Colin
@colinfreed.bsky.social
Seek truth and you will find it, but it’s up to you to decide if you like what you’ve found.
Productivity for the sake of productivity is dumb. It’s like thinking that spending more time shitting is better.
No, that’s awful.
I want to make one nice, big shit per day. It’s more meaningful, fulfilling.
I don’t want to increase the pace of my shitting so I can hurry up & take another one
No, that’s awful.
I want to make one nice, big shit per day. It’s more meaningful, fulfilling.
I don’t want to increase the pace of my shitting so I can hurry up & take another one
December 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Productivity for the sake of productivity is dumb. It’s like thinking that spending more time shitting is better.
No, that’s awful.
I want to make one nice, big shit per day. It’s more meaningful, fulfilling.
I don’t want to increase the pace of my shitting so I can hurry up & take another one
No, that’s awful.
I want to make one nice, big shit per day. It’s more meaningful, fulfilling.
I don’t want to increase the pace of my shitting so I can hurry up & take another one
Seeing garages full of junk that nobody ever uses pleases the money-number-economy god.
And it is our duty to increase productivity so garages and storage units may be ever more filled as an offering to Their greatness.
#NumberGoUp #economy #productivity
And it is our duty to increase productivity so garages and storage units may be ever more filled as an offering to Their greatness.
#NumberGoUp #economy #productivity
December 8, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Seeing garages full of junk that nobody ever uses pleases the money-number-economy god.
And it is our duty to increase productivity so garages and storage units may be ever more filled as an offering to Their greatness.
#NumberGoUp #economy #productivity
And it is our duty to increase productivity so garages and storage units may be ever more filled as an offering to Their greatness.
#NumberGoUp #economy #productivity
Kalshi odds showing on CNN news reports is peak spectacle. Idiocracy didn’t even go to the extreme of society itself becoming a betting game. Ugh.
#society #spectacle #idiocracy
#society #spectacle #idiocracy
December 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Kalshi odds showing on CNN news reports is peak spectacle. Idiocracy didn’t even go to the extreme of society itself becoming a betting game. Ugh.
#society #spectacle #idiocracy
#society #spectacle #idiocracy
the current system doesn’t just fail to produce beauty, it actively punishes the creation of anything that doesn’t maximize:
• predictability
• scalability
• liquidity
• resale value
• neutral, generic appeal
#latestagecapitalism #culture #bland
• predictability
• scalability
• liquidity
• resale value
• neutral, generic appeal
#latestagecapitalism #culture #bland
November 24, 2025 at 5:24 PM
the current system doesn’t just fail to produce beauty, it actively punishes the creation of anything that doesn’t maximize:
• predictability
• scalability
• liquidity
• resale value
• neutral, generic appeal
#latestagecapitalism #culture #bland
• predictability
• scalability
• liquidity
• resale value
• neutral, generic appeal
#latestagecapitalism #culture #bland
Managers who rely on superficial metrics do so because:
•They don’t understand the work.
•They’re afraid of losing control.
•They’re optimizing for looking like a manager.
•They lack frameworks for real leadership.
This is status anxiety disguised as professionalism.
#leadership #management
•They don’t understand the work.
•They’re afraid of losing control.
•They’re optimizing for looking like a manager.
•They lack frameworks for real leadership.
This is status anxiety disguised as professionalism.
#leadership #management
November 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Managers who rely on superficial metrics do so because:
•They don’t understand the work.
•They’re afraid of losing control.
•They’re optimizing for looking like a manager.
•They lack frameworks for real leadership.
This is status anxiety disguised as professionalism.
#leadership #management
•They don’t understand the work.
•They’re afraid of losing control.
•They’re optimizing for looking like a manager.
•They lack frameworks for real leadership.
This is status anxiety disguised as professionalism.
#leadership #management
Sometimes I feel like technology is a rapidly rising jenga tower becoming ever less stable at the bottom. And all the new pieces on the top really aren’t making anything better…
#tech #diminishingreturns #bloat
#tech #diminishingreturns #bloat
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Sometimes I feel like technology is a rapidly rising jenga tower becoming ever less stable at the bottom. And all the new pieces on the top really aren’t making anything better…
#tech #diminishingreturns #bloat
#tech #diminishingreturns #bloat
Tech, as it’s currently trending, is aiming to satiate human needs at the lowest possible effort (and quality/richness, in effect). It isn’t cultivating human flourishing. It isn’t regenerating purpose and meaning.
This needs to change
#tech #humanity #WhatAreWeDoing
This needs to change
#tech #humanity #WhatAreWeDoing
October 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Tech, as it’s currently trending, is aiming to satiate human needs at the lowest possible effort (and quality/richness, in effect). It isn’t cultivating human flourishing. It isn’t regenerating purpose and meaning.
This needs to change
#tech #humanity #WhatAreWeDoing
This needs to change
#tech #humanity #WhatAreWeDoing
If you ever notice how…performative…everything has become, it’s because
Late systems tend to:
1.Codify themselves — institutions ossify into ritual.
2.Commodify novelty — innovation becomes a marketing layer.
Late systems tend to:
1.Codify themselves — institutions ossify into ritual.
2.Commodify novelty — innovation becomes a marketing layer.
October 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If you ever notice how…performative…everything has become, it’s because
Late systems tend to:
1.Codify themselves — institutions ossify into ritual.
2.Commodify novelty — innovation becomes a marketing layer.
Late systems tend to:
1.Codify themselves — institutions ossify into ritual.
2.Commodify novelty — innovation becomes a marketing layer.
Will AI mitigate or accelerate collapse from over complexity?
My guess is the later. It will inflate complexity faster than it can help manage the already bloated levels of complexity we find ourselves in.
#AI #complexity #systems
My guess is the later. It will inflate complexity faster than it can help manage the already bloated levels of complexity we find ourselves in.
#AI #complexity #systems
October 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Will AI mitigate or accelerate collapse from over complexity?
My guess is the later. It will inflate complexity faster than it can help manage the already bloated levels of complexity we find ourselves in.
#AI #complexity #systems
My guess is the later. It will inflate complexity faster than it can help manage the already bloated levels of complexity we find ourselves in.
#AI #complexity #systems
In the void where spiritual or creative meaning used to live, we now have “businessing.” The act of business is the purpose, rather than the work it’s supposed to support.
#philosophy #meaning #wtfarewedoing
#philosophy #meaning #wtfarewedoing
September 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
In the void where spiritual or creative meaning used to live, we now have “businessing.” The act of business is the purpose, rather than the work it’s supposed to support.
#philosophy #meaning #wtfarewedoing
#philosophy #meaning #wtfarewedoing
Complaining about meetings has become a kind of Protestant Reformation in miniature — endless splintering sects around the right tool, right framework, right ritual to save us from bloated coordination.
September 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Complaining about meetings has become a kind of Protestant Reformation in miniature — endless splintering sects around the right tool, right framework, right ritual to save us from bloated coordination.
Historically, elites fear not just rebellion but demonstrations that ordinary people don’t need them.
August 28, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Historically, elites fear not just rebellion but demonstrations that ordinary people don’t need them.
On the current trajectory, in the future we’ll all be floating heads in circles trying to sell our personal brands to each other. Oh wait shit is that already how it is?
#humanityforsale
#humanityforsale
August 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
On the current trajectory, in the future we’ll all be floating heads in circles trying to sell our personal brands to each other. Oh wait shit is that already how it is?
#humanityforsale
#humanityforsale
The thing about being in an infantilized society, is if you try to be an adult that speaks uncomfortable truths like we all have to grow up and be responsible (otherwise we all suffer eventually) then you get vilified and ostracized.
August 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The thing about being in an infantilized society, is if you try to be an adult that speaks uncomfortable truths like we all have to grow up and be responsible (otherwise we all suffer eventually) then you get vilified and ostracized.
A moral, ethical society doesn’t figure out how to power the orphan crushing machine with diversity and green energy. It figures out how to turn it off and never use it again.
#sustainability #ethics #stopcrushingorphans
#sustainability #ethics #stopcrushingorphans
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
A moral, ethical society doesn’t figure out how to power the orphan crushing machine with diversity and green energy. It figures out how to turn it off and never use it again.
#sustainability #ethics #stopcrushingorphans
#sustainability #ethics #stopcrushingorphans
It’s easier (and more profitable) to tell people what they want to hear. Distributing uncomfortable truths is rarely welcomed with open arms.
August 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
It’s easier (and more profitable) to tell people what they want to hear. Distributing uncomfortable truths is rarely welcomed with open arms.
Consumption is hollow.
A world where people buy their identities is soulless.
Ghosts wearing degraded copies of personalities delivered with optimal economic efficiency.
You used to be whole, but now you’re wholesale.
#consumerism #philosophy #meaning
A world where people buy their identities is soulless.
Ghosts wearing degraded copies of personalities delivered with optimal economic efficiency.
You used to be whole, but now you’re wholesale.
#consumerism #philosophy #meaning
August 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Consumption is hollow.
A world where people buy their identities is soulless.
Ghosts wearing degraded copies of personalities delivered with optimal economic efficiency.
You used to be whole, but now you’re wholesale.
#consumerism #philosophy #meaning
A world where people buy their identities is soulless.
Ghosts wearing degraded copies of personalities delivered with optimal economic efficiency.
You used to be whole, but now you’re wholesale.
#consumerism #philosophy #meaning
In a society of spectacle, intelligence isn’t shown through solving real problems or delivering tangible value. It isn’t shared with the goal of spreading deep understanding. Instead, it’s “performed”, acted out according to the narrative’s characterization of what “smart” is.
#society #intelligence
#society #intelligence
August 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
In a society of spectacle, intelligence isn’t shown through solving real problems or delivering tangible value. It isn’t shared with the goal of spreading deep understanding. Instead, it’s “performed”, acted out according to the narrative’s characterization of what “smart” is.
#society #intelligence
#society #intelligence
Do fragile egos make fragile systems? Or do fragile systems make fragile egos? 🤔
#systems #selfsimilarity #fragility #complexity #sustainability
#systems #selfsimilarity #fragility #complexity #sustainability
August 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Do fragile egos make fragile systems? Or do fragile systems make fragile egos? 🤔
#systems #selfsimilarity #fragility #complexity #sustainability
#systems #selfsimilarity #fragility #complexity #sustainability
I think copium might actually be the most used drug tbh
August 2, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I think copium might actually be the most used drug tbh
To quote Wang Chung:
“The words we use are strong
They make reality”
“The words we use are strong
They make reality”
August 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
To quote Wang Chung:
“The words we use are strong
They make reality”
“The words we use are strong
They make reality”
How can any technology that entrenches existing power structures be called “revolutionary”?? I mean, I get that it’s the word being stripped of its true meaning. But still, just feel the need to shout into the void about it.
#words #meaning #technology
#words #meaning #technology
July 31, 2025 at 5:18 PM
How can any technology that entrenches existing power structures be called “revolutionary”?? I mean, I get that it’s the word being stripped of its true meaning. But still, just feel the need to shout into the void about it.
#words #meaning #technology
#words #meaning #technology
The thing about productivity, is that the output of some people’s “productivity” is a giant effing mess the rest of society has to clean up
#productivity #criticalthinking #firstorderthinking
#productivity #criticalthinking #firstorderthinking
July 28, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The thing about productivity, is that the output of some people’s “productivity” is a giant effing mess the rest of society has to clean up
#productivity #criticalthinking #firstorderthinking
#productivity #criticalthinking #firstorderthinking
There is no magical amount of content you can consume that will make your life or the world better. The uncomfortable truth is that you actually have to take action.
Consistent action.
Is there something you’re avoiding doing? Yeah, that’s probably what you need to do then.
#action #better
Consistent action.
Is there something you’re avoiding doing? Yeah, that’s probably what you need to do then.
#action #better
July 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Sometimes it feels like most of us are the sacrifice in someone else’s ritual
July 25, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Sometimes it feels like most of us are the sacrifice in someone else’s ritual