Natalie Audelo
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yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
When we understand our consumer choices not as an expression of our uniqueness, but instead as a reflection of our demonstrated social preferences and aspirations, we end up learning even more about ourselves—and who we are trying to become. The bigger question is: What will it cost you?
The pervasive myth about our consumer choices
We have the agency to demand better, and by doing so can begin to form a real sense of taste. Not just in a performative “I’m better than others” sense, but because crafting it can bring you personal fulfillment not defined by others, or marketing teams, or trends. By consuming more consciously and with intention , by prioritizing quality over quan... See more
Mark Sabino • It’s All Sweetgreen
If I had to put the recipe for genius into one sentence, that might be it: to have a disinterested obsession with something that matters.
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
But, functional divisions grow into fiefdoms, and what was once a convenient division of labor mutates into the “stovepipes” that all but cut off contact between functions. The result: analysis of the most important problems in a company, the complex issues that cross functional lines, becomes a perilous or nonexistent exercise.
Peter M. Senge • The Fifth Discipline
Our lives are bereft of ways to see people in the low-effort, regular, and repeating ways our brains were designed to connect through.
Rosie Spinks • The Friendship Problem
J Curves are stretch opportunities where you take on a role outside your comfort zone. In the best case, these roles make you feel like you’re on a whole different planet. They’re high risk, but if you succeed, they accelerate your growth like nothing else can.
These opportunities can be transformative for someone’s career trajectory but they are al... See more
These opportunities can be transformative for someone’s career trajectory but they are al... See more
Developing high performers
The world can feel very out of control, especially for younger people. And controlling your own body is a coping mechanism. Part of the solution, if there is one, is to educate about this. There's so much out there right now about diet culture, and no one is really talking about beauty culture in the same way.
At the same time, a lot of this would b... See more
At the same time, a lot of this would b... See more
Leslie Price • Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry? — Gloria
- 1) plausible deniability: if you say we're here to make friends, friendship doesn't happen. if you say we're here to research or talk about niche topic x and y, friendships always form. same applies to dating.
- 2) communities are built from strong 1-1 relationships. as an e
40 pieces of "advice"
All of everything in us comes from somewhere else. And we get to take those elements, and I think I use the word in the book, re-present. We have this information, and we get it, and we get to mix it up and reform it and re-present it back to the world. And sometimes we re-present it back to the world in a way that no one’s seen it before. And it’
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