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.

Jonas Salk, inventor of the polio vaccine, said the main motivation of his life was, “To be a good ancestor.”
loving the process
Investment Principles recollection by some of history’s best investors.
note · by Juan Orbea on Investment Principles.pdf
I’ve concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn’t dollars but the individual people whose lives I’ve touched. I think that’s the way it will work for us all. Don’t worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people. This is my final recommendation: T
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from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
redefining success and
Write little phrases that will “open a door to a scene”: Often, we can’t see our entire project in its full form, but we can see little pieces of it. A curtain moving in the morning light, for example. A man sneaking around a house. Jotting down these little hints “open a door” for your future writer-self.
from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved
the art of writing and building my own language library
Embracing embodied exercise is taking the courageous step to welcome the full breadth of our experiences and unlock the full power of our bodies. The way we approach activities like exercise is often how we live our lives. We can grind through it chasing external accomplishments and rushing to the next milestone. Or, we can deeply connect to our ow... See more
from Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise by Sam Sager
loving the process
Chouinard and his business partner, Tom Frost, made what would become a legendary decision to shift away from pitons. It foreshadowed many other decisions Chouinard would make over the next fifty years, each with a similar pattern: Come to grips with damage you’re doing, set bright lines about how you’ll shift your business to reduce that damage, t... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
A decade ago, I was only a couple of years into my venture career. I believed that growth and progress were synonymous – in an industry where scale was the ultimate target, platforms that achieved it were glorified. A decade later, I have learned that success is more nuanced, and we have to take accountability for the outcomes we encourage. New dom... See more
from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele
Squad culture is the antithesis of neoliberal individualism. Millennials are healing from decades of irony poisoning, rediscovering what it's like to have generative, exploratory relationships with one another.
from Squad Wealth by Other Internet
A world in which artists think like entrepreneurs, he writes in the Atlantic, is one where “You’re a musician and a photographer and a poet; a storyteller and a dancer and a designer ... which means that you haven’t got time for your 10,000 hours in any of your chosen media. But technique or expertise is not the point. The point is versatility. Lik... See more
from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings

note · by Juan Orbea on Investment Principles.pdf

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from Toni Morrison's Research Notes for Beloved

from Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise by Sam Sager

from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim

from Modern Meditations: Rebecca Kaden (Union Square Ventures) by Mario Gabriele

from Squad Wealth by Other Internet

from Everybody has to self-promote now. Nobody wants to. by Rebecca Jennings