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.

It’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team.
from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
My claim is that luxury goods are gradually becoming a noisier signal of one's position in society. This isn't to say that they don't still confer status — they clearly do. People still buy material items to signal their status. But because they've become a noisier signal over time, people are starting to signal their status with their beliefs and ... See more
from The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’
power structures and dynamics
Your personal experiences make up maybe 0.00000001% of what’s happened in the world but maybe 80% of how you think the world works.
from Ideas That Changed My Life by Morgan Housel
These folks are the guardians of the party’s communal energy. Their charisma is mature and thoughtful, not narcissistic. They can subtly refine and recalibrate social dynamics by introducing strangers, tweaking the lights, or suggesting the next activity—all without stealing focus from the moment itself. They’re observant, present, and able to reco... See more
from The Type of Charisma That Saves a Holiday Party by Adrienne Matei
the art of gathering and qualities i admire
The human brain is hardwired to infer intentions behind words. Every time you engage in conversation, your mind automatically constructs a mental model of your conversation partner. You then use the words they say to fill in the model with that person’s goals, feelings and beliefs.
from Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
A great new word: Pronoia Pronoia: the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favour – the opposite of paranoia.
This is, for many of us, the dream: unfettered commitment to externalizing our innards without concern for any gaze but our own. Reclaiming one’s time, you could say. But it requires nothing short of a battle.
from When a hobby becomes a job by Marian Bull
loving the process
And if I know one thing it’s that if you’re experiencing a genuinely moving moment, if you’re really in it, the absolute last thing you want or think about doing is taking out your phone, cutting through it and cheapening it. The best love is quiet. The best confidence is quiet. And so are the lives with the most meaning.
from You Don't Need To Document Everything by Freya India
Humanity has never faced anything like the combination of climate change, the rise of a vastly powerful industrialized China, and the “total collapse of the neoliberal paradigm,” he said. “It is a non-repeating pattern; it’s a one-way street into radical unhinging,” he continued. Tooze isn’t a pessimist, per se. “We aren’t on the point of World War... See more
from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka

from KEEGAN: The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan

from The Profile Interview: Author Rob Henderson on Why We Hold ‘Luxury Beliefs’ and Develop ‘Status Anxiety’

from Ideas That Changed My Life by Morgan Housel

from The Type of Charisma That Saves a Holiday Party by Adrienne Matei

from Mistaking fluent speech for fluent thought by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

from When a hobby becomes a job by Marian Bull

from You Don't Need To Document Everything by Freya India

from The Terrible Twenties? The Assholocene? What to Call Our Chaotic Era by Kyle Chayka