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 do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See more
from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
loving the process
We will start to realize that being chained to your mobile phone is a low-status behavior, similar to smoking.
from The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher by Max Fisher
As I said, most companies and most interviews focus more on the question: can this person do what we need? But if you’re trying to recruit the best talent in the world, it needs to start with them. Who are they? What do they love doing? What are their ambitions? How does their past shape what they want for their future? What are they insecure about... See more
from Fit
building great work cultures and building great teams
Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

David Foster Wallace,
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from carry yourself lightly by Nix 🕊
loving the process
The new look aims to encourage browsing, which Mr. Daunt believes improves customer satisfaction. “If you just want to buy a book, the guys in Seattle will sell you a book,” Mr. Daunt said. “The enjoyment and the social experience of that engagement with books in a bookstore? That’s our game.”
from Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free
Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed. You were so busy focusing on how much you could carry, you never realized you could run this fast.
from 3-2-1: The power of imperfection, the secret to a good morning, and more
loving the process
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
Here is my definition of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is the persistent, unrealistic, fear-inducing, fucking ridiculous belief that you are supposed to magically eliminate all variables for failure before trying anything new in the presence of others.

So next time that feeling creeps in, try this HoJo (that’s what we insiders call the place... See more
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden—to take care of your mind. The garden metaphor is particularly apt: taking care of your mind involves cultivating your curiosity (the seeds), growing your knowledge (the trees), and producing new thoughts (the fruits).
from You and Your Mind Garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle

from The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World a book by Max Fisher by Max Fisher

from Fit

from carry yourself lightly by Nix 🕊

from Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free

from 3-2-1: The power of imperfection, the secret to a good morning, and more

from Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points

from You and Your Mind Garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff