Tom Kozacinski - Breaking Freelance

Welcome to my "professional" account; sharing: 💰 Career & Freelancing 🛠 Product Design 🚀 Business advice 🎨 UX & UI 💌 Breaking Freelance Newsletter & Workshop 🐘 @socratly building in public! Check out the bio link for more info!

@MiklosPhilips @mentorcruise I've been postponing applying for a while. I've seen this retweet from @mentorcruise and have sent in my application! 🙃

Hey, all #ux #ui and #productdesign people! I’m available for mentoring designers on @mentorcruise! Check out my profile and book a session or ongoing #mentoring today! #design #designer #uxdesign #uxdesign #uidesign #productdesign #resume #portfolio mentorcruise.com/mentor/miklosp…

Hey, you guys remember Threads?

If people having an emotional reaction to an app changing its icon isn't a definition of a first-world problem, I don't know what is.

@markdrew 🙏🫶

@kozacinski A kind soul got me an invite. I will pay it forward as soon as I can.

So do I have to post things four times now? What do you enjoy from each platform?

“Youths” are just randomly walking into people’s houses for TikTok fame.

@onejamesbrowne 😅 happens to the best of us.

☠️ “Nah don’t worry, I won’t delete anything by accident” ☠️

@andybudd Real Buddhist wouldn't care. 🙏😅

Q. Is saying #YOLO insensitive towards Buddhists?

We recorded our first episode with a guest. youtu.be/tmu-Aj8Q9tk First up is @onejamesbrowne - sharing his secrets from a Head of Product and Indie Hacker perspective. @MarioMucalo

@nomadinvest Add DMT to water supply.

@kozacinski I think I'm growing convinced that no systemic solution other than a continuous hero 🍄 exposure will bring about the needed transformation :)

Listen here. TAX 98% of profits made through AI and use that money to create UBI. Problem solved. Let me know where I can pick up my Nobel Prize. #AIRevolution

That should have been an email! Or maybe it shouldn't have? I wanna make the most of it either way! So does @kozacinski : youtube.com/watch?v=1LEwrD…

@nomadinvest If I recall correctly, last time you were here we came fairly close with direct meritocracy. Just a few kinks to iron out.

@kozacinski Well, now that you mention it :).

@nomadinvest So, you want me to change the government system with a single tweet while I'm at it? 😅

@kozacinski That's exactly where this is going. However, the distribution of Ai driven productivity gains won't necessarily have to go through the tax system. Govt's traditionally don't really excell in proper capital allocation.

Much of the problems in today's world come from the deterioration of ability to reason and the tendency of the general population to oversimplify and trivialise issues at hand. Some of the contributing factors impairing our ability to reason effectively and objectively are: 1. Decline in critical thinking skills Education systems often prioritize memorization over critical thinking, leaving individuals ill-equipped to analyze complex issues. 2. Echo chambers & confirmation bias Social media & news outlets create echo chambers, reinforcing oversimplification & discouraging diverse perspectives. 3. Soundbite culture Media's focus on attention-grabbing headlines promotes simplified narratives, while emotions overtake logic in forming opinions. 4. Emotional reasoning Emotion-driven opinions and prioritizing personal experiences can lead to resistance in considering alternative views, causing polarization and oversimplification. 5. Decreased attention spans Decreased attention spans make it difficult to engage with complex topics, and misinformation online hinders informed opinions. 6. Misinformation & disinformation The abundance of misleading online information makes it hard to discern reliable sources, leading to oversimplified narratives and uninformed opinions. 7. "Everyone gets a trophy" culture The "everyone gets a trophy" culture diminishes healthy competition, inflates self-esteem, & hinders personal growth, making it difficult to develop reasoning skills. If we're to come back on the right track as a civilisation we need to double down on equipping our societies with critical thinking skills and adressing all of the above issues.

@kjanusic @ttkalec You are still and always and forever with me. In my heart.

Hunger is the ultimate motivation. First company I started with @ttkalec - we were on one bagel and a teabag a day...

@OvalSoftware Absolutely 🥳thank you

@kozacinski Yeah it was fun! I’ve played a few escape room games but this was a bit different, it was just an envelope full of evidence such as SMS conversations, CCTV photos, receipts, police reports etc. I can lend it to you if you want!

It’s Friday night - time to solve a murder!

@onejamesbrowne The trick will be for most people to get out of the house with their own two feet. 😅

@kozacinski The trick is going to be being able to retire at 67.

Life is too great to be waiting to live it when you reach 67 and retire.

@ttkalec @kjanusic I see what you did there.

@kjanusic @kozacinski Aaaah Kris 😂 of course