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.

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
Desire Infrastructure

I'm playing on the term "desire paths" here, the paths that show up where people actually want to walk, not just where the planners of sidewalks and roads want them to walk.
from Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto by River Kenna
building my own language library
“It’s not singlehood, dear friend, that hurts; it’s not casual sex, the fluidity of our bonds, nor their ephemeral nature that causes pain.” Rather, it’s the way that power operates in relationships. Desire isn’t a spontaneous, apolitical passion; it’s shaped by the world around us, and by what we’ve been taught to value. Romance operates like a ma... See more
from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis
power structures and dynamics
After reading a large number of business school case studies, a friend of UCLA business strategy professor Richard Rumelt observed to him that “‘it looks to me as if there is really only one question you’re asking in each case: What’s going on here?’” Rumelt writes: “it was something I’ve never heard said explicitly but it was instantly and obvious... See more
from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog
good advice
"If you already live a comfortable life, then choosing to make more money but live a worse daily life is a bad trade.

And yet, we talk ourselves into it all the time. We take promotions that pay more, but swallow our free time. We already have a successful business, but we break ourselves trying to make it even more successful.

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from 3-2-1: What top performers do, and how to deal with critics and detractors
loving the process
The better life you absolutely can build isn’t going to be brought to you by ChatGPT but by your own steady uphill clawing and through careful management of your own expectations. You live here. This is it.
from To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe
loving the process
The most sustainable and potent motivation is experiencing joy and curiosity within an activity. Cultivate joy for exercise and fascination with fitness to remove the need for constant external motivation.
from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager
loving the process
I would argue that the high standard for congruence among Japanese establishments plays a similar role in improving the quality of public life. Yes, tasteful establishments cater towards wealthier patrons, but they are key players in creating the city’s overall appeal, as most shop owners are working hard to provide “visual delight.” Japanese propr... See more
from On Taste and Congruence
building better neighborhoods & communal spaces
The real practice of the artist is a way of being in the world. I always had assumed that it was, it was about doing things a certain way is what an artist was. But it’s more than that. Yes, there is an aspect of it that’s about doing things a particular way and in a considered way. But the only way to do things in a considered way is to live in a
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from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being
Finding Meaning and

from Soul-Making Productivity: A Process Manifesto by River Kenna

from Why Does Romance Now Feel Like Work? by Hannah Giorgis

from What's Going on Here, With This Human? - Graham Duncan Blog by grahamduncan.blog

from 3-2-1: What top performers do, and how to deal with critics and detractors

from To Learn to Live in a Mundane Universe

from Exploring Our Why by Sam Sager

from On Taste and Congruence

from Rick Rubin — Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative by On Being