Kate Smalley
@katesmalley
Small Business Advisor & Educator.
Pursuing work that’s meaningful in a way that’s sustainable.
Exploring growth that centers play, possibility, care, and fullness.
Kate Smalley
katesmalley.com
"You can’t find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf
Sorry (Not Sorry), Self-Promotion Doesn't Work
whatworks.fyi“Enshittification” of social media / new platforms in general. Things start really good, get mediocre or even straight-up bad, but rarely bad enough to leave (i.e. Airbnb, Instagram). Also! Respect the medium—make something for the medium, rather than repurpose.
"To resist in place is to make oneself into a shape that cannot so easily be appropriated by a capitalist value system."
— Jenny Odell, How To Do Nothing
We have so many allies in this world, including the blue in the sky, which we’re not paying attention to.
On Being • David Whyte — Seeking Language Large Enough
We have no idea what will land on the shoreline of morning tomorrow. We are always actively involved in receiving and shaping. I think that’s one of the major mistakes we make with time, is that we equate it with space. When in actual fact time is unshaped. Expectation creates the future, and the imagination that you bring to the new dawn will
... See moreJohn O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
Brené with Father Richard Rohr on Breathing Under Water, Falling Upward, and Unlearning Certainty, Part 1 of 2
open.spotify.com“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”
— Richard Rohr
"Do the things you make touch you back?"
— Rajani Perera