Natalie Audelo

@natalieaudeloyes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling. civic optimist based in SF

“The idle hour does not exist in order to improve the hours around it. It does not recharge you for anything. It is not an investment whose return is

“You cannot monetise a man staring at rain. You can sell him a meditation app that promises the rain-staring will lower his cortisol and improve his q

I can think of many other examples of this semantic creep. Leisure becomes ‘recreation’ and now implies a purposeful activity designed to restore you.

The average AI programmer in the US makes $160,000 per year.The average preschool teacher makes $37,000.We’ve decided that it’s 4x more valuable to tr

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The cost of convenience is vitality. You can have a lot of things done for you in the modern world — and many of them are great time savers! — but the

“In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned. When I first heard the phrase, I didn’t understand

To love humans is not optimism; it requires an unrelenting, deliberate faith, the stubborn act of catching every dropped match and insisting it can st

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