Malcolm Ocean's roamblog

March 15th, 2021

edited 2021-03-15 · open in Roam
  • looking forward to reading this bit on sensemaking
    • something called Dragon Dreaming
      • oriented towards eliciting everyone's dreams and orienting to how you could have them all come true
        • finding underlying things that can be cared about that aren't in conflict
      • everyone writes activities that we could do that could make all these dreams come true
    • I have an idea for a song that's about unlearning one's old concept of what "love" means, and thought it could be cool to jam on that with you since you've thought about this - seems like a cool way to kinda redo-to-undo wrt love songs
    • like one thing I'm kind of imagining is something like, a few different verses that open with something like "I thought love meant..." from a few different perspectives
    • Qiaochu played with some rap bits
      • i thought love meant obsession
        jonesin for a blessin
        waitin for a savior's behavior to find rest in
        prayin' every day for redemption
        wasn't payin' attention
        to the pain inside, denied, i never learned how to mention
      • "i thought love meant addiction"
  • a friend read 2020: Free to Dance
    • and commented
    • > Also, I liked that you called it a trust dance. In the history of barter, there are a lot of instances of tribes carrying out a trust dance before trading to establish a sense of conviviality and goodwill that acts as the basis for trade with strangers.