Useful Fictions
all models are wrong, but some are useful. Click to read Useful Fictions, by Cate Hall, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
- Posts
- 31 from 10 Jan 2024 to 23 Jul 2026
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- monthly (11 in the last year)
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- personal blog
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2026 11
- Nate w/Cate Hall on her new book, "You Can Just Do Things"
- You Can Just Do Things is out TODAY!
- Find a way
- Do you know your default shape?
- Agency is for sociopaths
- Until you get punched in the face
- Writing a book is a labor of love
- Do Less.
- The lies I used to tell myself
- The seam through the center of things
- Burnout is breaking a sacred pact
2025 17
- Rightness is a prison
- Behold, my TED talk
- In praise of quitting
- 50 things I know
- How to increase your surface area for luck
- How to instantly be better at things
- Fuck willpower
- Learn to love the Moat of Low Status
- 37 things people love about Sasha Chapin
- Are you stuck in movie logic?
- Tying yourself to the mast
- Everyone’s the hero of their own story
- Maybe you’re not Actually Trying
- Everyone here is in a cult
- I used to be a high-performing robot
- Crossing the cringe minefield
- Testosterone gave me my life back