Natalie Audelo
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yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
The English word “company” comes from the French compaigne—the sharing of bread, the same root as “companion.” Interestingly, the oldest Swedish term for business, narings liv, means “nourishment for life,” and the oldest Chinese symbol for business translates as “life meaning.” Perhaps when we rediscover organizations as living systems, we will al
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
As the world grows increasingly fractured, taking the time to engage with strangers has become even more important. The artist and graphic journalist Wendy MacNaughton has created a simple but powerful way for people to connect in an isolated world.
In this audio essay, she shares how she brings people together by having them draw each other in publ... See more
In this audio essay, she shares how she brings people together by having them draw each other in publ... See more
Opinion | A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times
Why do we always remember our childhood friends? Why do so many people look back on college with fondness? Why are so many married couples nostalgic for those hardscrabble early years, with the crappy jobs and tiny apartment and borrowed baby clothes? It’s because, while those environments were materially constrained (we had fewer choices), they yi... See more
David Roberts • The medium chill
We don’t build community .
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
How Communities Emerge
Visa’s founding CEO Dee Hock had a realization. He saw clearly that it was “beyond the power of reason to design an organization” capable of coordinating a global network of financial transactions of the sort that had started to develop.7 Yet, he also knew that nature regularly achieves just that. Why, he wondered, couldn’t “a human organization wo
... See morePeter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Your success here will depend entirely on how successfully you can tell stories, and how successfully other people can repeat those stories, both to themselves and others.Your North Star here has to be: are other people retelling this story successfully?Port cities around the world are more similar to each other than they are to their inland counte... See more
Alex Danco • World Building
And thus our tradition began. Every weekend, we would bring our folding chairs out onto the street – we had to make do since our house doesn’t have a stoop – and enjoy our caffeine. As we saw people entering or exiting their homes, we'd enthusiastically wave them down, introduce ourselves, and write down their names in our shared spreadsheet. I wor... See more
Patty Smith • Stoop Coffee: How a Simple Idea Transformed My Neighborhood
And there are consistent patterns that emerge from observing other organisms—winning strategies for thriving that are nearly ever-present across the Tree of Life. The Biomimicry Institute outlined a number of them in what they call Life’s Principles. There are 27 in total, but I’ll give you a taste with their six overarching principles: 1. Evolve t... See more
The Overview: Life's Genius
It is actually an extraordinarily powerful skill to ask the “stupid” questions that
everyone else is afraid to ask. Stupid questions have the ability to create clarity in places where people didn’t even know there was confusion.