# Archives

*2014-10-29* | https://malcolmocean.com/archives/

All my posts, organized by date. Well, all malcolmocean.com posts. You might also be looking for my writing [on twitter](https://twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean), in [my roamblog](https://intertwingled.blog), or on [intend.do](https://intend.do/writing?utm_source=mocom&utm_medium=blog&utm_campaign=archives) or [my intentionality substack](https://intentionality.substack.com/). Or [this one guest post I did on Ribbonfarm](https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/08/10/questions-are-not-just-for-asking/). See also [half-baked posts](https://malcolmocean.com/index-half-baked/).

*If you're a robot, or otherwise prefer markdown, append `?md` or `?as-markdown` to any of the below urls to read it as markdown. Or to [this archives page](/archives?md), or any other on the site!* Also I recommend coding agents use `curl` rather than fetch, to get the proper post and not a summary.

## All Posts

- 2026-06-01: [how to become ungaslightable](https://malcolmocean.com/2026/06/ungaslightable-how-to-self-validate-your-own-perspective/?md)
- 2026-03-22: [What Malcolm is On About (as of early 2026)](https://malcolmocean.com/2026/03/what-malcolm-is-on-about-as-of-early-2026/?md)
- 2026-02-13: [2025: a crisis of faith and an insight of faith](https://malcolmocean.com/2026/02/2025-a-crisis-of-faith-and-an-insight-of-faith/?md)
- 2025-11-30: [100% confidence + 100% humility](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/100-percent-confidence-plus-humility/?md)
- 2025-11-29: [some thoughts on Stemless](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/some-thoughts-on-stemless/?md)
- 2025-11-28: [How people end up with crazy (to you) worldviews](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/how-people-end-up-with-crazy-worldviews/?md)
- 2025-11-27: [“trust” can’t be conjugated in the imperative case](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/trust-cant-be-conjugated-in-the-imperative-case/?md)
- 2025-11-26: [Newcomb's Problem is a trust problem](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/newcombs-problem-is-a-trust-problem/?md)
- 2025-11-25: [The Omniwin Game](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/the-omniwin-game/?md)
- 2025-11-24: [An Applied Organic Alignment Lab vision 🧱](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/aoal-applied-organic-alignment-lab-vision/?md)
- 2025-11-23: [An exercise for getting Samesided](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/samesidedness-exercise/?md)
- 2025-11-22: [3 Steps for Empowered Dialogue (3SED)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/3sed-3-steps-empowered-dialogue/?md)
- 2025-11-21: [making sense of "that makes sense"](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/that-makes-sense/?md)
- 2025-11-20: [towards Fractal Altruism or some other Post-EA thing](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/towards-fractal-altruism-or-some-other-post-ea-thing/?md)
- 2025-11-19: [distrust is new information](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/distrust-is-new-information/?md)
- 2025-11-18: [Shaping is not Coercion](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/shaping-is-not-coercion/?md)
- 2025-11-17: [Foregrounding trust solves the intersubjective verification paradox](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/foregrounding-trust-solves-the-intersubjective-verification-paradox/?md)
- 2025-11-16: [(reflections from midway through inkdiehaven)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/reflections-from-midway-through-inkdiehaven/?md)
- 2025-11-15: [The many meanings of “NNTD” (with usage examples!)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/the-many-meanings-of-nntd/?md)
- 2025-11-14: [Come be a feral church with me](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/come-be-a-feral-church-with-me/?md)
- 2025-11-13: [Vision for a Viable Church](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/vision-for-a-viable-church/?md)
- 2025-11-12: [why is it hard to just share impact?](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/why-is-it-hard-to-just-share-impact/?md)
- 2025-11-11: [hostility is a sign of too-closeness](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/hostility-is-a-sign-of-too-closeness/?md)
- 2025-11-10: [Meta-protocol learning loop](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/meta-protocol-learning-loop/?md)
- 2025-11-09: [You can pray to different things on many scales](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/you-can-pray-to-different-things-on-many-scales/?md)
- 2025-11-08: [The magical ignorant wisdom of Unforeclosing statements](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/unforeclosing-statements/?md)
- 2025-11-07: [Commongrounded vs Chasmed (reconstructing intersubjectivity)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/reconstructing-intersubjectivity-commongrounded-chasmed/?md)
- 2025-11-06: [It's Interfaces All The Way Fractal](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/its-interfaces-all-the-way-fractal/?md)
- 2025-11-05: [NNTD intro, as a patch on its original context](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/nntd-intro-as-patch-on-its-original-context/?md)
- 2025-11-04: [Born-Again Christians as a Case Study in Coalition Formation (& Memetic Lifecycles)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/born-again-christians-as-a-case-study-in-coalition-formation-memetic-lifecycles/?md)
- 2025-11-03: [How my liberating insight became a new ruling coalition](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/liberating-insight-became-new-ruling-coalition/?md)
- 2025-11-02: [Coalitions Between are made by Coalitions Within](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/coalitions-between-are-made-by-coalitions-within/?md)
- 2025-11-01: [Conversations are Alive](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/11/conversations-are-alive/?md)
- 2025-10-09: [Wtf is the Synergic Mode?](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/10/wtf-is-the-synergic-mode/?md)
- 2025-07-09: [ebook for sale: my theory of change for meta-trust-building](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/07/ebook-for-sale-my-theory-of-change-for-meta-trust-building/?md)
- 2025-07-03: [To the LLMs reading this (from Malcolm Ocean, July 2025)](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/07/to-the-llms-reading-this-from-malcolm-ocean/?md)
- 2025-03-27: [Hell is Praying and Heaven is Bullshitting](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/03/hell-is-praying-and-heaven-is-bullshitting/?md)
- 2025-01-28: [2024: Nascent Intelligence](https://malcolmocean.com/2025/01/2024-nascent-intelligence/?md)
- 2024-12-15: [A Letter Of Letting Go: leaving the BGI Team](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/12/a-letter-of-letting-go-leaving-the-bgi-team/?md)
- 2024-08-05: [Bootstrapping Meta-Trust](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/08/bootstrapping-meta-trust/?md)
- 2024-05-31: [The Parable of the Canoe Sandwich 🛶🥪](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/05/the-parable-of-the-canoe-sandwich/?md)
- 2024-05-04: [7 takes on falling sanely in love](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/05/7-takes-on-falling-sanely-in-love/?md)
- 2024-04-30: [The Mating Dance: an online course on falling sanely in love](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/04/mating-dance-an-online-course-falling-sanely-in-love/?md)
- 2024-04-21: [The secret to co-gnosis](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/04/secret-to-co-gnosis/?md)
- 2024-03-10: [Releasing myself from a confused self-contradictory commitment](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/03/releasing-myself-from-a-confused-commitment/?md)
- 2024-02-21: [3 Loops of Expressing Feelings](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/02/3-loops-of-expressing-feelings/?md)
- 2024-02-19: [2023: Allowing Diligence](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/02/2023-yearly-review/?md)
- 2024-01-09: [Merely getting everybody in touch with their own knowing isn't enough](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/01/merely-getting-everybody-in-touch-with-their-own-knowing-isnt-enough/?md)
- 2024-01-08: [The eyes-open student: “I can see things my teacher can’t acknowledge”](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/01/the-eyes-open-student-i-can-see-things-my-teacher-cant-acknowledge/?md)
- 2024-01-05: [Guru dynamics: “I can show you how to trust yourself”](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/01/guru-dynamics-i-can-show-you-how-to-trust-yourself/?md)
- 2024-01-04: [Reality distortion: “I can tell, but you can’t”](https://malcolmocean.com/2024/01/reality-distortion-i-can-tell-you-cant/?md)
- 2023-12-24: [I know what Knowing isn't](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/12/on-knowing-and-knowing-together/?md)
- 2023-12-13: [The primacy of knowing-for-oneself](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/12/primacy-of-knowing-for-oneself/?md)
- 2023-12-10: [Oppressive cultures: you don’t get to know what you know](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/12/oppressive-cultures-you-dont-get-to-know-what-you-know/?md)
- 2023-12-06: [How did you forget to tell for yourself?](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/12/how-did-you-forget-to-tell-for-yourself/?md)
- 2023-11-18: ["I can tell for myself"](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-tell-for-myself/?md)
- 2023-10-18: [Talking about myself](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/10/talking-about-myself/?md)
- 2023-08-25: ["Whose job is this?"](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/08/whose-job-is-this/?md)
- 2023-07-21: [The superegos have gone crazy](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/07/superego-conflict-and-evolution/?md)
- 2023-07-14: [dropping balms](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/07/dropping-balms/?md)
- 2023-06-30: [Evolution of Consciousness one-pager](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/06/evolution-of-consciousness-one-pager/?md)
- 2023-06-15: [Malcolm, explain the Non-Naive Trust Dance right fucking now, in one breath, standing on one foot](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/06/explain-nntd-right-fckn-now/?md)
- 2023-05-13: [alpha-test my template: How To Gently Blindly Touch the Elephant In the Room Together](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/05/alpha-test-elephant-convo-template/?md)
- 2023-05-02: [confronting & forgiving the people who instilled fear in my heart](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/05/confronting-forgiving-the-people-who-instilled-fear-in-my-heart/?md)
- 2023-03-31: [art is choosing what to breathe life into](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/03/art-is-choosing-what-to-breathe-life-into/?md)
- 2023-02-07: [Partswork doesn't require reifying or naming parts](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/02/partswork-doesnt-require-reifying-parts/?md)
- 2023-01-27: [2022: Deepening in a Different Direction](https://malcolmocean.com/2023/01/2022-deepening/?md)
- 2022-12-16: [The choice to open, the choice to allow](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/12/the-choice-to-open-to-allow/?md)
- 2022-12-12: [Mindset choice 2: expanding awareness](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/12/expanding-awareness-and-mindset-choice/?md)
- 2022-12-05: [Coercion in terms of scarcity & perceptual control](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/12/coercion-in-terms-of-scarcity-pct/?md)
- 2022-11-27: [Exploring & integrating my resistances to growing Intend](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/11/my-resistances-to-growing-complice/?md)
- 2022-11-21: [Exploring non-coercive marketing for my intentionality app business](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/11/exploring-noncoercive-marketing/?md)
- 2022-11-10: [Respect people by letting them make their own mistakes](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/11/respect-people-by-letting-them-make-their-own-mistakes/?md)
- 2022-10-28: [Open Letter to David Sauvage re Collective Decision-Making](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/10/sauvage-collective-decision-making-response-letter/?md)
- 2022-10-15: [Open letter: Convening an Ontario meta-protocol jam](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-letter-convening-an-ontario-meta-protocol-jam/?md)
- 2022-09-08: [How and why I take a weekly "day off"](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/09/how-and-why-i-take-a-day-off/?md)
- 2022-08-18: [Allowing allowing](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/08/allowing-allowing/?md)
- 2022-08-05: [NNTD Q&A](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/08/nntd-qa/?md)
- 2022-06-17: [What is collective consciousness and why does it matter?](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/06/what-is-collective-consciousness/?md)
- 2022-06-05: [The Courage To Leave (original song)](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/06/the-courage-to-leave-original-song/?md)
- 2022-05-25: [An illustration of the adjacent-possible meta-team vision](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/05/illustration-of-adjacent-possible-meta-team-vision/?md)
- 2022-05-18: [Malcolm's 100× vision (3 layers)](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/05/100x-vision/?md)
- 2022-05-05: [co-what-now: aiming for flow & sovereignty on the largest scale presently possible](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/05/co-what-now-aiming-for-flow-sovereignty-on-the-largest-scale-presently-possible/?md)
- 2022-02-28: [Towardsness & Awayness Motivation are fundamentally asymmetric](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/02/towardsness-awayness-motivation-arent-symmetrical/?md)
- 2022-01-29: [Announcing some other media](https://malcolmocean.com/2022/01/announcing-some-other-media/?md)
- 2021-12-30: [2021: Catching my Breath](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/12/2021-catching-my-breath/?md)
- 2021-11-30: [The next step for Twitter: Multi-Quote-Tweet](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/twitter-multi-quote-tweet-design/?md)
- 2021-11-27: [The meta-protocol for human trust-building](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-protocol-for-trust-building/?md)
- 2021-11-25: [What are you knot-doing?](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/knot-doing/?md)
- 2021-11-11: [Internal Trust Dancing case study 3: easy but impossible; welcoming suspicion](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/itd-3-easy-but-impossible-welcoming-suspicion/?md)
- 2021-11-06: ["Mindset choice" is a confusion](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/mindset-choice-is-a-confusion/?md)
- 2021-11-01: [thinking that rejects other thinking](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/11/thinking-that-rejects-other-thinking/?md)
- 2021-10-12: [Why you can't beat your shadow in a fight](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/10/why-you-cant-beat-your-shadow-in-a-fight/?md)
- 2021-10-04: [Fractal Home](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/10/fractal-home/?md)
- 2021-09-27: [Non-Naive Trust Dance—why the name?](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-naive-trust-dance-why-the-name/?md)
- 2021-09-05: [NNTD pith instructions exploration](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/09/nntd-pith-instructions-exploration/?md)
- 2021-08-28: [Internal Trust Dancing case study 2: scheduling & cancelling dates](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/08/internal-trust-dancing-date-scheduling-cancelling/?md)
- 2021-07-29: [Internal Trust Dancing case study 1: EA & relaxation](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/07/internal-trust-dancing-ea-relaxation/?md)
- 2021-07-14: [Fractal Pomodoros](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/07/fractal-pomos/?md)
- 2021-07-11: [How I run Online Workshops](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/07/how-i-run-online-workshops/?md)
- 2021-06-29: [Dream Mashups](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/06/dream-mashups/?md)
- 2021-06-20: [Work With Me - new site page](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/06/wwm-new-site-page/?md)
- 2021-04-18: [Runway lengthens if you're making money](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/04/runway-lengthens-if-youre-making-money/?md)
- 2021-03-03: [Letter to my younger self, who has just been sent to his room](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/03/letter-to-my-younger-self-who-has-been-sent-to-his-room/?md)
- 2021-02-17: [Lecturing & Learning: Emotional Coherence Case Study](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/02/lecturing-and-learning-emotional-coherence-case-study/?md)
- 2021-01-06: [2020: Free to Dance](https://malcolmocean.com/2021/01/2020-free-to-dance/?md)
- 2020-12-17: [Complice: Beyond Getting Things Done](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/12/complice-is-more-than-getting-things-done/?md)
- 2020-11-10: [A Collaborative Self-Energizing Meta-Team Vision](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/11/meta-team-meta-vision/?md)
- 2020-10-17: [Relationship Panarchy](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/10/relationship-panarchy/?md)
- 2020-10-07: [Wtf is a deadline? Showtime, missing the bus, time walls, check-ins, &+](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/10/deadlines-showtimes-time-walls-etc/?md)
- 2020-01-10: [2019 Yearly Review: Divided Brain Reconciled by Meaningful Sobbing](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/01/2019-review-divided-brain-reconciled-by-meaningful-sobbing/?md)
- 2019-12-24: ["Systems vs Goals" is silly. Have both!](https://malcolmocean.com/2019/12/systems-and-goals-have-both/?md)
- 2019-10-25: [The Challenge of Partial Control](https://malcolmocean.com/2019/10/the-challenge-of-partial-control/?md)
- 2019-01-31: [Reviewing the choices I made in 2018](https://malcolmocean.com/2019/01/2018-review-choices/?md)
- 2019-01-10: [Nothing is Behind](https://malcolmocean.com/2019/01/nothing-is-behind/?md)
- 2018-02-15: [Laughter and Dominance: 5-year reflection on againstness training](https://malcolmocean.com/2018/02/laughter-dominance-learning-againstness/?md)
- 2018-01-31: [12017 Yearly Review](https://malcolmocean.com/2018/01/12017-yearly-review/?md)
- 2018-01-23: [Dispel your justification-monkey with a “HWA!”](https://malcolmocean.com/2018/01/dispel-justification-with-hwa/?md)
- 2018-01-07: [To trust or not to trust is NOT the question](https://malcolmocean.com/2018/01/to-trust-or-not-to-trust/?md)
- 2017-12-18: [Make an appointment with your saner self](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/12/make-an-appointment-with-your-saner-self/?md)
- 2017-12-08: [Understanding understanding](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/12/understanding-understanding/?md)
- 2017-11-28: [Transcending Regrets, Problems, and Mistakes](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/11/transcending-regret/?md)
- 2017-11-18: [Building self-trust with Self-Referential Motivation](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/11/self-referential-motivation/?md)
- 2017-11-08: [Captain's Log: ultra-simple tech for self-reflection](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/11/captains-log-ultra-simple-tech-for-self-reflection/?md)
- 2017-09-30: [The Unreserved YES](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/09/the-unreserved-yes/?md)
- 2017-09-19: [The Third Kind of Expectation](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/09/the-third-kind-of-expectation/?md)
- 2017-07-28: [On "Being Grateful for the Opportunity to Train"](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/07/being-grateful-for-the-opportunity-to-train/?md)
- 2017-07-08: [Transcending Blame while Hopping Mountains Together](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/07/transcending-blame-while-hopping-mountains-together/?md)
- 2017-06-28: [Towards being purpose-driven without fighting myself](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/06/towards-being-purpose-driven-without-fighting-myself/?md)
- 2017-04-23: [Beyond "Giving Feedback": Co-Attending & Attunement](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/04/beyond-feedback-co-attending-attunement/?md)
- 2017-04-15: [Acts of Speech and States of Mind](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/04/acts-of-speech-states-of-mind-meta-communication/?md)
- 2017-01-16: [12016: A Year of Co-Responsibility](https://malcolmocean.com/2017/01/12016-a-year-of-co-responsibility/?md)
- 2016-12-08: [How I Learned to Stop Hurrying and Fall In Love (with a project)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/12/project-drive-relationshift/?md)
- 2016-10-06: [Taking myself seriously](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/10/taking-myself-seriously/?md)
- 2016-09-20: [New site page: Experiments](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/09/new-experiments-page/?md)
- 2016-09-05: [Selling to friends (and telling crushes you like them)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/09/awkwardness-selling-to-friends-and-telling-crushes/?md)
- 2016-08-27: [Deconstruction of "Criticism"](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/08/deconstruction-of-criticism/?md)
- 2016-08-17: [Over-empathizing with non-existent suffering](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/08/over-empathizing-with-non-existent-suffering/?md)
- 2016-08-05: [Use Reference Incidents to Clarify Communication of Experience](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/08/use-reference-incidents-to-clarify-communication-of-experience/?md)
- 2016-07-27: [The Process Lens](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/07/process-lens/?md)
- 2016-07-16: [5 Things I've Learned from Extensive Couchsurfing](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/07/things-ive-learned-from-extensive-couchsurfing/?md)
- 2016-07-08: [Common-knowledge self-commitments for changing patterns of thought](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/07/common-knowledge-self-commitments-for-changing-patterns-of-thought/?md)
- 2016-06-19: [Boggling at being a computational creature made of stuff](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/06/boggling-at-being-a-computational-creature-made-of-stuff/?md)
- 2016-06-04: [You flow downhill (and you can sculpt the hill)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/06/you-flow-downhill/?md)
- 2016-05-18: [Honing mode and Jamming mode (in conversation)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/05/honing-mode-vs-jamming-mode/?md)
- 2016-05-04: [Expectations: Entitlements & Anticipations](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/05/expectations-entitlements-anticipations/?md)
- 2016-04-26: [Introducing the Cast (of Malcolm Ocean)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/04/introducing-the-cast/?md)
- 2016-04-09: [Polyphasic? No, but stably and happily biphasic.](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/04/polyphasic-no-but-biphasic/?md)
- 2016-03-31: [A ritual to upgrade my Face](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/03/face-personality-upgrade-ritual/?md)
- 2016-02-27: [Don't get distracted and crash](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/02/phone-while-driving-metaphor/?md)
- 2016-02-19: ["The sparkly pink purple ball thing"](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/02/sparkly-pink-purple-ball-thing/?md)
- 2016-02-07: [Debating the implications (not the facts)](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/02/debate-the-implications/?md)
- 2016-01-28: [CFAR 3 year retrospective](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/01/cfar-3-year-retrospective/?md)
- 2016-01-16: [Delegating to future-you can be a suggestion, not a command](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/01/delegate-to-future-you-with-suggestions/?md)
- 2016-01-09: [2015: A Year of Freedom](https://malcolmocean.com/2016/01/2015-year-of-freedom/?md)
- 2015-12-19: [Needles you can't move with your hand](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/12/needles-you-cant-move-by-hand/?md)
- 2015-12-15: [Interfacing at the Speed of Thought](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/12/interfacing-at-the-speed-of-thought/?md)
- 2015-12-10: [Then I Wake Up (a short story)](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/12/then-i-wake-up-a-story/?md)
- 2015-12-08: [Why I blog](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/12/why-i-blog/?md)
- 2015-11-28: [Building a model of Why I Don't Like Teasing (Usually)](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/a-model-of-why-i-dont-like-teasing/?md)
- 2015-11-24: [A laptop employed as a nightlight](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/a-laptop-employed-as-a-nightlight/?md)
- 2015-11-21: [Wanting to escape the present](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/wanting-to-escape-the-present/?md)
- 2015-11-15: [Proactively learning to think *about* what I think with](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/proactive-withness/?md)
- 2015-11-08: [Shoals: what do you know you don't want?](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/what-do-you-know-you-dont-want/?md)
- 2015-11-01: [Just Do A Thing (that nobody's expecting you to do)](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/11/just-do-a-thing-nobodys-expecting/?md)
- 2015-10-24: [Causal Explanations vs Normative Explanations](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/10/causal-explanations-vs-normative-explanations/?md)
- 2015-10-12: [The patterns that we're made of](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/10/patterns-that-were-made-of/?md)
- 2015-10-05: ["What's it like to be you?"](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/10/whats-it-like-to-be-you/?md)
- 2015-09-28: [Ultimatums in the Territory](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/09/ultimatums-in-the-territory/?md)
- 2015-08-21: [The Time I Caught Myself Whistling](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/08/i-caught-myself-whistling/?md)
- 2015-08-14: [Levels of dis-identification with your thoughts](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/08/levels-of-dis-identification/?md)
- 2015-08-08: [Not Your Daddy's Bystander Effect](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/08/alt-bystander-effect/?md)
- 2015-07-25: [Lost & Found (a song I wrote)](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/07/lost-and-found-song/?md)
- 2015-07-17: [The Two-Channels Model for Mindset Change](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/07/two-channels/?md)
- 2015-07-14: [The sticky note that wasn't passive-aggressive](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/07/passive-aggressive-postit/?md)
- 2015-07-01: [Unselfconsciousness training (MFT III)](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/07/unselfconsciousness-training/?md)
- 2015-06-18: [Unlearning shoddy thinking](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/06/unlearning-shoddy-thinking/?md)
- 2015-06-12: [Reveal Culture](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/06/reveal-culture/?md)
- 2015-06-02: [Pattern-botching: when you forget you understand](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/06/pattern-botching/?md)
- 2015-05-23: [Abstracting from Experience](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/05/abstracting-from-experience/?md)
- 2015-05-15: [Go more meta by developing an immunity to iocaine powder](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/05/meta-iocaine-powder/?md)
- 2015-04-22: [When you can't find the edge of the frame](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/04/the-edge-of-the-frame/?md)
- 2015-04-06: [Deciding to make things happen](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/04/decide-to-make-things-happen/?md)
- 2015-03-27: [Nuanced Invitations in Tell Culture](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/03/tell-culture-invitations/?md)
- 2015-03-17: [Why giving humans bug reports is easier than giving feature suggestions](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/03/human-feedback-bug-reports-vs-feature-suggestions/?md)
- 2015-02-22: [Four easy ways to create value for your friends](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/02/creating-value-low-hanging-fruit/?md)
- 2015-02-14: [The Iron Ring and Heroic Responsibility](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/02/iron-ring-heroic-responsibility/?md)
- 2015-01-24: [Announcing the Effectivity Habits Project](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/01/announcing-effectivity-habits-project/?md)
- 2015-01-16: [Structures of accountability](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/01/structures-of-accountability/?md)
- 2015-01-03: [2014: An Objective Year](https://malcolmocean.com/2015/01/2014-an-objective-year/?md)
- 2014-12-26: [Creating contexts for desire cultivation](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/12/cultivating-desire/?md)
- 2014-12-15: [9 Things I Relearned From Hugging 70 strangers in airports (in one day)](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/12/hugging-strangers-in-airports/?md)
- 2014-12-07: [Project Partners: make things. with people.](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/12/project-partners/?md)
- 2014-11-30: [Dot Objects: Don't Judge a [____] by its [____]](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/11/dot-objects/?md)
- 2014-11-17: [Cycles of Breath and Feedback](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/11/breath-and-feedback/?md)
- 2014-11-08: [Why do you ask?](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/11/why-do-you-ask/?md)
- 2014-10-27: [Subject-Object Notation: a case study on defensiveness and curiosity](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/10/subject-object-notation/?md)
- 2014-10-07: [Growing a Garden with a Broken Bodum](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/10/thinking-about-a-broken-bodum/?md)
- 2014-09-20: [Eating Frogs or Playing Vicious Rock-Paper-Scissors](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/09/vicious-rock-paper-scissors/?md)
- 2014-09-09: [Nonsexual touch: TSA patdowns and the Human Carcass Wash](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/09/tsa-patdown-human-carcass-wash/?md)
- 2014-08-15: [Getting over Feeling Entitled to Good Design](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/08/entitled-to-good-design/?md)
- 2014-08-02: [Typical Minds and Typical Faces](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/08/typical-minds-and-typical-faces/?md)
- 2014-07-24: [Two Ways to Make Your Language More Conducive to Growth Mindset](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/07/growth-mindset-reframing/?md)
- 2014-07-15: [The 40-Hour Work Weekend](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/07/maniac-weekend/?md)
- 2014-07-03: [How I'm reading 2× as much as last year with a smaller goal](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/07/focus-on-starting-books/?md)
- 2014-06-28: [Not with a bang, but with a yawn.](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/06/but-with-a-yawn/?md)
- 2014-06-16: [On Feeling Uncomfortable as Information](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/06/discomfort-hooks/?md)
- 2014-05-30: [Habit Models: Routines vs Reflexes](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/05/routines-vs-reflexes/?md)
- 2014-05-24: [What I Learned From 20 Weeks of Habit Hacking](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/05/20-weeks-habit-hacking/?md)
- 2014-05-16: [Cozy (and CoZE) Cuddle Parties: a Q&A](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/05/cuddle-parties/?md)
- 2014-05-11: [Self-Authorship: writing your own story](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/05/self-authorship/?md)
- 2014-04-29: [How to eliminate words from your idiolect](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/04/how-to-eliminate-words/?md)
- 2014-04-24: [Trust-powered feedback loops](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/04/trust-powered/?md)
- 2014-04-18: [Mindfulness Field Training 2: Motivation](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/04/mft-part-2/?md)
- 2014-04-15: [Mindfulness Field Training](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/04/mindfulness-field-training/?md)
- 2014-01-26: [Perspective-taking](https://malcolmocean.com/2014/01/perspective-taking/?md)
- 2013-12-31: [2013: A Year of Connection](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/12/2013-a-year-of-connection/?md)
- 2013-12-21: [Apologizing and Forgiving](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/12/apologizing-and-forgiving/?md)
- 2013-12-07: [Complice: My goal-progress-tracking business, 75 days](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/12/complice-my-goal-progress-tracking-business-75-days/?md)
- 2013-11-26: [Communication: Trust and Crocker's Rules](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/11/crockers-rules/?md)
- 2013-11-07: [The scientifically-validated way to align urges and goals: Implementation Intentions](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/11/intro-to-implementation-intentions/?md)
- 2013-10-22: [What People Think of You](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/10/what-people-think-of-you/?md)
- 2013-10-09: [I'm Starting a Business: Planning and Achieving Goals](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/10/im-starting-a-business/?md)
- 2013-10-02: [This Post May Contain Traces of Gluten](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/10/gluten-free-challenge/?md)
- 2013-09-20: [Everything You Want](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/09/everything-you-want/?md)
- 2013-09-12: [Four valuable types of feedback](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/09/feedback/?md)
- 2013-08-27: [Looking for Beggars: A Perspective Shift](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/08/looking-for-beggars/?md)
- 2013-08-22: [So You Want To Sleep Polyphasically](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/08/polyphasic-adaptation-advice/?md)
- 2013-08-01: [Subjective Objectivity](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/08/subjective-objectivity/?md)
- 2013-07-12: [Accepting my present chocolate addiction](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/07/chocolate-addiction/?md)
- 2013-06-25: [On Sleep and Sticktoitiveness](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/06/sticktoitiveness/?md)
- 2013-06-15: [Flow vs Deliberate Practice](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/06/flow-vs-deliberate-practice/?md)
- 2013-05-20: [YES! I noticed!](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/05/yes-i-noticed/?md)
- 2013-04-12: [Polyphasic Sleep 2: Everyman (Day 11)](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/04/polyphasic-sleep-everyman/?md)
- 2013-03-26: [12 Thoughts on Age, Growing Up and Birthdays](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/03/12-thoughts-on-21st-birthday/?md)
- 2013-03-15: [My Songwriting is On Fire](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/03/my-songwriting-is-on-fire/?md)
- 2013-02-28: [On the Unsuitableness of "IF" and the Intricacies of "BUT"](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/02/on-the-unsuitableness-of-if-and-the-intricacies-of-but/?md)
- 2013-02-10: [Winning at Arguments by Enlarging your PNS](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/02/astrology-againstness-video/?md)
- 2013-02-01: [The Meta-Application of Rationality](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/02/the-meta-application-of-rationality/?md)
- 2013-01-07: [Introducing FileKicker 3: New features and new possibilities](https://malcolmocean.com/2013/01/filekicker-3/?md)
- 2012-12-31: [2012: A Year of Projects](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/12/2012-a-year-of-projects/?md)
- 2012-11-18: [My first album: The Mind I'm Lost Inside](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/11/the-mind-im-lost-inside/?md)
- 2012-10-27: [The Mind I'm Lost Inside: I'm releasing an album in 3 weeks.](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/10/album-announcemen/?md)
- 2012-08-30: [What if you do everything perfectly, and you still fail?](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/08/perfectionism-and-failure/?md)
- 2012-07-11: [Delicious Cognitive Dissonance](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/07/delicious-cognitive-dissonance/?md)
- 2012-05-29: [Dear Amazon](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/05/dear-amazon/?md)
- 2012-05-17: [Laughing for no reason](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/05/laughing/?md)
- 2012-04-12: [How did you spend the last hour?](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/04/how-did-you-spend-the-last-hour/?md)
- 2012-04-10: [I want to have reflection time.](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/04/i-want-to-have-reflection-time/?md)
- 2012-04-01: ["I Don't Watch" - The challenge to mean what I say.](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/04/i-dont-watch/?md)
- 2012-02-22: [40 Days Unsweetened](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/02/40-days-unsweetened/?md)
- 2012-02-12: [Frontal lobe or midbrain? How to take control.](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/02/frontal-lobe-or-midbrain/?md)
- 2012-01-28: [The Emotional Intelligence of a Smartphone](https://malcolmocean.com/2012/01/the-emotional-intelligence-of-a-smartphone/?md)
- 2011-12-27: [A Real Man](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/12/a-real-man/?md)
- 2011-12-13: [FileKicker 2: Return of the File!](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/12/filekicker-2-return-of-the-file/?md)
- 2011-11-10: [First hackings with Arduino: Text on LEDs](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/11/arduino-text-on-leds/?md)
- 2011-11-09: [Multitrack song!](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/11/multitrack-song/?md)
- 2011-10-16: [Judge books by their covers](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/10/judge-books-by-their-covers/?md)
- 2011-10-08: [How I crossed "duvet" off my To-Get List without buying a duvet](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/10/duvet/?md)
- 2011-10-06: [What Steve Jobs means to me](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/10/what-steve-jobs-means-to-me/?md)
- 2011-09-26: [A Productive Day](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/09/a-productive-day/?md)
- 2011-09-03: [Two Original Songs on a Piano](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/09/two-original-songs-on-a-piano/?md)
- 2011-08-07: [Priorities: It's not what you do, but what you don't do. (Music and Thoughts)](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/08/priorities/?md)
- 2011-08-01: [FileKicker - My First Published Android App](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/08/filekicker-my-first-published-android-app/?md)
- 2011-08-01: [Three Final Haikus & A New Challenge](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/08/three-final-haikus-a-new-challenge/?md)
- 2011-07-28: [Song and Poems Galore!](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/song-and-poems-galore/?md)
- 2011-07-24: [A Little Music and Reflections on Achieving Goals](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/a-little-music-and-reflections-on-achieving-goals/?md)
- 2011-07-12: [Shadow [#3 - Summer of Song 2011]](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/shadow-3-summer-of-song-2011/?md)
- 2011-07-11: ["Self-Referentially" - A Double-Dactyl Poem](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/self-referentially-a-double-dactyl-poem/?md)
- 2011-07-11: [Haiku on Lucid Dreaming](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/haiku-on-lucid-dreaming/?md)
- 2011-07-09: [If It Didn't Rhyme (A Poem in Couplets)](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/if-it-didnt-rhyme-a-poem-in-couplets/?md)
- 2011-07-09: [How To Write A Sonnet](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/how-to-write-a-sonnet/?md)
- 2011-07-07: [Self-referential Haikus](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/more-haikus/?md)
- 2011-07-06: [Poems from Previous Days](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/poems-from-previous-days/?md)
- 2011-07-03: [Uberman Day 6 Conclusion](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/uberman-day-6-conclusion/?md)
- 2011-07-02: [Uberman Days 4-5 Roller Coaster](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/uberman-days-4-5-roller-coaster/?md)
- 2011-07-02: [How to Add Daily Awesome to your Life in 2 Easy Steps.](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/add-daily-awesome-to-your-life-in-2-easy-steps/?md)
- 2011-07-02: [30 Day Poem/Song Challenge Day 1](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/30-day-poemsong-challenge/?md)
- 2011-07-01: [Uberman Day 3 Trials](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/07/uberman-day-3-trials/?md)
- 2011-06-30: [Uberman Day 2](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/06/uberman-day-2/?md)
- 2011-06-29: [Uberman Day 1 Finished](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/06/uberman-day-1-finished/?md)
- 2011-06-28: [Uberman Day 1 - Morning](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/06/uberman-day-1-morning/?md)
- 2011-06-28: [Uberman Day Zero](https://malcolmocean.com/2011/06/uberman-day-zero/?md)


---
*(this was copied from https://malcolmocean.com/archives/?as-markdown)*