Tom Kozacinski - Breaking Freelance

Product Designer / Consultant. Speaker. Author. Comedian. Sharing experience on UX, Projects & Growing a 6-figure career. I'm a Mentor I never had.

[Tom Kozacinski - Breaking Freelance @kozacinski]

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!

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

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Hey, you guys remember Threads?

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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.

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@markdrew 🙏🫶

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@ianmiles

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@onejamesbrowne 😅 happens to the best of us.

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@andybudd Real Buddhist wouldn't care. 🙏😅

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We recorded our first episode with a guest.
https://t.co/eiFK6Z1rWZ

First up is @onejamesbrowne - sharing his secrets from a Head of Product and Indie Hacker perspective.
@MarioMucalo

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@nomadinvest Add DMT to water supply.

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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

[Mario Mucalo @MarioMucalo]

That should have been an email! Or maybe it shouldn't have? I wanna make the most of it either way! So does @kozacinski : https://t.co/lLENf9kdw8

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

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

[The Nomad Investor @nomadinvest]

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.

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

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

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@OvalSoftware Absolutely 🥳thank you

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

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

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@ttkalec @kjanusic I see what you did there.