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Malcolm Ocean

@malcolmocean.com

🀸 Feral free agent 🎢 Singer-songwriter πŸ’ƒ Trust-dancer πŸ‘ Systems designer 🎯 I crafted https://intend.do to help you be playfully purposeful

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I'm seeing people trickling into @intend.do via this room! I'm not on bsky much these days but don't hesitate to reach out if I can support the room (as creator/maintainer of intend).

eg a bot or something that autoposts to bsky when someone joins the room? idk!

27.03.2025 00:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

mood lol

26.03.2025 23:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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would be cool if linked tweets from twitter got displayed more like quote-tweets, without the giant useless X

06.08.2024 05:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

unfortunately it's mostly both πŸ˜…

bsky.app/profile/malc...

06.08.2024 05:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometime people ask me if I'm joking or serious, or kind of 50/50. I like to aim for simultaneously being mostly-joking and mostly-serious.

06.08.2024 05:41 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

what we need is some AI system that just takes a recorded talk and converts it into a full draft of a paper, with notes on sections that need revising or missing citations

23.07.2024 18:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

coming back to bsky after a year and there still aren't hotkeys?

at least... n doesn't open [new tweet] and ? doesn't show an alternate list of hotkeys

..........

20.06.2024 20:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Intentionality, not productivity - Intend Intend helps people achieve their personal and professional goals, by making consistent progress every day.

hmm okay no request and it also didn't preview anything

testing a fuller url... ah! it doesn't do frontend <meta> tag fetching now. that's an improvement since last year
intend.do/intentionality

20.06.2024 20:40 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

using bluesky to test CORS for intend.do

20.06.2024 20:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

also this is in some importance sense a definition of a "tweet". A twitter is an app that has/emphasizes tweets. By this take, bluesky is slightly more of a twitter atm than twitter.com is, because the latter allows super long posts, which don't compose like tweets do.

14.08.2023 17:51 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hugely in favor of this. Specifically what makes something a twitter afaict is that each utterance is a standalone object that can be amplified & quoted. So anything where comments/replies are stuck to top-level posts is not a twitter.

14.08.2023 17:45 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the way because it actually contributes to the decorporitization of language and turns "tweet" into a genericized word, which is an intrinsic linguistic good

10.08.2023 15:09 πŸ‘ 935 πŸ” 267 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 12

it's actually pretty legit

just make sure you go for the 9 holy ideas instead of the 9 dualistic confusions

11.08.2023 16:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Feral Free Agents coworking Intend helps people achieve their personal and professional goals, by making consistent progress every day.

doing some coworking for the next few hours in this @intend.do room!

11.08.2023 16:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

absolutely. offensive overreach. I have a giant thread on twitter that I call "activism" which is just full of me correcting the spellcheck repeatedly and saying '"X" is a word' for each neologism or novel conjugatory experiment

10.08.2023 03:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wow yeah, hard to do curls!

10.08.2023 03:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

so now that twitter is calling itself "X" and its utterances "posts" & "reposts"......

............can we use "tweet" & "retweet" here?

(real question. probably they could still sue, but how hard would it be to prod Elon into insisting those words are stupid and giving others permission...? πŸ€”)

10.08.2023 02:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mmmm... leadership as like... "intentionality pressure" between people

02.06.2023 03:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

just created a bsky for my app, which has a new name/domain as of today too

celebrated by re-posting this manifesto (that I actually drafted in gdocs but the cadence was already perfect for a thread)

02.06.2023 02:49 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

intentionality, not productivity

02.06.2023 02:38 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Complice has become Intend Why I'm renaming my intentionality app business after nearly 9 years.

I've existed since 2013 but I have a new name now, just in time for my old name to never have an account on bluesky!

Check out the story of why @malcolmocean.com renamed Complice to Intend:

02.06.2023 02:37 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

I hope you're going to make sure that there's at least a type of utterance that is not editable, because that's really important for preserving the sense of playfulness as far as I can tell. it makes it way more improvisational & spontaneous to have it be just "out there now", un-perfect-able

29.05.2023 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

the anti-intellectual? haha

25.05.2023 18:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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you're allowed to grant someone permission that you weren't the one who took away in the first place

25.05.2023 18:15 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

3 intellectual archetypes:
🌲 the hermit β€” doesn't read or watch things, tries to figure it all out themselves
πŸ“– the scholar β€” thoroughly researches everything already written on the topic
😍 the connoisseur β€” improvisationally explores & remixes others' ideas

am I missing any?

22.05.2023 23:41 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
A Grand Vision To Connect Friendly Ambitious Nerds - @visakanv
A Grand Vision To Connect Friendly Ambitious Nerds - @visakanv Visakan Veerasamy is an internet creator and writer, he is passionate about the future of the internet, ideas, and how people can be bolder on their creative journeys. His mission is to build the greatest social graph of friendly, ambitious nerds that the world has ever seen. This is our second conversation and dives much more into his current work and how he thinks about the internet. PODCAST: https://share.transistor.fm/s/59c670c5 Isabel: https://twitter.com/isabelunraveled Michelle: https://twitter.com/mvarghoose Move Better Sam: https://twitter.com/movebettersam Links: Twitter: https://twitter.com/visakanv Website: https://visakanv.com ⏳Timestamps 0:00 Video intro 0:39 Introduction 1:21 Avoiding seeing more of the things Visakan's already familiar with 2:55 Long orbit friendships 6:09 Watching other pathless pathers develop 8:07 Can rooting for people be learned? 9:28 Preemptive defensiveness vs live and let live 13:30 Agreeing with the letter but not the spirit 14:46 The conformist culture of the US 16:30 Having a positive vision vs just being against something 20:41 Posting trajectories, long-term engagement 29:22 Trying to replace income, burnout, and learning patience 33:37 Engaging online 37:07 Micro existential crises 40:53 How is Visakan making money these days? 43:01 Learning to accept help from other people 45:17 Charging based on value, not on prestige 47:27 \

i've been aware of @visakanv.com but had never heard him in conversation--beside the positive, weirdly calming vibes, i love the "creative freestyle world" term for the world/attitude i love inhabiting. also appreciate the transparency on money psychology

https://youtu.be/AZtgPQVNpu8

15.05.2023 22:30 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

nice... ceteris... you've got there
would be a shame if it weren't... paribus

16.05.2023 19:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

hey, wanted to let you know that I'm in there working now (Carnun heading to bed because UK) and that I'll be in there all week and he'll probably be there a lot this week as well
https://complice.co/room/feral

14.05.2023 23:46 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

most people don't know this but the biblical flood actually happened because everyone let their feelings out all at once and all the tears drowned the world

12.05.2023 20:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

the best same page is the one you're already on

rather than trying to "get on the same page", focus on mutually recognizing the ways in which you're not on the same page

14.05.2023 04:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0