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.

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“The key seems to be to find a restful yet attention presence in the midst of our work, to open up a spaciousness even in the center of our responsibility.”

— David Whyte, Crossing the Unknown Sea

Work

Kaskie: We are not trying to be everything to everybody. We’re trying to be something to someone.

Dan Kois • The Oral History of Pitchfork, From the Careers It Made to the Bands It Killed

Art in Containers

The amateur's fear eclipses her compassion for others and for herself.

Steven Pressfield • Turning Pro

Art in Containers

“Life is ceaseless movement; stability is found in balance, not rigidity.”

— Neil Theise, Notes on Complexity

people don’t buy products when they understand them. they buy products when they feel understood.

Communication, Language, Form

My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?

thecreativeindependent.com thecreativeindependent.com

Art in Containers

I love the question @jordancooper asks founders- “if there were one thing i needed to understand to see as much value in your business as you do, what would it be and let’s talk about that.”

Art in Containers

"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

The Emergent Now

Daniel Schmachtenberger’s talk at Emergence

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The Emergent Now

Synergy, emergence, evolution. “Winning at a dying system is not an interesting win.”