You Need to Be More Careless
How a LinkedIn Post at 5:30 AM Became an App, a Song, and a Music Video Before Breakfast
At 5:30 this morning I was doing what every well-adjusted adult does - scrolling LinkedIn in bed with one eye open while my dog Clay breathed heavily on my feet.
And I saw a post by Dr. Shadé Zahrai that stopped me.
She said when she catches herself overthinking someone’s opinion, she grabs a piece of paper and draws a line down the middle.
Left side: Care Less About. Right side: Care More About.
Then she looks at the right side and resets.
Simple. Elegant. True.
And my first thought was: I need to build this.
Not on paper. As an app. With sound effects. And a flush button.
The Disease
Here’s what we do. All of us. Every day.
We wake up with a finite amount of emotional energy - let’s call it 100 points - and we spend it on things like:
Why a colleague didn’t say hi in the hallway
A LinkedIn post that got 3 likes
Something we said at dinner in 2019
The way someone looked at our shoes
Whether our barista seemed cold
An email we sent that maybe had a weird tone
And by noon we’re bankrupt. Emotionally broke. We’ve spent our entire budget on people who couldn’t pick us out of a lineup. On moments that had a half-life of nine minutes. On absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile the things that actually deserve our care — our people, our craft, the morning, the dog at our feet — get the scraps.
This is insane. And we all do it.
The Cure (Sort Of)
It’s an app. You open it when you’re spiraling. You type in whatever’s eating you alive. Something like: “My colleague didn’t respond to my Slack message for 3 hours.”
The app runs a dramatic fake analysis - scanning global opinion databases, consulting the universe, asking your cat (your cat doesn’t care either) — and then delivers the verdict:
Care Score: 4 out of 100. Classification: Cosmically Irrelevant.
Then it gives you a reality check. Something like: “Your colleague has already forgotten this. They’re thinking about lunch.”
And then - the best part - you destroy it.
You choose your weapon: 🔥 Burn it. 💣 Explode it. 🚽 Flush it. 🎈 Release it. 🗑️ Shred it.
Each one has its own animation. Each one has its own sound. Each one is deeply, stupidly satisfying.
You start every day with 100 Care Points. Every worry costs you. When you hit zero, the app congratulates you: “You have officially run out of cares to give today.”
There’s a Hall of Shame where you can scroll through all your past worries and see, with the clarity of distance, how absolutely none of them mattered.
Is it therapy? No. Is it a joke? Also no. It’s somewhere in between - which is exactly where the truth usually lives.
The Song
Because apparently building an app wasn’t enough for one morning, I also wrote a song about it. Nova Rai — my cosmic electronic alter ego — needed to weigh in.
The video follows the arc of the app: anxiety, self-doubt, doom-scrolling at 2 AM, hands on head - and then the turn. The flash. The balcony. The golden light. Arms open. Dancing free.
Care less about the noise. Care more about what’s alive.
That’s the whole thing.
The Real Point
Dr. Shadé used a piece of paper and a pen. I used an app, a song, and a music video. Same truth, different weapons.
But here’s what I keep coming back to:
We think “caring less” means becoming cold. Detached. Indifferent. That’s not it. Caring less about the noise is what frees you to care more about what’s real.
Your people. Your work. The morning light coming through the window. The bread, the wine, the street. The dog sleeping against your feet.
Not your engagement rate. Not your colleague’s opinion of your shoes. Not the thing you said at that dinner party three years ago that nobody else remembers.
The app is called Careless, but it’s really about the opposite - caring so much about the right things that you stop bleeding for the small ones.
Pen and paper on one end. An app with a flush button on the other.
Same line down the middle.
Built in one morning. With AI. Because that’s what happens when you stop caring about the wrong things and start building the right ones.
Thank you, Dr. Shadé Zahrai, for the spark.
🔻 Author’s Note
I write to remember. To walk through silence. To burn through the noise.
I also make music under three personas: Naimor (stillness), Nova Rai (fire), and Charlie C (shadow). And I built a framework called Technomysticism for staying human in the age of AI.
The Burn Blog is where I burn. Technomystic.ai is where I build. Both are the same practice: showing up, feeling what’s real, and not looking away.
🎵 Naimor / Nova Rai / Charlie C.
If you feel it, it’s real.
Impressive how you can bring so many ideas to live in such a short time. What are you using for these videos?