Jessica Ocean

created 2021-02-02 · edited 2023-12-05 · open in Roam

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Jessica Ocean > people classify someone as having a mental health problem when they are suffering for a reason that doesn't seem to have an external cause
- ...which is in general a failure of imagination, as there are lots of more kinds of external causes than people realize
- ...
- this has me (M) reflecting that insofar as NO such problems exist, all diagnoses of mental health problems are actually themselves delusional and kinda gaslighty
  - I haven't yet found the exact insight-thought here but there's something

Jessica Ocean says that there's an article by Cedric Chin about W. D. Deming solving goodhart's law in the 60s
- aha, found this thread, which also talks about something basically isomorphic to lead & lag measures
  - twitter.com/ejames_c/status/1574794686405185536

from Jessica Ocean - relates to co-consciousness principles
- > ‘I aim to give myself all the love I need, and sometimes I give myself that love via other people’
- > ‘I can diy self-love, and sometimes I’ll be loved by other people and it does the self-love for me’

Jessica Ocean re Marginalia, her social reading app project
- have given some biz/MVP advice & design advice

Jessica Ocean found one, sorta, on tiktok but I'm not sure we can find it again
- it goes something like "sometimes when I'm sad and I don't feel good, then I remember all the shit that's good! this good shit, and this good shit!"