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.

What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that engage us will do so through story, craft, and a deeper and more sophisticated sense of meaning. The creator economy was ultimately driven by content (enabled by ubiquitous access to content creation and... See more
on meaning making
One of the things that surprised me the most was to see that for any piece of work being shared, designers would put together a keynote deck for it. It could be the smallest thing, like a quick look at the latest work progression, or big presentations, of course. At Apple, designers use the power of storytelling to influence others, instead of just
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from What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple by Andrea Pacheco
building great work cultures
We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
In filling the well, think magic. Think delight. Think fun. Do not think duty. Do not do what you should do—spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text. Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery. A mystery draws us in, leads us on, lures us. (A duty may numb us out, turn us off, tune us ou... See more
from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
living a creative life
One of the best ways you can show productivity trust = modeling and embracing “blank time.”
from The Root of Over-Meeting Culture
good leadership
Their way of adapting, the way they have to be resilient, is through mutual care, listening to others, accepting difference and pluralism, and being, in core ways, other-focused. The acceleration and accumulation of overlapping crises made our interdependencies — otherwise masked in slow violence and harm — more obvious. Technology and social media... See more
from The Resilience Myth
building a new world
What Lawrence’s life demonstrates so powerfully is that it actually takes a daily effort to be free. To be free is not the result of a moment’s decisive action but a project to be constantly renewed. More than anything else, freedom requires tenaciousness. There are intervals of repose but there will never come a state of definitive rest where you ... See more
from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon
this hurdle I have to jump over each time I write: How can I say this more crisply? When I write (which is really just to say: when I think) it all boils down to one simple, but utterly excruciating question: What am I really trying to say here?
from distillation by Isabel Hazan
good questions
Entrepreneur Cindy Gallop on how to build a successful business:

“There is a formula for success in business, and it goes like this: You set out to find the very best talent in the marketplace, and then give them a compelling and inspirational vision of what you want them to achieve for you and the company. Then you empower them to achieve those goa... See more
from 3-2-1: On inspiration, how to lose, and building a successful business by James Clear
good leadership

from What I Learned as a Product Designer at Apple by Andrea Pacheco

from The Dark Heart of Individualism

from The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

from The Root of Over-Meeting Culture

from The Resilience Myth

from It takes a daily effort to be free - Austin Kleon

from distillation by Isabel Hazan

from 3-2-1: On inspiration, how to lose, and building a successful business by James Clear