Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

January 22nd, 2024

edited 2024-01-22 · open in Roam
    • tower of babel situation
    • strategy consultant and biz founder guy
    • did monkmode, bizmode stuff - no kids
    • 4Game lens on M's situation:
      • big long-game role shift to Father
        • going from nomad-student etc
      • short-game is feeling that
      • leadership role to managing things in the future
        • difference between someone on the back foot vs front foot
      • can kinda start anywhere with the leadership / game-shift
    • (getting the sense as I hear him talking about this, of a similar quality to Jean's The Circles Maps, as a kind of simple common-ground)
    • 80/20 with common lingo - we can cover a lot of ground
      • this is helpful... points at something about the opposite of deep sync
    • M > tell me more about how you see the tower of babel situation
      • J > people don't have a holistic lingo to [think together]
        • 4Game helps you from talking past each other on different levels
        • minimum viable holistic system
        • what would captain simple do?
      • consultant/therapist/leader
        • observing the mid game in different contexts
        • pulling out of people their sense of long game
    • M > expressing the sense about Jean's Circles Maps as common ground
      • J > exactly! let's not waste anybody's precious time
    • M > curious about your sense of me
    • "collective ego strength"
    • leaders of the future will need to be more 4Game aware, in whatever lingo
    • "that's the nature of what comes next, it can't not be"
    • the 5 potential futures of Intend
      • could look at each of them through 4Game lens
      • identity, systems, etc
      • what would be in my backpack in this world?
      • what story do I want to be talking about right now?
    • NBF - I had a whole food business
      • holistic revolution -
      • "this [gadget] is not small, it's the beginning of this bigger situation"
      • nesting your own product etc within the larger metaphysics
      • "having a 4 game offer — a deep game, which implies a long game, which implies a mid game, etc"
      • once you've got the gadget, and you're not gonna make the gadget any better, you can situated it better
      • or for a person, you can offer them a clearer context
    • Mt Shasta
      • 50 acres, nature sanctuary
      • putting 4Game institute
      • gyms, office, etc
      • adding cabins
      • be out in the boonies, work on your project
      • hero100