Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling. civic optimist based in SF
Natalie Audelo
Her kindness and candor. Her curiosity and intellectual courage. Her willingness to explore and contemplate the layers of things rather than reaching for easy judgment
Manjula Martin Tells Us
When eugenics-obsessed billionaires try to sell me a new toy, I don’t ask how many keystrokes it will save me at work. It’s impossible for me to discuss the utility of a thing when I fundamentally disagree with the purpose of it.
Miriam Eric Suzanne • Tech Continues to Be Political
The moat of low status is one of my favorite concepts, courtesy of my husband Sasha. The idea is that making changes in your life, especially when learning new skill sets, requires you to cross a moat of low status, a period of time where you are actually bad at the thing or fail to know things that are obvious to other people.
Cate Hall • How to Be More Agentic
Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed. You were so busy focusing on how much you could carry, you never realized you could run this fast.
3-2-1: The power of imperfection, the secret to a good morning, and more
She is a maestro of self-determination, of writing her own story
Sam Lansky • Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year
“It's almost like she expanded time and created a space where we could all contemplate and feel and think together in her music.”
Living seasonally
As Janine explained, that is our design challenge—to realign ourselves with life’s genius. And there’s a word for that practice: biomimicry.
The Overview: Life's Genius
Ted Hughes:
“And that’s how we measure out our real respect for people—by the degree of feeling they can register, the voltage of life they can carry and tolerate—and enjoy. End of sermon. As Buddha says: live like a might river. And as the old Greeks said: live as though all your ancestors were living again through you.”