Natalie Audelo
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yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling
Natalie Audelo
Stories are incredibly powerful in moving members to engage in impact initiatives. Centering impact stories on the community members who made them possible also feels far less self-aggrandizing than focusing on your company’s efforts.
David Spinks • How to Activate your Community for Impact
If you work on anything worthwhile, sooner or later people will care about it and will want you to send progress updates. These could be quarterly investor updates, weekly updates to your boss, emails to adjacent teams, etc. Here are tips on how to do this well.
Understand your role, and with each update add to the body of evidence that you’re a
Black Hole Words: To me, these are words that are commonplace in a given industry but everyone has a slightly different definition of them. You can have a whole meeting and if you don’t define the word, you just wasted an hour of everyone’s time. They suck all the meaning and consensus out of a room, out of a business, and out of a company.
Molly Graham • “Black Hole Words” and the power of asking stupid questions
the secret of new york is that it only really works at the extremes
not that the rich or the poor have it easy, but the middle is where the city quietly grinds you down. the rich float above the city, insulated by square footage and silence, moving through private doors. the poor learn how to make the city bend. they split rooms and meals and jump
... See moreA brilliant 2015 essay by the economist Steven Horwitz argued that free play prepares children for the “art of association” that Alexis de Tocqueville said was the key to the vibrancy of American democracy; he also argued that its loss posed “a serious threat to liberal societies.” A generation prevented from learning these social skills, Horwitz... See more
Jonathan Haidt • Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid
on the importance of play
What might shift if we treated marketing as a creative practice itself? If we practiced promotion as an invitation into rather than a pushing onto ?
Baila turns one, part 2.
It was not fun to walk around with my ghosts, despite what my positive memories wanted me to believe. I think this is because inherent in “revisiting” is the palpable reality that everything ends, the reminder that soon the way you are experiencing your present moment will be the past; it too will end.
Anna Fusco • Somebody That I Used To Know
I’ve been comforted and energized by this idea — which I first heard in this interview with the novelist Zadie Smith — that caretaking is a kind of liberation.
It’s liberation from the idea that we can self-optimize ourselves to the point of not needing anyone else. That if we work hard enough to survive in a competitive economy, we’ll be able to... See more
It’s liberation from the idea that we can self-optimize ourselves to the point of not needing anyone else. That if we work hard enough to survive in a competitive economy, we’ll be able to... See more