Natalie Audelo
@natalieaudelo
yes person for all things community, connection, & storytelling. civic optimist based in SF
Natalie Audelo
Honey, I really don’t care what you have to do in order to return to a feeling of love. In your scariest moments, you have my permission to find me however you need to find me. And if “finding love” means scarfing down a box of cereal on a scary night alone in a hotel room in a foreign country, then you better believe that I was inside that box of... See more
LETTERS FROM LOVE — With Special Guest Nate Postlethwait!
I don’t think that humans can really move forward into whatever’s coming for us next without facing what we’ve done to our home and each other. Such a reckoning includes the beauty, joy, and community found in crisis, as well as the pain. The sociologist Donna Haraway calls this “staying with the trouble.”
Manjula Martin Tells Us
A 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
But 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
“Reflection matters because it is continuous with practice. How you think about what you are doing affects how you do it, or whether you do it at all. It may direct your research, or your attitude to people who do things different, or indeed your whole life.”
Lawrence Yeo • The Right Side of Thought - More To That
It’s hard to see history when you’re in the middle of it, harder still to distinguish Swift’s impact on the culture from her celebrity, which emits so much light it can be blinding. But something unusual is happening with Swift, without a contemporary precedent. She deploys the most efficient medium of the day—the pop song—to tell her story. Yet... See more
Sam Lansky • Is TIME's 2023 Person of the Year
To be a good delegator, first you have to be a systems thinker . Systems thinking consists of understanding how events, behaviors, tasks, problems etc. relate and how they can prevail and sustain over time.
Clara Ma • Issue 23: Delegating as a Chief of Staff
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.