Kate Dole
@thegrowthgrove.bsky.social
Collecting and experimenting with ideas is one of my favourite hobbies.
Spending time sitting in the "I wonder what might happen if," space always brings an extra bright spot into my days.
Lately, reading about mental models has been end-capping my days, and there's a section
Spending time sitting in the "I wonder what might happen if," space always brings an extra bright spot into my days.
Lately, reading about mental models has been end-capping my days, and there's a section
May 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Collecting and experimenting with ideas is one of my favourite hobbies.
Spending time sitting in the "I wonder what might happen if," space always brings an extra bright spot into my days.
Lately, reading about mental models has been end-capping my days, and there's a section
Spending time sitting in the "I wonder what might happen if," space always brings an extra bright spot into my days.
Lately, reading about mental models has been end-capping my days, and there's a section
“The companies that will stand out are the ones that show their craft and true understanding of the customer.”
In context, this quote concerns what happens in our AI-soaked present and future. However, I can't seem to find the angle from which it hasn't been true all along.
In context, this quote concerns what happens in our AI-soaked present and future. However, I can't seem to find the angle from which it hasn't been true all along.
May 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
“The companies that will stand out are the ones that show their craft and true understanding of the customer.”
In context, this quote concerns what happens in our AI-soaked present and future. However, I can't seem to find the angle from which it hasn't been true all along.
In context, this quote concerns what happens in our AI-soaked present and future. However, I can't seem to find the angle from which it hasn't been true all along.
Growth lives in the little things.
Celebrating them, I mean.
The moment you send the email you were dreading.
The day you drink enough water.
The 2% better week.
The 6/10 complete pomodoros on your biggest goal (where last week it was zero)
Celebrate those. Build momentum, not just milestones.
Celebrating them, I mean.
The moment you send the email you were dreading.
The day you drink enough water.
The 2% better week.
The 6/10 complete pomodoros on your biggest goal (where last week it was zero)
Celebrate those. Build momentum, not just milestones.
May 16, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Growth lives in the little things.
Celebrating them, I mean.
The moment you send the email you were dreading.
The day you drink enough water.
The 2% better week.
The 6/10 complete pomodoros on your biggest goal (where last week it was zero)
Celebrate those. Build momentum, not just milestones.
Celebrating them, I mean.
The moment you send the email you were dreading.
The day you drink enough water.
The 2% better week.
The 6/10 complete pomodoros on your biggest goal (where last week it was zero)
Celebrate those. Build momentum, not just milestones.
We are abandoning being *told* what the authority is - and rediscovering for ourselves. We have evolved for some things like ritual, community/communion - and it’s lacking in our lives.
But we don’t need some old dude to tell us how to be kind and respect things outside ourselves.
But we don’t need some old dude to tell us how to be kind and respect things outside ourselves.
A lot of people are peeling off from traditional religious denominations and following a different path—rediscovering ancestral faith or rewriting Christian religion or becoming pagan witches. newrepublic.com/article/1945...
The Americans Who Quit the Church to Become Witches—Among Other Things
While millions are leaving the organized Christian faiths, they’re not abandoning spirituality. Instead, they’re seeking practices outside old institutions.
newrepublic.com
May 15, 2025 at 10:39 PM
We are abandoning being *told* what the authority is - and rediscovering for ourselves. We have evolved for some things like ritual, community/communion - and it’s lacking in our lives.
But we don’t need some old dude to tell us how to be kind and respect things outside ourselves.
But we don’t need some old dude to tell us how to be kind and respect things outside ourselves.
Grab you some @lexroman.com goods. Not a journalist? Check out revenuerulebreaker.com
All their stuff is 10/1
All their stuff is 10/1
May 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Grab you some @lexroman.com goods. Not a journalist? Check out revenuerulebreaker.com
All their stuff is 10/1
All their stuff is 10/1
Happy Friday! Don't forget to celebrate the little things. The micro-wins. The glimmers.
If you don't feel like you have any - ask some folks around you for theirs. Odds are, you'll realize you also have some.
Oh - and don't take anything too seriously this weekend.
If you don't feel like you have any - ask some folks around you for theirs. Odds are, you'll realize you also have some.
Oh - and don't take anything too seriously this weekend.
May 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Happy Friday! Don't forget to celebrate the little things. The micro-wins. The glimmers.
If you don't feel like you have any - ask some folks around you for theirs. Odds are, you'll realize you also have some.
Oh - and don't take anything too seriously this weekend.
If you don't feel like you have any - ask some folks around you for theirs. Odds are, you'll realize you also have some.
Oh - and don't take anything too seriously this weekend.
1/ If you make $100,000/year, do you know how many years it would take you to make 1 Billion dollars?
10,000. Doable? Not until we're f'in immortal.
What if you made the median wage in the US, Canada, UK, or Luxumberg (highest median wage OECD country)?
10,000. Doable? Not until we're f'in immortal.
What if you made the median wage in the US, Canada, UK, or Luxumberg (highest median wage OECD country)?
April 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
1/ If you make $100,000/year, do you know how many years it would take you to make 1 Billion dollars?
10,000. Doable? Not until we're f'in immortal.
What if you made the median wage in the US, Canada, UK, or Luxumberg (highest median wage OECD country)?
10,000. Doable? Not until we're f'in immortal.
What if you made the median wage in the US, Canada, UK, or Luxumberg (highest median wage OECD country)?
What if, instead of "Hot Takes" we did more "Considered Takes," "Well-thought-out Takes," "Helpful Takes"
Or anything else that isn't for the sake of the views and the clicks.
What would our feeds look like if we started trying to have next-level, deeper conversations?
Or anything else that isn't for the sake of the views and the clicks.
What would our feeds look like if we started trying to have next-level, deeper conversations?
April 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
What if, instead of "Hot Takes" we did more "Considered Takes," "Well-thought-out Takes," "Helpful Takes"
Or anything else that isn't for the sake of the views and the clicks.
What would our feeds look like if we started trying to have next-level, deeper conversations?
Or anything else that isn't for the sake of the views and the clicks.
What would our feeds look like if we started trying to have next-level, deeper conversations?
Reposted by Kate Dole
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
"I don't talk to any other patients like I talk to you"
👀
At my regular eye exam yesterday (let's go, bifocals!) - this is what the Optometrist said to me...also the same thing my Primary Physician a few weeks ago.
My response is the always same...
👀
At my regular eye exam yesterday (let's go, bifocals!) - this is what the Optometrist said to me...also the same thing my Primary Physician a few weeks ago.
My response is the always same...
March 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
"I don't talk to any other patients like I talk to you"
👀
At my regular eye exam yesterday (let's go, bifocals!) - this is what the Optometrist said to me...also the same thing my Primary Physician a few weeks ago.
My response is the always same...
👀
At my regular eye exam yesterday (let's go, bifocals!) - this is what the Optometrist said to me...also the same thing my Primary Physician a few weeks ago.
My response is the always same...
Daydreams I've been cycling through lately ☀️🌚
1. Helping a few hundred (or thousands?) SMBs take a bite out of the big guys. More SMBs = more competition, and more importantly, better ethics. The abstraction from enormity makes for some of the shadiest, ruthless decisions.
1. Helping a few hundred (or thousands?) SMBs take a bite out of the big guys. More SMBs = more competition, and more importantly, better ethics. The abstraction from enormity makes for some of the shadiest, ruthless decisions.
March 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Daydreams I've been cycling through lately ☀️🌚
1. Helping a few hundred (or thousands?) SMBs take a bite out of the big guys. More SMBs = more competition, and more importantly, better ethics. The abstraction from enormity makes for some of the shadiest, ruthless decisions.
1. Helping a few hundred (or thousands?) SMBs take a bite out of the big guys. More SMBs = more competition, and more importantly, better ethics. The abstraction from enormity makes for some of the shadiest, ruthless decisions.
I don't know who needs to hear this today (me)
But there's no real advantage in trying to follow what "every one else is doing"
Stop polishing yourself....just be weird.
Life is way too short.
Happy Friday y'all.
But there's no real advantage in trying to follow what "every one else is doing"
Stop polishing yourself....just be weird.
Life is way too short.
Happy Friday y'all.
March 7, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I don't know who needs to hear this today (me)
But there's no real advantage in trying to follow what "every one else is doing"
Stop polishing yourself....just be weird.
Life is way too short.
Happy Friday y'all.
But there's no real advantage in trying to follow what "every one else is doing"
Stop polishing yourself....just be weird.
Life is way too short.
Happy Friday y'all.
Reposted by Kate Dole
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
March 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
The businesses I admire most aren't growing the fastest—they're growing the most meaningfully.
What's one way you've chosen purpose over pure scale this past week?
#WeekendThoughts #PurposefulGrowth #BusinessPhilosophy
What's one way you've chosen purpose over pure scale this past week?
#WeekendThoughts #PurposefulGrowth #BusinessPhilosophy
March 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The businesses I admire most aren't growing the fastest—they're growing the most meaningfully.
What's one way you've chosen purpose over pure scale this past week?
#WeekendThoughts #PurposefulGrowth #BusinessPhilosophy
What's one way you've chosen purpose over pure scale this past week?
#WeekendThoughts #PurposefulGrowth #BusinessPhilosophy
This is exactly where my stomach dropped out of my body. I can’t fathom that this is the real timeline.
It's stomach-turning to see how the representative of the Ukrainian people, who have suffered 3 years of imperialist war, death, and destruction, is being treated by Trump, Vance, and all their cronies, just because he refuses to grovel before them.
Bastards, the lot of them.
Bastards, the lot of them.
ZELENSKYY: Putin broke the ceasefire. What kind of diplomacy, JD, are you speaking about?
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
VANCE: I think it's disrespectful to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media
March 1, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This is exactly where my stomach dropped out of my body. I can’t fathom that this is the real timeline.
Trust tip: Stop trying to look perfect.
The most trusted brands in 2025 acknowledge their flaws...not hide them.
When did you last openly share something that wasn't working? Counterintuitively, showing vulnerability is one of the fastest paths to building credibility.
The most trusted brands in 2025 acknowledge their flaws...not hide them.
When did you last openly share something that wasn't working? Counterintuitively, showing vulnerability is one of the fastest paths to building credibility.
February 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Trust tip: Stop trying to look perfect.
The most trusted brands in 2025 acknowledge their flaws...not hide them.
When did you last openly share something that wasn't working? Counterintuitively, showing vulnerability is one of the fastest paths to building credibility.
The most trusted brands in 2025 acknowledge their flaws...not hide them.
When did you last openly share something that wasn't working? Counterintuitively, showing vulnerability is one of the fastest paths to building credibility.
Trust is the only currency that matters in 2025.
When algorithms shift daily and platforms come and go, there's only one business asset that consistently grows in value – trust. (cont)
When algorithms shift daily and platforms come and go, there's only one business asset that consistently grows in value – trust. (cont)
February 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Trust is the only currency that matters in 2025.
When algorithms shift daily and platforms come and go, there's only one business asset that consistently grows in value – trust. (cont)
When algorithms shift daily and platforms come and go, there's only one business asset that consistently grows in value – trust. (cont)
Trust is measurable, not just feelable.
Three metrics that reveal your trust equity:
• Unprompted referrals
• Recovery rate (customers who stay after problems)
• Premium price sustainability
Which are you tracking?
#TrustMetrics #BusinessGrowth #CustomerLoyalty
Three metrics that reveal your trust equity:
• Unprompted referrals
• Recovery rate (customers who stay after problems)
• Premium price sustainability
Which are you tracking?
#TrustMetrics #BusinessGrowth #CustomerLoyalty
February 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trust is measurable, not just feelable.
Three metrics that reveal your trust equity:
• Unprompted referrals
• Recovery rate (customers who stay after problems)
• Premium price sustainability
Which are you tracking?
#TrustMetrics #BusinessGrowth #CustomerLoyalty
Three metrics that reveal your trust equity:
• Unprompted referrals
• Recovery rate (customers who stay after problems)
• Premium price sustainability
Which are you tracking?
#TrustMetrics #BusinessGrowth #CustomerLoyalty
If you aren't confident enough in your message to repeat it until YOU are bored of it, your audience will never even remember it.
We're so afraid of being "too repetitive" that we constantly change our messaging, our positioning, our value proposition... (cont)
We're so afraid of being "too repetitive" that we constantly change our messaging, our positioning, our value proposition... (cont)
February 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
If you aren't confident enough in your message to repeat it until YOU are bored of it, your audience will never even remember it.
We're so afraid of being "too repetitive" that we constantly change our messaging, our positioning, our value proposition... (cont)
We're so afraid of being "too repetitive" that we constantly change our messaging, our positioning, our value proposition... (cont)
Reposted by Kate Dole
There’s something happening in this country.
Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.
February 21, 2025 at 3:19 PM
There’s something happening in this country.
Here's a paradox we aren't talking about enough: 🕴
The more businesses lean on AI to automate and polish up their routines - the more valuable it becomes to break out of that mold.
The more data we have on "best practices" and the easier they become to follow using AI....
The more businesses lean on AI to automate and polish up their routines - the more valuable it becomes to break out of that mold.
The more data we have on "best practices" and the easier they become to follow using AI....
February 21, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Here's a paradox we aren't talking about enough: 🕴
The more businesses lean on AI to automate and polish up their routines - the more valuable it becomes to break out of that mold.
The more data we have on "best practices" and the easier they become to follow using AI....
The more businesses lean on AI to automate and polish up their routines - the more valuable it becomes to break out of that mold.
The more data we have on "best practices" and the easier they become to follow using AI....
Reposted by Kate Dole
February 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
After my post about turning constraints into superpowers, specific examples are in order!
Here's my exact framework for transforming limitations into strategic advantages - The Rebel's Advantage 🎨 + 🤖
Here's my exact framework for transforming limitations into strategic advantages - The Rebel's Advantage 🎨 + 🤖
February 12, 2025 at 3:56 PM
After my post about turning constraints into superpowers, specific examples are in order!
Here's my exact framework for transforming limitations into strategic advantages - The Rebel's Advantage 🎨 + 🤖
Here's my exact framework for transforming limitations into strategic advantages - The Rebel's Advantage 🎨 + 🤖
I mean….
February 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I mean….
Reposted by Kate Dole
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency
Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone
Call it a Day Of Transparency