Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

June 21st, 2023

edited 2023-06-21 · open in Roam
  • Intend book list — books that in some way accord with the Intend philosophy
    • Oliver Burkeman — Four Thousand Weeks
      • talks about doing things in light of mortality
    • Brian Tracy — Eat That Frog
      • “there is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important things.” 
        • the "law of forced efficiency"
    • Niel Fiore — The Now Habit
      • has a principle called the Unschedule which is quite nice which is a way of keeping something like a PhD thesis from taking over your life by first scheduling everything else you care about and focusing on keeping those commitments and not letting eg thesis-work go outside the bounds you've created for it
    • Zig Ziglar's goal-setting stuff
      • Pick Four was a fun workbook but is basically no longer available
      • most of Zig's stuff is tapes I think
  • attempting to explain to Andrew Cutler what I do
    • > and then yeah, my other main thing (in your terms) is deep research into the pragmatics of integrating recursive self-awareness with non-duality, in service of having a kind of collective consciousness that (like pre-snake-cult) is radically transparent and honest and self-evident in its communication, but (unlike pre-snake-cult) is also able to relate to lying & other forms of deception
  • trust & community feedback loop diagram