Molly Simpson
@spagmol
thinker, feeler, third-wheeler
collecting dots here, connecting them there ￬
Molly Simpson
spagmol.substack.com
I operate in seasons . Sometimes I’m in launch mode, other times I’m in build mode, and occasionally I’m in rest mode. I also flex my client work up and down depending on what else is happening in my life. I’ve learned the hard way that trying to do everything at once is a recipe for disaster, and so I try to get clear on my quarterly focus and the... See more
Growing a portfolio career with Anna Mackenzie
operating in seasons
Author and entrepreneur Eliot Peper on taking risks:
"If you know something's going to work, it's not worth working on. It requires no courage. It requires no faith. It requires no skin in the game. Whether you're a spy or a teacher or a spouse or a painter or an abuela or an astronaut or a monk or a barista or a board-game designer, the bits that
... See moreBeing at the edge of something means that there’s something new ahead. You’ve come up against the wall of the proverbial box, whether that’s your own capacities, your own knowledge, your expertise of a medium. You can either retreat away from the edges and stay in the box or tear it down and build a new one. Or decide that boxes actually aren’t
... See more‘The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.’ by Karen Blixen, writing as Isak Dinesen
“We need to think of platforms not as tools we use, but as worlds we live in.”
(Benjamin Bratton)
How we can mean almost nothing on the scale of the universe and also almost everything on the scale of who we are to one another. (Which is to say, on the scale of the universe too, because we’re all a part of the cosmos when you get right down to it. Star-stuff in our bones and teeth.)