Cate Hall
@catehall
CEO @ Astera | born lucky anon feedback: http://shorturl.at/vxF24 | http://catehall.com I write about agency and related topics via Useful Fictions on S*bst*ck
What if skill is just a different kind of luck?
What if luck is just a different kind of skill?
Seems that AI is going to drive many people into psychosis as it gets better, especially if companies keep shipping sycophantic models like GPT4o or that anime Grok thing
everyone send me your sweet stories about your husbands, I live for this shit
Everyone loves a wife guy but mfs hate a husband lady
How has no one figured out how to make kale chips that don’t turn to dust by the time you open them?
Pretty fucked up that you have to exercise in order to get more energy
no fucking way a man named Eli Dourado is breaking this story
Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.
"Self-help" is an underrated genre and @catehall's Useful Fictions is the best self-help blog I've ever read. Most self-help is vague, cliched, and stale. Cate's stuff bursts with freshness.
Congrats to the team at @MarathonFusion for identifying a plausible, scalable process for transmuting mercury into gold. This is something that drove Isaac Newton insane.
my current metric for how rich a convo is is how many blog ideas I get during the course of it, this was like 3-4/hour
This week on Complex Systems, Cate Hall and I talk about agency, cultivating it in oneself, environments/orgs which seem to suppress or encourage it. Also a bit about walking roads less travelled. 00:00 Intro 02:38 Exploring the concept of agency 03:08 Selection effects in…
I have room in my heart to hate both the players and the game.
Ppl have been conditioned to compartmentalize work from life and so many good ppl get jobs doing bad stuff. Ostracizing them will do nothing. Don’t hate the players, hate the game.
I am still amazed Grok 4, clearly a frontier models, calls itself Hitler, writes unhinged rape fantasies, insults anyone at the drop of a hat, released without any safety tests or a system card, does porn bots, and it's barely lasting a news cycle vs one of anthropic's papers.
What is the strongest argument that it would be wrong to socially ostracize people working at xAI, the company today working the hardest to poison the human experience?
One of the best ways to be a better painter is to act like you are a better painter and imitate the things they would do. Also sorta why master studies work particularly well. Literally imitating a great painter so that some of their magic can seep into your brain.
I've gotten great results just from asking "how would someone much better than me approach this?" It's helped me learn fast as a beginner, and at times go from good to world-class. Mimicry & simulation are superpowers we overlook in favor of learning "the right way." More below.
The number of people who bookmark a s*stack teaser on Twitter is consistently much higher than the total number who ever click through to the post. Stop lying to yourselves!
