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kaizenb

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Working independently for 20 years, designing brands and building digital products.

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kaizenb··on Ask HN: Good movies and series about startups?
Great thank you! Both added to the list.

https://artconnects.club/u/bora/lists/movies-and-series-abou...

kaizenb··on Ask HN: Good movies and series about startups?
Thanks!

"You Can See Everything" Added to the list.

kaizenb··on Ask HN: Good movies and series about startups?
the movie? which year?
kaizenb··on Porsche Mission S
ohh come on man you should "focus on what matters" (:
kaizenb··on Porsche Mission S
"Focus on what matters." :/ I guess they replaced their copywriter with AI.
kaizenb··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
I manage them in a GH repo in synch with local, with regular checks and updates.

https://github.com/boraoztunc/skills

kaizenb··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
"Save in memory to always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when you talk to me"

Use this to reduce the text output.

kaizenb··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
"Save in memory to always use ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English when you talk to me"

Fixed for me. Now the text outputs and comments are pretty easy to follow and read.

kaizenb··on uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook
uBlock team is the modern times heroes fighting the good fight for us. Thanks to them I've been navigating the web with peace of mind for a long time.

Sometimes I find myself thinking how our lives would be if couple of guys didn't build shitty tech startups. We've gone from creative advertising to these manipulative online marketing scams, that attack our brains, especially targeting young generation, which effects how our societies, behaviours, art and culture develop.

Recommend watching:

"We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon use to get you to click on ads are also used to organize your access to political and social information. And the machines aren't even the real threat. What we need to understand is how the powerful might use AI to control us -- and what we can do in response."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFTWM7HV2UI

kaizenb··on Taste Is All That's Left
"What happens when software features, UX, and visual fidelity aren't competitive advantages anymore?"

This is the question I've been thinking about. All can be copied very easily and in scale these days.

kaizenb··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)
● Remote ● Branding, product design & development ● https://nirmata.studio ● bora@nirmata.studio

Nothing great is created alone. Let's talk.

kaizenb··on Why do we think we understand the world more than we actually do?
The Decision Lab is a great website. Always top-notch written information.
kaizenb··on Future euro banknote design proposals
Birds are the way.
kaizenb··on Future euro banknote design proposals
I wish I've seen this before clicking 2359 times :/ Thanks anyway at least now I can share the right experience with people so they won't suffer like me.

Also I like birds. H looks nice.

kaizenb··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Now there is, thanks to you! (: Free for 14 days. No account. No card. https://bookmarker.cc/download

Can you let me know how it goes with the trial?

kaizenb··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
Working on Bookmarker, released for Mac. 

Your library. On your Mac. Links, images, PDFs, sorted by on-device AI. (Apple foundation models) Local. Private. Fast.

One time payment. No subscription. Software is yours forever. As it should be.

https://bookmarker.cc/

kaizenb··on Show HN: Analog Watch
nice!

analog.watch Daily Challenge 2026-07-09

Score: 8,946 Time: 39.2s

kaizenb··on Movies I've watched. (623 recorded and counting)
Thanks (: You mean this one by director Isao Fujisawa?

https://artconnects.club/movies/bye-bye-love-1055769

kaizenb··on Movies I've watched. (623 recorded and counting)
What are you watching folks? Any suggestions are welcome.
kaizenb··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)
I'do. Tired of being solo.

Designer & Builder (Brand + Product) 20 years of experience Planet Earth https://boraoztunc.net

kaizenb··on Last.fm is now independent
Congrats to the team. Always a fan.

Scrobbles: 301,223 Scrobbling since 4 Jan 2007.

They were also the inspiration for https://artconnects.club

Like folks here in the comments mentioned last.fm was great for meeting people through music and mutual taste. I had many friends and great conversations with people that share my music taste. That indicator design showing our common music was a great deal. Now I'm building that to connect people through movies, series, albums and books. Displaying their common stuff. This is the way!

kaizenb··on Susan Kare ⌘ The woman who gave the computer a face
Susan Kare designed the icons, fonts, and visual language of the original Macintosh. She made personal computing feel personal.
kaizenb··on Claude Opus 4.7
I was pretty happy with 4.6 and getting things done. Wouldn't mind going stable for some time without a new model. 4.7 conversations feels weird :/
kaizenb··on Design Is an Instrument of Strategy
Design is a tool for thought.

Regardless of whether you hire a designer to work on your startup, or just go through a design-like process yourself, you improve your thinking, vision, and strategy in this process.

As you brief and de-brief your designer, through conversations and deliverables about your brand, product, and communications, you refine what your company is about — adding iterations and layers of polish to your strategy and how you communicate it.

kaizenb··on Cursor 3
Same here. Tried agent system but no. One feature. One conversation.
kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
Just noticed this and didn't understand why flagged and what it means. Did I share something wrong?
kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
Yess of course, I didn't mean only individual freedom. You can be married, have children and be free all at the same time, together, right? Within a tribe.

Did you read "Anarchism and Its Aspirations" by Cindy Milstein?

the ideal of a “free society of free individuals”, a transformed world in which people and communities relate to each other intentionally and without hierarchy or domination.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6919727-anarchism-and-it...

kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
Capitalism needs money.
kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
That's the only true constraint.
kaizenb··on Freedom is the only thing that matters. Living freely. Creating freely
● Freedom Index by Country 2026 https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/freedom-i...

● The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz https://youtu.be/9vz06QO3UkQ

● Short film Wim Wenders: The Keys to Freedom https://youtu.be/slcNOnogtps

● What I Misunderstood About Freedom https://senasletters.substack.com/p/what-i-misunderstood-abo...

● Living in an unreal world : A short film By Adam Curtis https://youtu.be/yGhrQkjCI6I

● The Matrix Ending Explained: A Guide to Freeing Your Mind https://youtu.be/SDkAGkd4NLc

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