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Ilona Borsos

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nerding about product, photos, writing & more-or-less creative coding. I want my software to be designed for the human experience.

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The existential fatigue of 1000 daily decisions of whether to ask Claude about something - or try to figure it out on my own.

05.03.2026 11:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Calling your AI agents 'employees' is a surefire sign you’re going to be insufferable.

04.03.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just want a world where quiet, good work is rewarded over dancing for an algorithm. Where children aren’t used as props online, where we hear about good work not because of a social post, but because a human we trust talks about it. Where we don’t need it to be listed online to matter. That’s all

21.09.2025 08:33 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Probably one of the weirdest and coolest things I’ve ever done - I hung an invitation for a paper collage night in the elevator for the other girls from my block, and we had the BEST time. Let’s bring back neighborhood communities and casual hangouts in private spaces.

20.09.2025 15:54 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We’ve had too many days lately that deserved that title. I’ll gladly take a completely dull day when nothing at all happens

(greetings from Poland)

19.09.2025 12:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My mind is still wired to see things as neat equations with a single right answer, instead of the messy mix of hundreds of human, business and societal factors they really are - but I’m getting better.

19.09.2025 12:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Life is better since:
- Instead of making statements, I make bets and test them,
- Instead of looking for binary answers I see things as a spectrum,
- Instead of seeking definite answers I look for patterns

19.09.2025 12:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston
How Will You Measure Your Life? Clay Christensen at TEDxBoston YouTube video by TEDx Talks

today's the day I fell in love with the works of Clay Christensen. Because of the "Innovator's dilemma" with I'm deep-reading now - and because of this TED talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvos...

14.09.2025 11:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s amazing, caught my eye immediately! Thank you so much for sharing it (and creating it in the first place!)

13.09.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Planets in Space #2 ~ a blog post about my new painting. #art #artist #painting #newpainting #arttistblog henishappypaintings.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/p...

13.09.2025 13:03 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
"ambient fans when the chord changes after 10 minutes:

OKAAYYY"

under that is a picture of Jamie Lee Curtis posing with her hand sassily on her hip.

"ambient fans when the chord changes after 10 minutes: OKAAYYY" under that is a picture of Jamie Lee Curtis posing with her hand sassily on her hip.

12.09.2025 21:01 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3

a platitude I know, but I saw this sentence today and it made a lot of things I’ve been thinking about recently make a lot of sense

13.09.2025 14:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

some wounds heal completely, others harden into scar tissue

13.09.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s never been easier to learn than now, also never been harder to resist the temptation to outsource the products of your learning to an LLM.

12.09.2025 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to understand something intuitively? | Ilona Borsos Working as a product manager means that I constantly come across new topics and concepts that I need to absorb. Sometimes it’s just about quickly acquiring the knowledge necessary to complete a specif...

Yeah I can read about something but how can I _really_ learn what it is? This was the question that struck me during a morning walk and this piece is an attempt to answer it.
ilonaborsos.com/en/posts/jak...

12.09.2025 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Oj tak. Wiedza co (i kogo) mieć w dupie jest nawet cenniejsza od tej, kogo śledzić i czego w tej dupie nie mieć :)

12.09.2025 15:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Something is coming up

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11.09.2025 14:09 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Okay this is THE ultimate comfort movie. I watched this wrapped in a blanket, had some fries, some chocolate covered salty sticks and a smoothie. Life is good.

11.09.2025 20:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again A toolkit of habits, routines and products to help you live more intentionally

Here's a great list of ideas if you feel like you're too engrossed in that little glass rectangle in your pocket (or...the one you're staring at RIGHT NOW 😜).

Bonus idea: a friend of mine has started inviting people to have lunch at his house. "Come on over, let's make some sandwiches."

06.09.2025 18:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there a word to describe Obsidian's business model? Revenue primarily comes from optional paid services that have free alternatives.

Freemium isn't quite right because freemium apps typically paywall features, or have usage-based pricing. Obsidian's features are free and there's no usage limit.

09.09.2025 16:20 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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2 years married to my dude today. The most amazing human being I know, I’m not even exaggerating. He just wants me to be 100% me and I just can’t put in words how amazing it is to have someone in my life who truly loves me no matter what.

09.09.2025 19:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The hardest thing about coming back from 2 week PTO is retraining muscle memory from my thinkpad back to my work mac

08.09.2025 15:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@annehelen.bsky.social on bullshit jobs.

07.09.2025 16:41 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

I 100% believe you can make yourself become a hardcore nerd about anything at all, but I’m yet to precisely describe the process to do so. Any ideas?

Let’s say that for whatever reason you need to start genuinely caring about something random, like lightbulbs or seats in trains. What would you do?

08.09.2025 08:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The only right way to use Facebook in 2025:
- in browser, installing an app only if I want to post something & deleting it immediately after
- religious minimalism with # of groups I’m in / # of people I follow
- cleaned up with #blockit app

08.09.2025 07:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

For real. I somehow completely forgot how personal web used to be before Facebook & other generic social media took over, turning personal internet spaces into digital luncheon meat. Going back to neocities, blogs, forums or even taste aggregators like lastfm gives me so much joy.

08.09.2025 07:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

been working on my neocities site for a few days. it feels like making a home. i'm building the rooms, decorating them, making them me

when it's done i'll invite people over & they'll come inside & see the photos on the walls, the knicknacks on the shelves & say, "ah, this is she. i know her now"

08.09.2025 05:24 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
Pacific coast, Washington beach at midday. Heavy gray clouds hover low over a quiet gray beach where the silver waves gently lap ashore. The dark beach sands meet the glittering water’s edge.

Pacific coast, Washington beach at midday. Heavy gray clouds hover low over a quiet gray beach where the silver waves gently lap ashore. The dark beach sands meet the glittering water’s edge.

Beach drama. ✨

#Washington #coast #beach #PNW #photography #nature #beauty #clouds

07.09.2025 05:35 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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dbpedia_starring: DBpedia film-actor network.

A bipartite network of movies and the actors that played in them, as extracted from Wikipedia by the DBpedia project.

157184 nodes, 281396 edges.

https://networks.skewed.de/net/dbpedia_starring

Ridiculogram:

06.09.2025 01:00 πŸ‘ 93 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1
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August 21, 2025

Yes, I know what, but I don't know how.

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07.09.2025 12:22 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0