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.

Asha Saluja is a rare mix of being a very serious taskmaster, but also a caring person who understands that creative work is made by real people with emotions and lives. She kept our ship running with compassion and also contributed lots of great ideas when we were developing the show.
from "Am I A Classhole?"
Conscious Leadership
The lesson I learned from this is that it’s easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time. If you give in to “just this once,” based on a marginal cost analysis, as some of my former classmates have done, you’ll regret where you end up. You’ve got to define for yourself what you stand for and draw th
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from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
Your decisions about allocating your personal time, energy, and talent ultimately shape your life’s strategy.
from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen
What do you consider your greatest achievement so far?

Building a family. Building is a political philosophy – a very noble act. We talk a lot about the virtue of building in Silicon Valley, and for most people, family formation is the deepest and most tangible way in which they’ll experience building something from nothing that outlasts themselves... See more
from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle
loving the process
“In many ways the magic of Patagonia comes from the constraints we place on ourselves which are grounded in our deep sense of responsibility to do right by the environment and society,” Stanley told me. “We can't go to the Fashion Institute of Technology library and choose from 5,000 fabrics for the spring line. We have a couple hundred we can choo... See more
from How Patagonia Became The Most Reputable Brand In The United States by Doug Sundheim
good leadership
Entrepreneur Phil Levin on the importance of neighborhoods:

"You are going to spend 1000x more time in your surrounding 5 blocks than you will in any other neighborhood in your city. Thinking about all the things that New York City has—or the next city has—is a lot less important than thinking about the things within the five blocks where you live.

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building better neighborhoods & communal spaces
Philosopher and author Arthur Schopenhauer on the importance of reflection and contemplation rather than mere reading and research:

“You may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing e... See more
from 3-2-1: How to solve hard problems, the power of reflection, and the miracles of daily life
The Passion Job Burnout Machine is different than the burnout machines of, say, Big Law, or investment banking. With those jobs, you know who’s burning you out and why. It’s a very transparent trial by fire: a means to see if you can hack it with a very time-greedy job (that rewards you with very high pay). Passion jobs let you do the dirty work yo... See more
from When Your Profession is On Fire
Burnout
If you’re actually serious about treating burnout — yours, your partners, your future children’s — you have to be serious about treating it for people you might not even know. If you want to actually make life better, more livable, less of a slog for yourself, that involves making it better for a whole lot of other people as well. For that, you don... See more
from what great inconvenience by Anne Helen Petersen
Burnout

from "Am I A Classhole?"

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clay Christensen

from Modern Meditations: Katherine Boyle

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

from 3-2-1: How to solve hard problems, the power of reflection, and the miracles of daily life

from When Your Profession is On Fire

from what great inconvenience by Anne Helen Petersen