Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
Schopenhauer loved metaphor, and his counsel starts with the example of a mason: The man is “employed on the building of a house” but “may be quite ignorant of its general design.” Because of this arrangement, Schopenhauer suggested, the mason was stuck in the daily details of his work instead of seeing it as part of a grand design. And so it is wi... See more
Arthur C. Brooks • Schopenhauer’s Advice on How to Achieve Great Things
Infrastructure might be built by hands but culture is built by tongues. The person who changes the cultural conversation is someone who is able to identify truth and describe it so others can not only understand but participate in the story as a conscious being themselves.
In addition to tracking the impact your program is having on the organizations you’re supporting and the beneficiaries they serve, track the halo effect your program is having on your own community .
I regret not integrating questions around how the existence of Airbnb.org impacted community members' decision to join Airbnb and their desire to cont... See more
I regret not integrating questions around how the existence of Airbnb.org impacted community members' decision to join Airbnb and their desire to cont... See more
David Spinks • How to Activate your Community for Impact
stories trapped in my cells, emotions in my fascia: there was information hidden in my body, and I didn’t know it.
Anne Berube • The Burnout Antidote
But, functional divisions grow into fiefdoms, and what was once a convenient division of labor mutates into the “stovepipes” that all but cut off contact between functions. The result: analysis of the most important problems in a company, the complex issues that cross functional lines, becomes a perilous or nonexistent exercise.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Your vocation, in the mid-20th-century world I was born into, was your job title. This was such a diminishment of us. We are called not merely to be professionals but to be friends, neighbors, colleagues, family, citizens, lovers of the world. We are called to creativity and caring and play for which we will never be paid — and which will make life... See more
Three Callings for Your Life and for Our Time | The On Being Project
Many people have long wondered why the Grateful Dead succeeded in creating a world of Deadheads. It turns out that’s because the people who allocated tickets understood familiar strangers. If you bought a ticket for a Grateful Dead show in Miami, they kept a record of who you were seated near. Then, if you bought a ticket for the Nashville show, th... See more
danah boyd • Knitting a Healthy Social Fabric.
