People I’m currently actively looking to work with:
If any of these sounds like you, maybe get in touch! If many of these sound like you, definitely get in touch!
companies or projects using LLMs: I’m pretty good at prompting and at figuring how how to get the LLM the context it needs to be situationally aware for what you’re trying to do. I’d be happy to look over your prompts and make suggestions, or create a proof of concept of something. Feel free to just book a call for an initial exploration of this.
you want a cofounder for a day: sometimes you need some social motivation, but you don’t want to take the risk of giving someone else equity or control. Back in 2021-2022 I tried running a few “21st century barn-raisings“, but those turned out to be hard to coordinate. My latest iteration in this vein is to just have a day where one person is devoted to helping the other on all levels of abstraction. I’m a full-stack generalist. If you hire me for this, then in a single day, I might do not just any but all of the following…
help you figure out emotional blocks to shipping your app
think through some key business choices
help you set up a website
challenge you to make your manifesto bolder
make the onboarding smoother
record or edit a video
do some gruntwork you’ve been avoiding
……point is, we’ll make it happen, together!
music producers: someone to turn the songs I write into tracks. I’m a good songwriter and singer and multi-instrumentalist and even sometimes arranger but I’m like 3/10 at DAWs or whatever. In my ideal world this is not me paying you but us working together excitedly as a duo, sharing rights & profits to the completed track. Contact me for vocal tracks you can play with!
publishers etc: I have some well-regarded original takes on topics like habits, motivation, trust, and I’d love the chance to get some of those ideas (could be new as-yet-unpublished writing) published in popular outlets.
entrepreneurs: I like and am skilled at doing high-level product design (particularly using metaphor) and business model design, and I’ve helped various people get way more clarity about what they’re building. I’ve done this for lifestyle businesses and the biggest startup of 2020.
podcasters: interview me on your podcast! I’m good at talking about stuff. You can ask me to go even deeper into one of the topics I’ve written about, or we can explore how it might apply to your particular situation. If you don’t have a podcast but think we might have a cool conversation about something to record & post to my youtube channel, that’s also a thing I do! Here are the podcast interviews I’ve done.
backend NodeJS dev: my intentionality app Intend could use some stability & performance improvements to the backend, which fits neither my skills nor my appetite.
marketers: there’s probably a ton of low-hanging fruit in terms of getting Intend in front of new people, and I’m not even sure what that would look like. I wrote a thread ideating here.
…assistant+mentee: not sure what this would be but basically if you think my work is super cool and thus it seems like a good deal to take on 3-10 hours per week of helping me with random stuff, for little or no money since I’m not yet rich, let me know and we’ll find a small project to start with to see if that might be a good fit.
The original impetus for making this page was actually to tell marketers not to bother emailing me, but I thought I would make it something beautiful rather than just “go away”. Amplify what you want!
I am not interested in:
guest posts: the name of this site is malcolmocean.com. It’s me. If I want your writing on it, I’ll ask you. Don’t ask me.
marketing deals / promotions: I did one of these exactly once for shits & giggles and it got me some shits & giggles but it’s completely not the point of this website. This site is for sharing my essays, not making money off of irrelevant or tangential product placement. I didn’t even keep the links up for much longer after I got paid.
generica: If you are sending essentially the same cold email to multiple people, I do not want to be one of those people. Doesn’t matter if you customized it slightly.
If you have something you think will be suitable for me, based on this page (even if not listed here) reach out to me on Twitter. (You can email me if you already have my email but I’m more responsive on Twitter anyway.)
