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
"We cannot hurry the river."
— Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann
“Great things can only be understood gradually. You don’t get anything great all at once.”
— Richard Rohr
Silence is the poetics of space. What it means to be in a place.
Emergence Magazine • Emergence Magazine - Sanctuaries of Silence
“If you are here unfaithfully with us / you’re causing terrible damage.”
— Rumi
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.
In a gift economy, wealth is understood as having enough to share, and the practice for dealing with abundance is to give it away. In fact, status is determined not by how much one accumulates, but by how much one gives away. The currency in a gift economy is relationship, which is expressed as gratitude, as interdependence and the ongoing cycles o
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