Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudelo

designing social architecture and community experiences that build trust, generate creativity, and encourage authentic human connection. exploring the healing power of play, movement, music and other integrative practices.

“ There’s also this other thing (above right) which is functional: My favorite candleholder ever. It’s beautiful, and no one else can ever buy it, because it was made by an old Italian man in Cetara on the Amalfi coast . I want so many things in my life to look like this, and nothing does.”
from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane
on curating things with soul
Before you build a second brain, you must feel things in your gut. Without this connection to your innermost self, your note-taking system will become a digital junkyard. You’ll capture cool ideas, tweets and articles. You may even build a fancy knowledge graph in Roam. But if you don’t have gut feelings about what’s worth keeping, you’ll conf
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from Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut. by Daniel Kazandjian
gut feeling
He Made a Magazine, 95 Issues, While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic
by Nina Siegal
nytimes.com
stories to remember - a mini history archive
Procrastination is a byproduct of emotional clutter.

from Declutter Your Emotions

in my (not so fun) feels

The mind, with its thoughts, is driven by feelings. Each feeling is the cumulative derivative of many thousands of thoughts. Because most people throughout their lives repress, suppress, and try to escape from their feelings, the suppressed energy accumulates and seeks expression through psychosomatic distress, bodily disorders, emotional illnesse

from Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender a book by David R. Hawkins by David R. Hawkins

Choose work you have a natural aptitude for and a deep interest in. Develop a habit of working on your own projects; it doesn't matter what they are so long as you find them excitingly ambitious. Work as hard as you can without burning out, and this will eventually bring you to one of the frontiers of knowledge. These look smooth from a distance, b... See more

from Superlinear Returns

loving the process

when in doubt, follow your curiosity

Too often, we think of notebooks as a way-station: a necessary stop en-route to the perfected, polished work of art. But what if the notebook is the work of art? What if the process of taking notes is the point?

loving the process and Creativity

Through DJing, sampling, mixing, music embodies so much of what we’re exploring. It’s our job as builders to find references that “re-unlock” the values we’re trying to embody in the present, and turn these into new forms. Allow yourself the joy of losing yourself in the inputs; this is the nature of remixes or samples. We’re both looking at the wo... See more

from Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points

loving the process and

I threw a housewarming party after living here for one month and had dozens of people sipping wine out of every drinking vessel I owned, blessing my home with warmth and chatter that spilled out into the streets.

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker

this is a mf vibe

I feel totally overwhelmed by the state of the world, but I think music and creativity, to me, is a way of exploring what's possible. There's always something when I'm making music that I didn't see that comes from nowhere and appears. When you go to create something, you're opening yourself up to possibility. It is a way that I continuously touch ... See more

from Maggie Rogers Thinks Joy Can Be a Form of Rebellion by Mélissa Godin

the transformative power of music

from Everyone's disrupting and it's exhausting by Blackbird Spyplane