Natalie Audelo

The moment you stop believing in the corporate fiction is the moment you can start using it. Once you see it as infrastructure rather than identity, as a resource rather than a calling, everything shifts.

I carry around the ghosts of fascinating ideas that don’t have a home yet... and so they float around me, demanding to be processed.

This is happening because the materialistic world we live in not only values things more than people, but treats people as if they were things.

Much of what we celebrate as ‘good design’ has simply become very good at hiding its true costs. We’ve become brilliant at creating sleek interfaces that make harmful systems more palatable, beautiful products that accelerate environmental destruction, and ‘user-friendly’ platforms that exploit our psychological vulnerabilities.

There’s something oddly steadying about naming the thing properly – not as some grand historical tragedy, but as what it actually is: getting yelled at by dumbasses.

“All sort of buffoonish men, genuinely disturbed and disturbing men whose own lack of human empathy was capitalized upon by surrounding hordes of enablers, grifters, and sociopaths. The authoritarian strongman figure at the heart of awful regimes may possess some unique and interesting, if horrifying, characteristics, but the regimes themselves are... See more