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.

A big problem with bubbles is the reflexive association between wealth and wisdom, so a bunch of crazy ideas are taken seriously because a temporarily rich person said it.
from A Few Laws of Getting Rich by Morgan Housel
Only that nothing works out the way you plan, which is a blessing every hour. Life always takes a different form, if only because life will always be more imaginative — deeper, wiser, more surprising — than you are.
from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!
loving the process
I now feel confident that when executive hires fail, the most common reason is that the CEO didn’t take the time to specifically and clearly define what they were looking for at the start. They just assumed that one CMO is the same as another CMO.
from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham
“The modern man is always claiming a self-sufficiency which he is unable to achieve. He constantly compares himself with other people and, afraid that they might be superior, he secretly copies their manners and borrows their desires.”
from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau
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
There’s nothing more magical than watching someone do things they didn’t know they were capable of.
from Developing high performers
Culture, in compelling but unspoken ways, dictates the proven, acceptable methods by which members of the group address recurrent problems. And culture defines the priority given to different types of problems. It can be a powerful management tool.
from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
Company Culture
Defining time well spent for yourself is one of the most important tasks of going day to day in this life.
Morrison’s novels are all motivated by an idea: some complex knotty inquiry that she could work through in the space of a novel. As Morrison described it, the idea for Beloved began when she read a newspaper article about Margaret Garner—a 19th-century woman who fled slavery with her children. Facing capture, Garner killed one of her children and t... See more
from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved

from A Few Laws of Getting Rich by Morgan Housel

from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!

from “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions by Molly Graham

from René Girard, mimetic desire, and society's biggest rat race by Leo Nasskau

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

from Developing high performers

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved