About Cate Hall
What is Useful Fictions?
This blog is my attempt to transmit the mental models (“useful fictions”) I’ve developed over the course of a life that has ranged from boring (law) to thrilling (poker), horrifying (addiction) to sublime (tk). I write most often about agency, which I think about as the entirely learnable capacity to both see and act on all of the degrees of freedom that life really offers. I’m writing a book on agency with my husband Sasha (out next spring via Harper Business), and Useful Fictions is partly a place for me to test out material for the book, and hopefully build an audience for it.
All of the illustrations on Useful Fictions are commissioned from Alexander Naughton.