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.

Harvard Innovation Labs | Shared Harvest
innovationlabs.harvard.edu
building a new world and cool concepts
Today’s cult of convenience fails to acknowledge that difficulty is a constitutive feature of human experience. Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. We are becoming people who care mainly or only about outcomes. We ar
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from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu
So, on your worry list, write down the best outcome for each problem, the worst outcome, and the most likely outcome. Then add what you would do in each instance. This makes the source of worry specific and gives you a management plan.
from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks
in my (not so fun) feels
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
Optimize for legacy, not empire. Empires die because they’re alone, legacies live because they involve others.
-OH, on building teams and brand communities
redefining success and building a new world
People exist on a spectrum between fast-twitch and slow-twitch thinking.

Fast-twitch people speak fast, work fast, and crave novelty. Socially, they're quick and witty. Throw a problem their way and they'll come up with 3–5 solutions in a matter of minutes. They're the people you want in the room when you're brainstorming an idea.

Slow-twitch people ... See more
building great teams
“beauty is supposed to serve power’s interests.”
from Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria
power structures and dynamics
Millions of people — and white people in particular — would rather endure physical isolation, generalized loneliness, caregiving exhaustion, and financial precarity than relinquish some of their societal power. That’s a far less optimistic foundational myth than individualism. But it’s a far more honest one.
from The Dark Heart of Individualism
power structures and dynamics
Alchemize the pickle. You will be relentlessly confronted with conundrums, situations, pickles, and dumpster fires for which you do not yet have the knowledge or skill set because you have not had to navigate it before.4 Take a moment to reflect on why, check whether your privilege has anything to do with it, then send a sweet, loving, and forgivin... See more
from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker
loving the process and
Transitions, down moments, and rest have never been my strengths. I think if I had been more forgiving and attentive to what’s quietest, I might have been less reckless with myself and others when I was young.
from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us

Harvard Innovation Labs | Shared Harvest

from The Tyranny of Convenience by Tim Wu

from How to Worry Less and Be Happier by Arthur C. Brooks

from LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Pico Iyer!

from Dating After Divorce Wasn't What They Said It'd Be — Gloria

from The Dark Heart of Individualism

from Call me a homebody. by Izabella Zucker

from Rachel DeWoskin Tells Us