washing away the possibility of sin (Original Spin jam pt4) @malcolm_ocean

Malcolm Ocean with @Morphenius

This is part of a series of videos where we're thinking out loud about a new meme we're trying to craft that helps people untangle their own pain from psy-oppy narratives. They're us thinking at our own edge, not presentations for new audiences.

Here are the earlier vids on Original Spin:
1: youtu.be/6Ykr2XLpPXE
2: youtu.be/Ds_18ww7XhU
3: youtu.be/x_giHvRb2hs

updated 2 years ago

washing away *the possibility* of sin (Original Spin jam pt4)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-12-29 | with @Morphenius

This is part of a series of videos where we're thinking out loud about a new meme we're trying to craft that helps people untangle their own pain from psy-oppy narratives. They're us thinking at our own edge, not presentations for new audiences.

Here are the earlier vids on Original Spin:
1: youtu.be/6Ykr2XLpPXE
2: youtu.be/Ds_18ww7XhU
3: youtu.be/x_giHvRb2hs

Interoception: the visceral compass was within you all along (with Michael Smith)

Malcolm Ocean 2025-08-29 | Michael mentioned to me that he'd found a much better inner compass, and I wanted to ask him about it and figured I'd share it with the internet!

MHC • Model of Hierarchical Complexity • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_of_hierarchical_complexity
Andrew Cutler:
• my remix of his work: malcolmocean.com/2023/07/superego-conflict-and-evolution
• great article: vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cult-of-consciousness
• our convo with him: vectorsofmind.com/p/malcolm-ocean-and-michael-smith-3

Original Spin • youtube.com/watch?v=6Ykr2XLpPXE&t=5785s
Hostile telepaths problem • morphenius.substack.com/p/the-hostile-telepaths-problem

Michael and I are roommates now so we don't have as many zoom calls! A sad loss for youtube. But he was travelling and we had a short call where we threw on a recording!

collective IFS Self and the evolution of fairness (with Divia Eden)

Malcolm Ocean 2025-06-26 | links:
• We-ness original instructions: goldencobra.org/pdf/2018/Kong%20Selke%20Vanderpool%20Edelman%20--%20The%20We-ness.pdf
• someone's write-up of the we-ship experiment that I ran (the one where we did the "goodbye for now, Malcolm") xenocognition.com/p/who-captains-the-we-ship
• A Positive Account of Property Rights: http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Academic/Property/Property.html

Divia's substack: mutualunderstanding.substack.com/p/malcolm-ocean-and-i-talk-about-collective
Divia's twitter: twitter.com/diviacaroline

Auto-generated show notes
00:00 Exploring Internal Family Systems and WeSpace
03:01 Collective Selfness and Group Dynamics
06:00 The We-Ship Experiment: Collective Consciousness
08:59 Navigating Individuality within Collectivity
11:58 Fractal Nature of Selfness in Groups
15:02 Understanding Self-Energy in Group Contexts
17:55 Projection and Responsibility in Group Dynamics
20:49 Defining Boundaries: What is Us and What is Not Us?
27:00 Navigating Relevance in Conversations
29:55 The Dynamics of Group Triggers
32:57 Exploring Collective Self and Shame
36:12 Understanding Boundaries and Ownership
39:00 Moral Layers in Property and Boundaries
41:54 The Complexity of Group Dynamics
44:58 Fairness and Communication Styles
55:58 Earning Attention and Communication Dynamics
57:03 Navigating Group Dynamics and Proactive Engagement
59:00 Establishing Boundaries in Communication
59:51 Finding Solutions in Parenting and Communication
01:00:55 The Importance of Shared Information in Conversations
01:03:05 Addressing Safety and Container Dynamics
01:03:59 Self-Sustaining Dynamics in Group Settings
01:05:55 The Role of Leadership in Group Containers
01:07:54 Exploring Collective Self and Attunement
01:10:01 Unpacking Self and Group Dynamics
01:11:57 Ego Awareness and Self-Modeling in Conversations

Shame comes from mislabelling your problem as yourself (with Sílvia Bastos & @Morphenius)

Malcolm Ocean 2025-05-21 | A conversation with Sílvia Bastos and Michael Smith ( ⁨@Morphenius⁩ ) where Michael and I are explaining our idea of Original Spin to Sílvia in the context of her amazingly illustrated SHAME book, which explores how people release shame. Get your copy (and help support her to make it! on Kickstarter: kickstarter.com/projects/thisissilvia/shame-an-illustrated-book

Original Spin, in a nutshell, is about how people get tied in knots by shame, but shame is actually a confused mislabelling of your own pain or your own problem, making you think that instead of HAVING a problem, you ARE a problem. By learning to unwind it, you can avoid a bunch of unnecessary suffering.

If you dig this video and want to learn more about Original Spin, check out
• original Original Spin video (linked to partway through where the good part starts) youtube.com/watch?v=6Ykr2XLpPXE&t=5785s
• 10min vid re Spin and feeling free: youtube.com/watch?v=baXQzPpDZwU

Find us on Twitter:
🐦 twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean
🐦 twitter.com/this_is_silvia
🐦 twitter.com/Morphenius

turns out I wasnt abdicating my responsibility, I was reading my babys mind

Malcolm Ocean 2025-02-27 | ...

Whats my Theory Of Change of others Theory of Change? (with @Morphenius )

Malcolm Ocean 2025-02-20 | Notes Malcolm took mid-convo:
(tagged concepts can be found at https://www.intertwingled.blog/)
- [[everything makes sense]] / [[everyone is always doing whatever makes the most sense to them]]
- impossible to just be stupid
- [["stupid" as "not worth bothering to reason with, negotiate with, sensemaking with"]]
- survival & thrival systems - thankful theory article: astralcodexten.com/p/triple-tragedy-and-thankful-theory
- Michael's thread on subjective science: xcancel.com/Morphenius/status/1882915301635063877
- testable claims
- "something I can afford [the consequences of]"
- (huh, what about things that ARE bigger leaps of faith? people claim these exist. I'm suspicious of them)
- arms race if you insist on "finding out" why - hostile telepaths: lesswrong.com/posts/5FAnfAStc7birapMx/the-hostile-telepaths-problem
- Law of Intelligence / Law of Life
- all life is an instantiation of a know-how of solving problems
- "trust-building process" = "doing science"
- this kind of muddle is the sign of an anti-meme
- distrust is a description of resistance
- NNTD in practice pivots on tracking distrust
- the equivalent place in what I'm doing is tracking whether there's a problem
- but they are not the same structure

For stuff on the "what problem are you solving?" etc, check out David Deutsch's work, maybe particularly his book The Fabric of Reality which is what Michael has been reading lately that inspired all the Subjective Science stuff. Link here: amzn.to/3Qu1y4U

Premature Intimacy Bids and how to make them smoother

Malcolm Ocean 2024-08-26 | conversation with my friend Johnson about pitfalls of circling, authentic relating, etc

who bears the costs of whose learning? with @Kytael

Malcolm Ocean 2024-08-25 | a few things I jotted down mid-convo, & links:
---------
loss of innocence
political common-ground: maybe we all can agree that we don't want people to have to bear the costs of others' learning that they didn't sign up to bear
gift someone couldn't know to ask for
repetition legitimizes
whose job is this? malcolmocean.com/2023/08/whose-job-is-this
- who signed up for this?
- who pays for this?
inversion: who gets to learn from this mistake?
memetic/bio evolution: see The Secret of our Success slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success
Malcolm Collins podcast interview: open.spotify.com/episode/0g3qGRww4L9qiNsJdEJxru?si=ff89fd0ad2c14895
"war is interested in you": originally "the dialectic" (en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky)

Is coercion efficient? Or made of goodharting? (with @IvanVendrov )

Malcolm Ocean 2024-08-01 | Sections, loosely tagged:
0:00 intro, background context
3:40 can Ivan control Malcolm?
5:25 professional examples of interpersonal control
17:00 traps along the way
22:30 depression from stopping coercive motivation without already having joyful motivation
27:28 Roman use of "discipline" & "virtue"
32:40 how to measure motivational efficiency
34:15 coercion has goodhart built-in: washing the dishes 🧼🍽️
41:40 jobs you love, jobs you hate
52:30 internal conflict causes stuckness & oscillations
58:00 pre-coercive culture got outcompeted
1:02:50 aiming for a new thing that feels better
1:07:45 propaganda against your animal
1:12:00 theology: does reality punish/coerce you?
1:16:20 early history of science
1:19:50 limits of cultural propaganda
1:22:00 cultural knowledge greater than individual secret of our success
1:27:40 overcoordinated overshoulded
1:30:00 cultural transition phases
1:35:30 research agenda: the shift
1:37:45 law of conservation of coercion?
1:41:30 our equiv of "drosophilia" for testing

Background links:
- Ivan's: nothinghuman.substack.com/p/searching-for-the-root-of-the-tree
- mine: malcolmocean.com/2022/12/coercion-in-terms-of-scarcity-pct
- Ch18 of B:CP PCT book: docs.google.com/document/d/1iXQJ3Tc36RNgser2a1E27bW3G3qrWzJ3QhRCMAEMHDM/edit

Links/resources mentioned:
Trinley Goldenberg re non-coercive motivation: https://x.com/mattgoldenberg/status/1819122821273989454
Virginia Valian's "Learning to Work": tinyurl.com/vv-l2w
essay from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on Roman Virtues: https://acoup.blog/2024/03/29/fireside-friday-march-29-2024-on-roman-values/
coercion has goodhart built-in
compromise - halfway between goals, neither satisfied
Planetary scale vibe collapse: smoothbrains.net/posts/2022-08-24-planetary-scale-vibe-collapse.html
andrew cutler - cultural diffusion: vectorsofmind.com/p/evidence-for-global-cultural-diffusion

wolf's conception of the abrahamic god as that which stands in for real reality
reality doesn't punish you: palladiummag.com/2023/07/13/dont-learn-your-values-from-society
early history of science
loving cosmos - see this video on the supercooperation cluster: youtu.be/X6MYsKeTjKk
Secret of our Success: slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/04/book-review-the-secret-of-our-success
Richard Ngo "overcoordinated"
Jean-Paul Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism: marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/works/exist/sartre.htm
**"I'm free to do whatever I want"**
for understanding origins of lying/coercion, check out here: vectorsofmind.com/p/eve-theory-of-consciousness-v3
lots of models talk about a big transition from pre-coercion to coercion to post-coercion; here's one: context.org/foundation-stones
here's a piece on the current transition https://www.gameb.wiki/index.php?title=Game_B

"cybernetics or computational model of coordination that is too vague in both of our minds for us to really get at the crux of our disagreement"

research agenda: can we characterize in a clear way, why it was that the coercive pattern won out over the ancestral vibe-based pattern?

Free Energy Principle & active inference—in first person! (with Xiq aka ExGenesis)

Malcolm Ocean 2024-05-03 | A conversation with my friend Xiq (twitter.com/ExGenesis)

0:00 Malcolm's experimental church
8:20 M: "I don't believe in beliefs"; my "sense of things"
20:00 ish - translating from words to sense
23:30 active inference intro & initial tensions
38:00 M's concerns: "it feels dissociative"
39:00 emptiness, insight meditation, dangerous language
41:30 capgras delusion: my video on that+trust youtu.be/TX2gwG6fk5k
43:45 these theories don't say "hi" to me
48:33 Xiq: I'm trying to sense your dissonance. what values are getting stepped on?
49:46 M: beauty of shifting into first person
53:00 "the model you are": desires in terms of active inference
56:22 NNTD: everything makes sense from its own perspective
1:02:04 principle of how the cosmos unfolds: NNTD, FEP
1:03:00 can we make it more precise while keeping it in first person
1:06:00 recursive element of self-model
1:20:30 wrapping up: roles of church

nothing needs to be sitting in our attention in any particular way (with Daniel)

Malcolm Ocean 2024-03-28 | ...

intentionality software, matteringness, & metaphor design - w Sari Azout

Malcolm Ocean 2024-03-07 | Sari's product Sublime: https://sublime.app/
my product Intend: https://intend.do/
the "intentionality manifesto": https://intend.do/intentionality

Follow Sari on Twitter: twitter.com/sariazout
The tweet she mentions: "music is a promise that you aren't listening alone" twitter.com/sariazout/status/1674577271330418689

Seeing Deeper Truths Together - 2023 LWCW keynote by Malcolm Ocean

Malcolm Ocean 2024-03-04 | A talk I gave Sept 2023 at the LessWrong Community Weekend near Berlin. This video is way more edited than most of my videos (using Descript) which I think on net is good but lmk if the cuts to remove filler words feel more distracting than it's worth. I also apologize for how reverby the audio is: I tried making a higher-quality recording but I lost the mp3 somehow in moving around. I'll do better for future talks!

Timeline:
0:00 intro
1:05 interactive experiment
3:39 parallax & stereopsis
9:44 are senses true?
13:50 Unflattening — amzn.to/3TjoAxN
14:29 3D→2D projections — civilizationemerging.com/higher-dimensional-thinking
16:51 a new principle of thinking
23:14 people have perspectives
26:14 co-epistemic status tags
29:41 obviousness
34:38 depth perception & synthesis
36:11 "what have you bridged?"
46:16 crazy worldviews come from others denying the obvious
49:42 "I can tell for myself" vs "I'll take your word for it" — malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-tell-for-myself
52:47 communication breakdowns
53:25 the meta-protocol — malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-protocol-for-trust-building
54:32 the "you go first" problem
54:47 3 Steps for Empowered Dialogue
1:03:07 honoring defensiveness
1:08:26 what does it mean to take your own perspective?
1:12:58 it's all differences of perspective, not opinion
1:13:30 end of talk + Q&A

Paste clipboard manager (not a paid endorsement it's just great) — pasteapp.io

really easy to reflect and review (thoughts after 40 days using intend.do)

Malcolm Ocean 2024-01-08 | Check out Intend yourself: https://intend.do/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=user_mahmoud&utm_medium=video

2:00 before intend: fragmented backlogs
4:26 how has using intend changed your routine/daily workflow?
6:00 that feeling at the start & end of the day
8:09 trust your morning self
10:34 weekly & monthly reviews
12:19 you don't need to already have clear goals

turn towards the smashed lamp, not towards the fear of social punishment (Original Spin w Andrew R)

Malcolm Ocean 2024-01-08 | The earlier Original Spin videos are all out-loud development. This one is a bit more me sharing the idea afresh.

Humble note: neither Andrew and I are yet parents—soon tho! This is us speculating on what kinds of responses we might want to have in a particular kind of situation, not suggesting that everybody should already (ha!) know how to do this—or even that everybody would want to respond the same way.

Here are the earlier vids on Original Spin:
1: youtu.be/6Ykr2XLpPXE
2: youtu.be/Ds_18ww7XhU
3: youtu.be/x_giHvRb2hs
4: youtu.be/jzn84Dx6__o

Tweets mentioned:
1. the one about the girl and the slushie: twitter.com/darcyjae/status/1486372551316189185
2. mine, about absolving sin and showing my work: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1738020537958588898

Its 2024! Come orient to your year with me this upcoming weekend?

Malcolm Ocean 2024-01-01 | Learn more and sign up: https://intend.do/event/bgi?yt=moNYDvid

sensuous freedom is in the senses (Original Spin jam pt3)

Original Spin jam pt2 - unwinding with gnosis: what if good is good & bad is bad & you just admit it

Malcolm Ocean 2023-12-29 | context: first Original Spin video: youtu.be/6Ykr2XLpPXE
this video, and that one, are more he and I jamming out loud, than trying to present ideas to the unfamiliar
with @Morphenius

also there's like 20s of nothing in particular right around 30mins in. I tried to edit it out but the video file kept breaking and it was either post as-is or not at all.

it feels good to feel free, and thats why to do it. not because I should

Malcolm Ocean 2023-12-16 | ...

revealing The Original Spin: how superegos trick egos into backing a narrative, not their ids

Malcolm Ocean 2023-11-29 | With my friend and fellow evolution-of-culture researcher @Morphenius . We use a lot of technical terms and high-context references in this conversation, and mostly don't slow down to introduce it (even though we intended from the outset to post it to youtube). We're at our own edge here, unpacking an insight we had together a few weeks ago.

0:00:00 muddling around
1:36:25 a "from scratch" intro

(^ maybe a better start)

Below are some links that might be helpful context. The first one might be particularly vital for making sense of what we're talking about here. It sort of frames why we're talking about id/ego/superego and how those relate to memetic evolution.

⭑ "the superegos have gone crazy": malcolmocean.com/2023/07/superego-conflict-and-evolution
— Andrew Cutler's Snake Cult article: vectorsofmind.com/p/the-snake-cult-of-consciousness
— David Deutsch's Evolution of Culture essay: takingchildrenseriously.com/the-evolution-of-culture
— "bad is good, actually" psy-op: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1728855933412049308
— article about haka and human superorganisms: meltingasphalt.com/music-in-human-evolution
— PCT/Perceptual Control Theory: docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vQeH3WQyIkcjZS_aN8-n9mr3ANWIzrUQGDHqjGUDIkeZsjx4hqqj1tD8dVORMbiM0PDR_uOgAOK3a6T/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=5000&slide=id.g951aeabe76_0_0
— "Adaptive Entropy": lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oivifjgFbnvc/slack-matters-more-than-any-outcome
— "gnosis": malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-tell-for-myself
— Gen3 OS vid link: youtube.com/watch?v=NeN34rquMhY
^ this last link may highlight a lot of the context of why this all matters to Michael and me, and what our vision is of what's possible

If you want to read the notes I took during the convo, they're here:
https://www.intertwingled.blog/#/app/malcolmocean/page/QJ5Jw1LAk

literally Im just trying to say a simple thing! — subtle stories that motivate my trust research

Malcolm Ocean 2023-11-23 | Some related videos:
— dream mashups: youtu.be/vyMexLN0A28
— self-validation: youtu.be/0bOy-3omSS0
— memetic OS upgrade: youtu.be/NeN34rquMhY
— (dis)trust & ego: youtu.be/eaMg9_pav-o
— Non-Naive Trust Dance (1.5h on the Stoa): youtu.be/JAxq96Fc0lE

Related blog posts:
— NNTD name explained: malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-naive-trust-dance-why-the-name
— the meta-protocol: malcolmocean.com/2021/11/meta-protocol-for-trust-building
— on coercion & PCT: malcolmocean.com/2022/12/coercion-in-terms-of-scarcity-pct
— NNTD onepager: malcolmocean.com/2023/06/explain-nntd-right-fckn-now

Vicegrips are like Men but for Men #funny #shorts #vicegrips #tools

Malcolm Ocean 2023-11-02 | ...

Malcolm & Romeo re supercooperation cluster, gnosis, preference aggregation, &++

Malcolm Ocean 2023-09-15 | Links (and couple of notes with no links)
- vid with Aneesh that we're riffing on: youtu.be/X6MYsKeTjKk
- meta-protocol quine tweet: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1577195956298473477
- Polis: Input crowd, output meaning: https://pol.is
- Convergent Facilitation: convergentfacilitation.org
- SimPol (Simultaneous Policy) - I liked this podcast interview: jimruttshow.com/john-bunzl
- "common currencies & separate ends":
- "all techniques have the same goal, which is to cast a Summon Sapience spell": lesswrong.com/posts/tahymCqG9jCJtiy4F/sapient-algorithms
- Alexander Technique - recent vid by me: youtu.be/yj0C0dhJrEY
- David Chapman article "Non-statement ain't-framework": https://vividness.live/non-statement
- I can tell for myself: malcolmocean.com/2023/11/i-can-tell-for-myself
- gnosis & hodological maps tweet: twitter.com/chaosprime/status/1271895702499721217
- hypercube poem: we couldn't find it! comment below if you know
- "you can't trust what you can't trust" - short video by me on this: youtu.be/uanL3Pzkcx0
- this blog post of mine very relevant to this whole thing: malcolmocean.com/2022/10/open-letter-convening-an-ontario-meta-protocol-jam
- prayer - desire for deliverance from suffering is often available even in very contracted states (except eg blind terror)
- short vid of Jordan Hall talking about the meta-protocol: youtube.com/watch?v=Y8obOMa7Hqo
- Malcolm & Romeo discuss [[thinking that rejects other thinking]] and many related topics: youtu.be/v3-4RxWlx2A

Alexander Technique is infuriatingly simple and impossible to explain

Malcolm Ocean 2023-09-15 | https://intend.do - app for cultivating freedom

Videos:
Peter Nobes with Tasshin: youtu.be/_O0jHEHb0As
Michael Ashcroft:
youtu.be/MXM1h55q5zI

the best #todo is in the world, not on a list #intentionality

Malcolm Ocean 2023-09-04 | ...

Nowtender: tiny low-tech high-powered intention tracker

Malcolm Ocean 2023-08-17 | The Intend app: https://intend.do

The template: docs.google.com/presentation/d/10mPjQLrm2Kiu0YelwVghm4V7_DXDnQvNXfcBIiEEVso/edit?usp=drivesdk

...but seriously unless you have a printer super handy just start with a sharpie on a blank sheet! Don't let "doing it right" get in the way of doing it at all!

pillowtalk

Malcolm Ocean 2023-08-16 | unrelatedly, except in the sense in which everything is related
I made an app for becoming more intentional: https://intend.do/?yt=pt

to Andrew Rose - tradeoffs in collective consciousness & ambitious team projects

Malcolm Ocean 2023-07-05 | Andrew tweets interesting stuff! twitter.com/__drewface

how to obliterate 100 open tabs (& other sneaky stale todo lists 🥸)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-06-21 | Intend App—the to-do list that never goes stale: https://intend.do/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=staletabs

Sometimes intentions get stuck because theyre impossible given the constraints

Malcolm Ocean 2023-06-17 | The Intend app, for orienting to what matters to you:
https://intend.do

Upcoming workshops, if you want support orienting to decisions like this:
https://intend.do/event/gci?yt=impossible

Fabricated options article: lesswrong.com/posts/gNodQGNoPDjztasbh/lies-damn-lies-and-fabricated-options

Announcing Complices rebrand to Intend (& thoughts on intentionality)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-06-16 | the story of the rebrand: intentionality.substack.com/p/complice-is-now-intend

check out the app: https://intend.do/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=announce

comment below if you have questions on intentionality or topics you'd like to hear me explore, and I'll make a new vid responding!

GCI ➔ Beyond Goals? how shall our workshop evolve? (with Rob Hardy & Sarah McManus)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-06-07 | Sarah's recent thread: twitter.com/SarahAMcManus/status/1665169710487355392
& message to Rob that led to this call: twitter.com/SarahAMcManus/status/1665194783239999490

the existing Intentionality manifesto I mention: https://intend.do/intentionality
check out the GCI workshop itself: https://intend.do/event/gci?yt=msr

Rob's Burrito-Based Pricing™: ungated.thrivecart.com/burrito

Trust & Ego (conversation with Romeo Stevens)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-05-13 | Romeo and I were at a retreat and he wanted to hear what I was on about re trust, so I explained it. I was really satisfied with how it turned out.

My friend George was also present and chimes in at a few points.

I dont have an inner you, I have a sense of you — youre in the world

Malcolm Ocean 2023-05-11 | Previous video about myself being in the world:
youtu.be/Tc0j2KDT7ho

turns out my insides are in the world 😅 (a nondual shift?)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-04-28 | Relevant links below!

Two posts by Sasha Chapin
1. one about an experience of his that feels similar to what I'm going through although he frames it as a shift from "out there" to "in here" and mine feels in some ways the opposite: sashachapin.substack.com/p/when-my-existence-inverted-instantly
2. A Non-Definitive Non-Guide to Non-Duality: sashachapin.substack.com/p/a-non-definitive-non-guide-to-non

My friend Romeo Stevens: twitter.com/RomeoStevens76

A Cartoon Epistemology (a short illustrated exploration of where perception is located)
http://slehar.com/wwwRel//cartoonepist/cartoonepist.html

One of the main recent meditations I've been doing:
youtube.com/watch?v=GmVo9LxJA3o
The "We" exercise I did was based on this pdf: http://www.goldencobra.org/pdf/2018/Kong%20Selke%20Vanderpool%20Edelman%20--%20The%20We-ness.pdf

A lot of this shift has involved experiencing expanded awareness, including being way more aware of space and the space behind me rather than just what I'm looking at, which rhymes with my friend Michael Ashcroft's stuff, eg here: youtube.com/watch?v=OdgbXWKg7Ps

the next buddha-sangha with Brother Spirit from Plum Village (pt1)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-04-08 | notes on this convo: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/Qi-9y0AnH

pt2: youtu.be/k1pQRLXaXI4

Brother Spirit on Twitter: twitter.com/brspirituality

the next buddha-sangha with Brother Spirit from Plum Village (pt2)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-04-08 | notes on this convo: roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/Qi-9y0AnH

pt1: youtu.be/EYYTQGWbtvE

Brother Spirit on Twitter: twitter.com/brspirituality

Take a Moment (short guided meditation)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-04-01 | ...

the problem is: we cant talk about it & the nature of judgment (my work & the meta-crisis)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-03-23 | the Meta-Crisis Meta-Resource: metacrisis.org

Capgras delusion is when distrust becomes a positive claim

Malcolm Ocean 2023-03-21 | Non-Naive Trust Dance intro & Q&A youtube.com/watch?v=JAxq96Fc0lE
The essence of NNTD: you can't trust what you can't trust youtube.com/watch?v=uanL3Pzkcx0

An interactive demo of intentionality (riffing on @m_ashcroft )

Malcolm Ocean 2023-03-20 | Michael Ashcroft's course: expandingawareness.org/courses
The specific video I was riffing on was "Identify the moon, not the finger"
The Complice app: complice.co
Article about intentionality: complice.co/intentionality

"PCT" refers to Perceptual Control Theory
Here's an earlier video I made directed to Michael Ashcroft, riffing on some PCT-related ideas youtu.be/aLn6UeIYjYM
And here's an ebook that is a great intro to PCT: drive.google.com/file/d/17X2Zdv5q4Mq4rm0BtXpnWftn88E8uLkG/view?usp=sharing

The opposite of Circling is Pretending (with Matt Arnold of Fluidity Audiobooks)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-03-09 | Convo with Matt Arnold, Fluidity Audiobooks,
twitter.com/@FluidityAudio
fluidity.libsyn.com

Inspired by this tweet: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1628677805293846529

A few relevant links:
Matt's Fluidity Forum event: fluidityforum.org
My post about Fractal Home: malcolmocean.com/2021/10/fractal-home
My NNTD framework: malcolmocean.com/2021/09/non-naive-trust-dance-why-the-name

to @Morphenius - maybe OG Buddhism wasnt fractal/memetics-based enough?

Malcolm Ocean 2023-03-06 | Vervaeke ep 13: youtube.com/watch?v=vGB8k7jk1AQ
Michael's post on adaptive entropy: lesswrong.com/posts/xEHy9oivifjgFbnvc/slack-matters-more-than-any-outcome

The internet isnt the problem, its sites & apps that show you stuff you didnt ask for

Malcolm Ocean 2023-02-07 | I avoid the youtube app because it's constantly bombarding me with random stuff I didn't ask for. I would actually open it more if I could go straight to my downloads, but I risk getting ambushed on the way there.

One tip for this is to go straight for what you're looking for with a search.

Relevant links:
- what kinds of distractions are good for your focus? complice.co/articles/centering-distractions-are-good-for-focus
- how to start on the most important thing each day? complice.co/articles/how-to-start-on-the-most-important-thing-first

you are free to do whatever you want (and deal with the consequences)

Malcolm Ocean 2023-01-31 | aka "fundamental freedom"

Read more about intentionality: complice.co/intentionality

Check out Complice—the todo list that never goes stale, and keeps you in touch with your long-term goals every day: complice.co

Sunrise workout to GOOD by Jocko Willink + Akira + reflections on learner mindset

Malcolm Ocean 2023-01-22 | Original music: youtube.com/watch?v=CGh3KDkonQE
Where I tweeted my plan: twitter.com/Malcolm_Ocean/status/1610809806243377154

More on learner mindset: youtube.com/watch?v=Ub4_krqEW4U

Check out Complice—the todo list that never goes stale, and keeps you in touch with your long-term goals every day: complice.co

its magical... to be intentional about your year, in a community — Christo re GCI workshop

Malcolm Ocean 2022-12-09 | Christo reflects on his experience of regularly going to the goal-crafting intensive workshops

Upcoming GCIs: complice.co/event/gci?yt=chrFull

Check out Complice—the todo list that never goes stale, and keeps you in touch with your long-term goals every day: complice.co

How Complice helped Sam have a better sense of what hes doing with his life, & take more initiative

Malcolm Ocean 2022-12-06 | Unedited video of me talking with one of the people who regularly uses Complice, the intentionality app I created. Learn more & sign up here: complice.co

Conscious cultural evolution, stories, and designing the religion that is not a religion

Malcolm Ocean 2022-12-06 | ...

In which I enjoy looking at something beautiful & dont show you what it is & this is Good Actually™

Malcolm Ocean 2022-12-02 | ...