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Malcolm Ocean
Personal blog · malcolmocean.com · on HN as malcolmoceanproductivityculture
Malcolm Ocean's personal blog at malcolmocean.com covers productivity and culture. Since 2015, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for a post on charting eBook reading history, including a Bookantt chart built from KOReader's stats database. The comments are mostly personal reactions and do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
culture, change, and mental models
What Hacker News says?
(Creator of complice.co here, summoned by HNWatcher.) I'm glad to see this thread because yeah, most productivity apps are just organization structures that don't support metacognition at all, and so people end up in all kinds of stuck modes. Complice is definitely better, in that for instance it has different phases for planning your day, working, and reflecting on your day, or that if you say you're going to do X…
Comment linking /2017/11/captains-log-ultra-simple-tech-for-self-reflection/
on “How Do Individual Contributors Get Stuck? A Primer (2017)”Submitted “Systems vs. Goals” is silly (2019) as a story · 22 points
HN discussionThis isn't improving mental health, it's just destroying it in a different way than negativity destroys it. Sure, we all want social approval, but this sort of thing is about creating a system to depend on. It seems designed just like other social media, aiming to cause people to feel a need for TBH approval and a social obligation to participate in showing your approval of others. People should drop the entire conc…
Comment linking /2014/07/growth-mindset-reframing/
on “Facebook acquires anonymous teen compliment app tbh, will let it run”Submitted Giving bug reports is easier than giving feature suggestions as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI've found some shifts in my language have helped with this. Here's some examples from a blog post I wrote on this awhile ago: Instead of "Some people are born to be singers—I’m not one of them." ▶ try "I didn’t start with any singing talent—I’ve had to learn it all." Instead of "I suck at math." ▶ try "Math has been challenging for me." Instead of "I’ll never be an artist." ▶ try "I feel really dissatisfied with al…
Comment linking /grow
on “Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?”Submitted Just Do a Thing (that nobody’s expecting you to do) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionKoreader does awesome stats tracking into a SQLite database of every page you’ve read. You even get a calendar view for months showing what you’ve been reading. I have a code snippet that can generate a Bookantt chart[1] from the koreader history DB. (On mobile, ping me if you’d be interested in me cleaning this up and releasing) 1: https://malcolmocean.com/bookreading/
Comment linking /bookreading/
on “Alexandria: A minimalistic cross-platform eBook reader”Submitted WTF Is the Synergic Mode? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI feel this. I have been burned over and over again as well. I desire to trust deeply and build real intimacy with friends and colleagues and lovers, and for many years I was very naive. I trusted anyone who told me they were trustworthy. For me personally, it turned out I have autism (which I didn't realize until age 33), and understanding this helped me understand perhaps why I was being deceived so often. General…
Comment linking /2021/09/non-naive-trust-dance-why-the-name/
on “Confronting Failure as a Core Life Skill”Submitted Confronting and forgiving the people who instilled fear in my heart as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hugging Strangers in Airports as a story · 1 points
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