Cate Hall
Person on 3 sites
Former Supreme Court litigator and the top-ranked female poker player in the world, later co-founder and COO of the pandemic-medicine company Alvea. Writes at…
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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9 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Radical agency is finding real edges: the things other people are unwilling to do because they are annoying or unpleasant. (opens korrents.com)
“In my way of thinking, radical agency is about finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying or unpleasant.”
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Most traits people treat as fixed — agency, confidence, charisma, warmth — are learnable if you believe they are and work at them. (opens korrents.com)
“Most subject matter is learnable, even stuff that seems really hard. But beyond that, many (most?) traits that people treat as fixed are actually quite malleable if you (1) believe they are and (2) put the same kind of…”
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If you are only asking for things you get, you are not asking for enough, and rejection should be courted deliberately. (opens korrents.com)
“Ask for things that feel unreasonable, to make sure your intuitions about what’s reasonable are accurate (of course, try not to be a jerk in the process). If you’re only asking for things you get, you’re not aiming…”
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Radical agency is finding real edges: the things other people are unwilling to do because they are annoying or unpleasant. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Cat's Cradle (opens rcmnd.app)
“I think I’ve read this book five times, which is 2.5 times more than my next-most-read book. It is both a totally straightforward, easy to read short novel and a work of incredible inventiveness and wisdom.”
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The Goddess of Everything Else (opens rcmnd.app)
“A gorgeous allegory of the forces of cooperation and competition, as personified by the title character and the Goddess of Cancer. I love this piece because it reminds me that everything good in the world doesn’t just…”
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The Egg (opens rcmnd.app)
“A work of great beauty that has exerted a buffering effect on my sanity throughout different eras of my life, acting like a psychedelic during my most grounded times and a grounding influence during my most psychedelic…”
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Cat's Cradle (opens rcmnd.app)