• malcolm charged ppl (friends) for complice before making it

• great question raj re: pay not to use it

• i thought it was funny we had a live case of him failing to remember something :P + struggling to find it

• metaphors for the storage

  • pile
  • queue
  • stack
  • silo
  • gumball machine
  • town :-)

• metaphor for items

  • not tabs
  • intentions

• https://www.inmotion.app/

• why i dont create or learn

  • its not valuable if i dont come back to it / forget it
    • i want to half ass it (do it incrementally) but then its even less valuable, more likely to be forgotten in that case
      • → if i have to be in full ass mode then thats not good enough, too scary
    • → if i cant program myself / remember, then i cant be motivated invest in creation or learning
    • oh wow re excitement: i was skeptical that Roam (as used by Malcolm) could be enough to make me return to what was valuable.
      • BUT even if it wasn't, FALSELY thinking it was would be enough to cause the excitement I'm looking for
        • So software that tricks you into falsely thinking you have much more incentive to learn, think, blah blah, is actually valuable to me

• Raj: re: Malcolm being a designer: "agrippa is a full stack developer"

  • i dont like this dichotomization; i think Malcolm and I enjoy semantic design near-equal amounts and that I'm talented at it. i just get paid a lot to spend a lot of time programming.

• most important thing now: find the 10 people who would pay for the prototype

  • super great advice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • and not advice i would have generated — i would have given it away for free
      • malcolm: "if its not worth actual money to your users, they're not your users" | if you give it away for free, you just get feedback from people who want something else

**Malcolm Ocean**

6:55 PM

[https://malcolmocean.com/2020/10/deadlines-showtimes-time-walls-etc/](https://malcolmocean.com/2020/10/deadlines-showtimes-time-walls-etc/)

relates to half-assed writing, juiciness, liveness

• Malcolm spends a lot of time excited about something and wants to follow that. I spend most of my time not excited and then I reconnect with something i was previously excited about, get excited, and scream.
  • i want incrementalism as A TOOL FOR MAXIMIZING MY EXPERIENCE OF EXCITEMENT!!! like thats why i want it. so this conversation of the priority queue being at odds with excitement is super interesting and making me reframe a lot.
• I notice im finding it really pleasant to write notes / chat contributions without speaking while Raj and Malcolm converse.
  • and I'm noticing that it's also not nearly as draining / i'm no longer feeling like I must exit soon.
• Malcolm's notes https://roamresearch.com/#/app/malcolmocean/page/TZP2ZN0Z-
• should talk with Raj about pitching / pitching to audience re initial misalignment