Malcolm Ocean

(the written-in-20-minutes version. feel free to ask questions in the comments below or on twitter if you would like me to unpack something or you try it and get stuck at some step!)

For both my own sanity and as part of helping others navigate my writing and thinking, I found myself drawn to organizing my posts and unpublished drafts & ideas into some kind of structure, not by bullets but relating them to each other in paragraph form.

my yearly review, in one breath standing on one foot, because my previous reviews had cleared 10k words and I want to spend precious writing time going deeper into other topics. okay fine, maybe two or three breaths.

Epistemic status: I’m definitely onto something but don’t take my word for it.

My friends Harmony, Sahil, and James created a practice for relating called Stemless.

How people end up with crazy (to you) ontologies: they have some experiences they don't know how to make sense of and a crazy ontology comes along and says "hey look here's how it makes sense" and it is legit kinda helpful (but then obscures other things…

The verb “trust” basically can’t be conjugated in the imperative case, in my view.

There’s a classic thought experiment called Newcomb’s Problem.

A few years ago I had an idea for a game to help people practice the stance of orienting towards win-wins, and the skill of creatively finding win-wins.

My friend Ivan is working on a project called the Applied Organic Alignment Lab and he asked me to write up my version of how I’d approach such a project, in this era.