Series: Malcolm Ocean's Non-Naive Trust Dance

I see Malcolm as brilliant, a genius of his own kind and shape and form—and NNTD as an incredible discovery and gift to humanity.

I think that understanding the context in which Malcolm originated the Non-Naive Trust Dance helps to understand it more accurately and deeply.

Malcolm frames his NNTD not merely as a theory or set of practices—which is largely how I’ve related to it myself—but as a law, protocol, and metaprotocol. I’ll discuss and differentiate those terms here.