Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
We don’t build community .
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
We build containers where community has a chance to emerge.
How Communities Emerge
He offers a thought experiment: what if the brief to design a new train connection was given to Disney instead of railway engineers? The latter immediately focuses on speed, time, distance and capacity. With Disney, the goal wouldn’t be to shave minutes off the journey. They may ask a different question: “How do we make the train journey so enjoyab... See more
311 / The fallacy of faster
"Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of... See more
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of... See more
3-2-1: How to deal with a changing world and the wonders of ordinary life
“We have lost a sense of play. After 2020 did her big one, we’ve been looking for play..... with Pickeball, with trivia nights, and frickin’... improv. And in reality, you can just leave your house and have a nice playful moment with someone else. [...] We live in a fear-based culture.”
Playfulness, 'the marriage pact', nostalgia loops, an innovation idea for footwear brands lurking
Do you know someone who sees the world in a way that reveals new hues to you? Whose sense of self-awareness leads them to move with arresting originality, and invites you to do the same just by nature of being in their aura? It’s that quality I’m increasingly drawn to during these times when it’s all too tempting to see life in dark shades and dull... See more
The Overview: In Vivid Color
Never hesitate to invest in yourself—to pay for a class, a course, a new skill. These modest expenditures pay outsized dividends.
101 Additional Advices
Packed to the brim with every material imaginable, @scrapsf is where your art supplies go on to live their second life. If you’ve got a few bucks and a couple hours to kill—or some stuff piling up that could use a new home—stop by! #SFStandard #SanFrancisco #SFArtists #ArtSupplies #ScrapSF
instagram.comBut it’s standard in the way that — the way that I get to work with artists is like we’re friends hanging out and talking about whatever comes up. And through that, things get unlocked that allow writing and performances to be more closer to the core. And that’s the goal with all of this.
On Being • Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative
In the natural world, nothing goes to waste. Matter constantly decomposes and reconstitutes in new shapes, serving new purposes. We have much to learn from this continuum of transmutation in human societies, where we throw “away” our waste to some invisible hereafter, rather than accept the truth: it remains.