All of my posts, sorted by date

All my posts, organized by date. Well, all malcolmocean.com posts. You might also be looking for my writing on twitter, in my roamblog on intend.do or on my intentionality substack. Or this one guest post I did on Ribbonfarm. See also half-baked posts.

• Mar 27, 2025 Hell is Praying and Heaven is Bullshitting
• Jan 28, 2025 2024: Nascent Intelligence
• Aug 5, 2024 Bootstrapping Meta-Trust
• May 4, 2024 7 takes on falling sanely in love
• Apr 30, 2024 The Mating Dance: an online course on falling sanely in love
• Apr 21, 2024 The secret to co-gnosis
• Mar 10, 2024 Releasing myself from a confused self-contradictory commitment
• Feb 21, 2024 3 Loops of Expressing Feelings
• Feb 19, 2024 2023: Allowing Diligence
• Jan 9, 2024 Merely getting everybody in touch with their own knowing isn’t enough
• Jan 8, 2024 The eyes-open student: “I can see things my teacher can’t acknowledge”
• Jan 4, 2024 Reality distortion: “I can tell, but you can’t”
• Dec 13, 2023 The primacy of knowing-for-oneself
• Dec 10, 2023 Oppressive cultures: you don’t get to know what you know
• Dec 6, 2023 How did you forget to tell for yourself?
• Nov 18, 2023 “I can tell for myself”
• Aug 25, 2023 “Whose job is this?”
• Jul 21, 2023 The superegos have gone crazy
• Jul 14, 2023 dropping balms
• Jun 30, 2023 Evolution of Consciousness one-pager
• Jun 15, 2023 Malcolm, explain the Non-Naive Trust Dance right fucking now, in one breath, standing on one foot
• May 2, 2023 confronting & forgiving the people who instilled fear in my heart
• Mar 31, 2023 art is choosing what to breathe life into
• Feb 7, 2023 Partswork doesn’t require reifying or naming parts
• Jan 27, 2023 2022: Deepening in a Different Direction
• Dec 16, 2022 The choice to open, the choice to allow
• Dec 12, 2022 Mindset choice 2: expanding awareness
• Dec 5, 2022 Coercion in terms of scarcity & perceptual control
• Nov 27, 2022 Exploring & integrating my resistances to growing Intend
• Nov 21, 2022 Exploring non-coercive marketing for my intentionality app business
• Nov 10, 2022 Respect people by letting them make their own mistakes
• Oct 28, 2022 Open Letter to David Sauvage re Collective Decision-Making
• Sep 8, 2022 How and why I take a weekly “day off”
• Aug 18, 2022 Allowing allowing
• Jun 17, 2022 What is collective consciousness and why does it matter?
• Jun 5, 2022 The Courage To Leave (original song)
• May 25, 2022 An illustration of the adjacent-possible meta-team vision
• May 5, 2022 co-what-now: aiming for flow & sovereignty on the largest scale presently possible
• Feb 28, 2022 Towardsness & Awayness Motivation are fundamentally asymmetric
• Jan 29, 2022 Announcing some other media
• Dec 30, 2021 2021: Catching my Breath
• Nov 30, 2021 The next step for Twitter: Multi-Quote-Tweet
• Nov 25, 2021 What are you knot-doing?
• Nov 11, 2021 Internal Trust Dancing case study 3: easy but impossible; welcoming suspicion
• Nov 6, 2021 “Mindset choice” is a confusion
• Oct 12, 2021 Why you can’t beat your shadow in a fight
• Oct 4, 2021 Fractal Home
• Aug 28, 2021 Internal Trust Dancing case study 2: scheduling & cancelling dates
• Jul 29, 2021 Internal Trust Dancing case study 1: EA & relaxation
• Jul 14, 2021 Fractal Pomodoros
• Jul 11, 2021 How I run Online Workshops
• Jun 29, 2021 Dream Mashups
• Jun 20, 2021 Work With Me – new site page
• Apr 18, 2021 Runway lengthens if you’re making money
• Mar 3, 2021 Letter to my younger self, who has just been sent to his room
• Dec 17, 2020 Complice: Beyond Getting Things Done
• Nov 10, 2020 A Collaborative Self-Energizing Meta-Team Vision
• Oct 7, 2020 Wtf is a deadline? Showtime, missing the bus, time walls, check-ins, &+
• Jan 10, 2020 2019 Yearly Review: Divided Brain Reconciled by Meaningful Sobbing
• Dec 24, 2019 “Systems vs Goals” is silly. Have both!
• Oct 25, 2019 The Challenge of Partial Control
• Jan 31, 2019 Reviewing the choices I made in 2018
• Jan 10, 2019 Nothing is Behind
• Feb 15, 2018 Laughter and Dominance: 5-year reflection on againstness training
• Jan 31, 2018 12017 Yearly Review
• Dec 18, 2017 Make an appointment with your saner self
• Nov 28, 2017 Transcending Regrets, Problems, and Mistakes
• Nov 18, 2017 Building self-trust with Self-Referential Motivation
• Nov 8, 2017 Captain’s Log: ultra-simple tech for self-reflection
• Sep 30, 2017 The Unreserved YES
• Jul 28, 2017 On “Being Grateful for the Opportunity to Train”
• Jul 8, 2017 Transcending Blame while Hopping Mountains Together
• Jun 28, 2017 Towards being purpose-driven without fighting myself
• Jan 16, 2017 12016: A Year of Co-Responsibility
• Dec 8, 2016 How I Learned to Stop Hurrying and Fall In Love (with a project)
• Oct 6, 2016 Taking myself seriously
• Sep 20, 2016 New site page: Experiments
• Jul 8, 2016 Common-knowledge self-commitments for changing patterns of thought
• Jun 19, 2016 Boggling at being a computational creature made of stuff
• Jun 4, 2016 You flow downhill (and you can sculpt the hill)
• Apr 26, 2016 Introducing the Cast (of Malcolm Ocean)
• Apr 9, 2016 Polyphasic? No, but stably and happily biphasic.
• Feb 27, 2016 Don’t get distracted and crash
• Feb 7, 2016 Debating the implications (not the facts)
• Jan 28, 2016 CFAR 3 year retrospective
• Jan 16, 2016 Delegating to future-you can be a suggestion, not a command
• Jan 9, 2016 2015: A Year of Freedom
• Dec 15, 2015 Interfacing at the Speed of Thought
• Dec 10, 2015 Then I Wake Up (a short story)
• Dec 8, 2015 Why I blog
• Nov 24, 2015 A laptop employed as a nightlight
• Nov 21, 2015 Wanting to escape the present
• Nov 15, 2015 Proactively learning to think *about* what I think with
• Nov 8, 2015 Shoals: what do you know you don’t want?
• Nov 1, 2015 Just Do A Thing (that nobody’s expecting you to do)
• Oct 12, 2015 The patterns that we’re made of
• Aug 21, 2015 The Time I Caught Myself Whistling
• Aug 8, 2015 Not Your Daddy’s Bystander Effect
• Jul 25, 2015 Lost & Found (a song I wrote)
• Jul 14, 2015 The sticky note that wasn’t passive-aggressive
• Jun 18, 2015 Unlearning shoddy thinking
• Jun 2, 2015 Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand
• May 23, 2015 Abstracting from Experience
• May 15, 2015 Go more meta by developing an immunity to iocaine powder
• Apr 22, 2015 When you can’t find the edge of the frame
• Apr 6, 2015 Deciding to make things happen
• Feb 22, 2015 Four easy ways to create value for your friends
• Feb 14, 2015 The Iron Ring and Heroic Responsibility
• Jan 24, 2015 Announcing the Effectivity Habits Project
• Jan 16, 2015 Structures of accountability
• Jan 3, 2015 2014: An Objective Year
• Dec 26, 2014 Creating contexts for desire cultivation
• Dec 15, 2014 9 Things I Relearned From Hugging 70 strangers in airports (in one day)
• Nov 30, 2014 Dot Objects: Don’t Judge a [____] by its [____]
• Nov 17, 2014 Cycles of Breath and Feedback
• Sep 20, 2014 Eating Frogs or Playing Vicious Rock-Paper-Scissors
• Aug 15, 2014 Getting over Feeling Entitled to Good Design
• Aug 2, 2014 Typical Minds and Typical Faces
• Jul 24, 2014 Two Ways to Make Your Language More Conducive to Growth Mindset
• Jul 15, 2014 The 40-Hour Work Weekend
• Jul 3, 2014 How I’m reading 2× as much as last year with a smaller goal
• Jun 28, 2014 Not with a bang, but with a yawn.
• May 30, 2014 Habit Models: Routines vs Reflexes
• May 24, 2014 What I Learned From 20 Weeks of Habit Hacking
• May 11, 2014 Self-Authorship: writing your own story
• Apr 24, 2014 Trust-powered feedback loops
• Apr 18, 2014 Mindfulness Field Training 2: Motivation
• Apr 15, 2014 Mindfulness Field Training
• Jan 26, 2014 Perspective-taking
• Dec 31, 2013 2013: A Year of Connection
• Dec 7, 2013 Complice: My goal-progress-tracking business, 75 days
• Nov 7, 2013 The scientifically-validated way to align urges and goals: Implementation Intentions
• Oct 22, 2013 What People Think of You
• Oct 9, 2013 I’m Starting a Business: Planning and Achieving Goals
• Oct 2, 2013 This Post May Contain Traces of Gluten
• Sep 20, 2013 Everything You Want
• Aug 27, 2013 Looking for Beggars: A Perspective Shift
• Aug 22, 2013 So You Want To Sleep Polyphasically
• Aug 1, 2013 Subjective Objectivity
• Jul 12, 2013 Accepting my present chocolate addiction
• Jun 25, 2013 On Sleep and Sticktoitiveness
• Jun 15, 2013 Flow vs Deliberate Practice
• May 20, 2013 YES! I noticed!
• Apr 12, 2013 Polyphasic Sleep 2: Everyman (Day 11)
• Mar 26, 2013 12 Thoughts on Age, Growing Up and Birthdays
• Mar 15, 2013 My Songwriting is On Fire
• Feb 28, 2013 On the Unsuitableness of “IF” and the Intricacies of “BUT”
• Feb 10, 2013 Winning at Arguments by Enlarging your PNS
• Feb 1, 2013 The Meta-Application of Rationality
• Jan 7, 2013 Introducing FileKicker 3: New features and new possibilities
• Dec 31, 2012 2012: A Year of Projects
• Nov 18, 2012 My first album: The Mind I’m Lost Inside
• Oct 27, 2012 The Mind I’m Lost Inside: I’m releasing an album in 3 weeks.
• Aug 30, 2012 What if you do everything perfectly, and you still fail?
• Jul 11, 2012 Delicious Cognitive Dissonance
• May 29, 2012 Dear Amazon
• May 17, 2012 Laughing for no reason
• Apr 12, 2012 How did you spend the last hour?
• Apr 10, 2012 I want to have reflection time.
• Apr 1, 2012 “I Don’t Watch” – The challenge to mean what I say.
• Feb 22, 2012 40 Days Unsweetened
• Feb 12, 2012 Frontal lobe or midbrain? How to take control.
• Jan 28, 2012 The Emotional Intelligence of a Smartphone
• Dec 27, 2011 A Real Man
• Dec 13, 2011 FileKicker 2: Return of the File!
• Nov 10, 2011 First hackings with Arduino: Text on LEDs
• Nov 9, 2011 Multitrack song!
• Oct 16, 2011 Judge books by their covers
• Oct 8, 2011 How I crossed “duvet” off my To-Get List without buying a duvet
• Oct 6, 2011 What Steve Jobs means to me
• Sep 26, 2011 A Productive Day
• Sep 3, 2011 Two Original Songs on a Piano
• Aug 7, 2011 Priorities: It’s not what you do, but what you don’t do. (Music and Thoughts)
• Aug 1, 2011 FileKicker – My First Published Android App
• Aug 1, 2011 Three Final Haikus & A New Challenge
• Jul 28, 2011 Song and Poems Galore!
• Jul 24, 2011 A Little Music and Reflections on Achieving Goals
• Jul 12, 2011 Shadow [#3 – Summer of Song 2011]
• Jul 11, 2011 “Self-Referentially” – A Double-Dactyl Poem
• Jul 11, 2011 Haiku on Lucid Dreaming
• Jul 9, 2011 If It Didn’t Rhyme (A Poem in Couplets)
• Jul 9, 2011 How To Write A Sonnet
• Jul 7, 2011 Self-referential Haikus
• Jul 6, 2011 Poems from Previous Days
• Jul 3, 2011 Uberman Day 6 Conclusion
• Jul 2, 2011 Uberman Days 4-5 Roller Coaster
• Jul 2, 2011 How to Add Daily Awesome to your Life in 2 Easy Steps.
• Jul 2, 2011 30 Day Poem/Song Challenge Day 1
• Jul 1, 2011 Uberman Day 3 Trials
• Jun 30, 2011 Uberman Day 2
• Jun 29, 2011 Uberman Day 1 Finished
• Jun 28, 2011 Uberman Day 1 – Morning
• Jun 28, 2011 Uberman Day Zero
• Jun 27, 2011 Hello world!