon said about hanging out with the tricksters and the rascals and the artists — make sure to stay with those who are in on the joke, the delight, the wild creativity of this place.

Dear Love, what would you have me know about how to build a new world?

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Oh honey, you ambitious little fire ant! You don’t have to build a new world! There is already a world right here which we have built for you, and it is more of a playground than a battleground, if only you learn to see it the right way. Can you see the world as some

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The writer Jack Self summed it up much better than I can: “living through collapse isn’t a factual statement, but an emotional one. It feels like we are approaching the end of a specific social contract. Modernity is a project founded on patriarchal domination, on linear time, infinite extraction and unstoppable accumulation. In its five centuries,... See more