A strange creature born of myth and science becomes the center of a fable about creation, monstrosity and belonging.
About
Boris Hrnčić
Design engineer & co-founder of
Polyfen.
Maker of things that ought to exist.
Curator of things that already do.
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Bio
Boris is a startup founder with expertise in product design, development, and growth. He co-founded Polyfen, a software development and AI consulting company where he serves as Chief Strategy Officer.
He started coding websites at age 15 and then earned a university degree in graphic design with an emphasis on branding, sparking a lifelong passion for technology and systems thinking that evolved into deep engagement with the latest possibilities in AI.
Currently based in his home country of Argentina, Boris spent ten years living abroad in the US, Croatia, and Estonia. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, consuming art in all its forms (books, audiobooks, graphic novels, art exhibitions, gigs, museums, architecture, design, …), playing classical guitar, cooking hours-long recipes, and engaging in other passion projects like brewing kombucha, printing custom T-shirt designs, learning how to do latte art, or getting a ham radio operator’s license. Boris brings an inquisitive and multifaceted approach to everything he does.
Favourite Books
- Other (6 genres) 21% Fiction, Business, History, Adventure, Design, Satire
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Two astronauts crash-land on an idyllic world that reshapes their bodies and reality itself — Mœbius's trippiest, most visionary saga.
The World of Edena
Foundation:
Book 3 of 7
As a galactic empire crumbles, a psychohistorian's secret plan aims to shorten the coming dark age from millennia to one.
Foundation
Stephen Fry's Great Mythology:
Book 1 of 4
Stephen Fry retells the Greek myths from creation to the Titans and Olympians, with wit, warmth and startling clarity.
Mythos
Stephen Fry's Great Mythology:
Book 2 of 4
Perseus, Jason, Heracles and more — Fry retells the mortal heroes' quests, monsters and tragedies of Greek myth.
Heroes
Hyperion Cantos:
Book 1 of 4
Seven pilgrims travel to the Time Tombs on the eve of interstellar war, each recounting how the planet Hyperion changed their life — Canterbury Tales in space.
Hyperion
A comfort-loving hobbit is swept into a quest for dragon-guarded gold, and discovers unexpected courage along the way.
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings:
Book 3 of 3
Gondor burns under siege as Frodo nears Mount Doom — the fate of Middle-earth balances on one last, desperate mile.
The Return of the King
Cursed by a dark lord, a hero's children are pursued by fate itself in Tolkien's bleakest, most tragic Middle-earth tale.
The Children of Húrin
A scientist's dimension-hopping device breaks, stranding his team on a relentless, ever-shifting tour through parallel worlds.
Black Science
Diana grows up hidden and hunted on an Amazon island under siege — a ground-up reimagining of Wonder Woman's origin.
Absolute Wonder Woman
An aging Batman returns to a rotting Gotham for one last, brutal war — the graphic novel that reinvented the character.
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
Retired, damaged vigilantes investigate a murder that unravels a conspiracy threatening the Cold War's fragile peace.
Watchmen
A lavishly illustrated survey of typefaces and graphic styles from the 17th century to the modern era.
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces & Graphic Styles
A sword-and-sorcery epic of empire, magic and betrayal from Argentine comics' Mazzitelli and Alcatena.
Imperator
Barsoom:
Book 1 of 11
John Carter, a Civil War veteran, wakes on Mars — where low gravity makes him near-superhuman — and is pulled into the wars, courts and creatures of a dying world.
A Princess of Mars
Satan, cast out of Heaven, sets out to corrupt God's new creation — an epic poem on rebellion, free will and the fall, whose villain is its most compelling voice.
Paradise Lost
A.C. Grayling assembles a secular scripture from a thousand humanist texts — Genesis to The Good — offering ethics and consolation without theology.
The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
Farm animals overthrow their human owner to build an equal society — and a new tyranny rises from within. Orwell's Stalinist allegory.
Animal Farm
A shipwrecked cynic washes ashore on Pala, a Buddhist-inspired utopia — Huxley's hopeful counterpart to Brave New World, and his final novel.
Island
In a near-future where digital storage is scarce, a dying woman is uploaded to the cloud — and the world keeps deleting itself to make room.
System Preference
Dune:
Book 2 of 6
Twelve years after Dune, Emperor Paul Atreides is trapped by the religion built in his name and the jihad fought for it.
Dune Messiah
Dune:
Book 1 of 6
A duke's son is thrust into a desert planet's brutal politics, prophecy and spice — the birth of science fiction's greatest epic.
Dune
An Andalusian shepherd sells his flock to chase a recurring dream of treasure, and learns to listen to the world's Personal Legend.
The Alchemist
A world-famous self-help guru dies in a silly accident and wakes on a train to Hell, certain there's been a mistake — and that hell's own appeals court will see it his way.
Pandemonia
The Lord of the Rings:
Book 2 of 3
The Fellowship splinters: Frodo and Sam creep toward Mordor while war breaks over Rohan and Isengard's treachery unfolds.
The Two Towers
Foundation:
Book 1 of 7
A young mathematician's theory of psychohistory makes him prey for an empire-spanning chase across a planet-sized city.
Prelude to Foundation
The hidden elven city of Gondolin, thought unconquerable, falls to Morgoth's forces in Tolkien's final published legend.
The Fall of Gondolin
A younger, working-class Bruce Wayne fights Gotham's underworld in this rebuilt-from-scratch take on the Dark Knight's origin.
Absolute Batman
J'onn J'onzz's arrival on Earth is recast as a cosmic horror story about isolation, disguise and an alien mind alone.
Absolute Martian Manhunter
In ancient Egypt, an isolated heir to the throne must face jackal-god kings conspiring to erase him from the succession.
Los Reyes Chacales
Interlinked stories chart the uneasy rise of robots bound by three laws — and the loopholes that make them unpredictable.
I, Robot
Robot:
Book 1 of 4
A human detective and his robot partner investigate a murder in an enclosed future city that fears and depends on robots.
The Caves of Steel
Stephen Fry's Great Mythology:
Book 3 of 4
The ten-year siege of Troy, from Paris's judgment to the wooden horse, retold with Fry's trademark humour and heart.
Troy
Stephen Fry's Great Mythology:
Book 4 of 4
Odysseus's decade-long, monster-strewn voyage home from Troy, closing Fry's retelling of Greek mythology's greatest tales.
Odyssey
A practical framework for brand identity work — process, strategy and real-world case studies for design teams building and maintaining a brand.
Designing Brand Identity
Hyperion Cantos:
Book 2 of 4
The pilgrims reach the Time Tombs as war between the Hegemony and the Ousters erupts — Hyperion's story concludes.
The Fall of Hyperion
A wordless, painted comic — a huntress pursues a boar-like creature and stumbles into an ancient, temple-like ruin.
Haunter
The Lord of the Rings:
Book 1 of 3
A hobbit inherits a ring of terrible power and sets out with eight companions to destroy it before darkness claims Middle-earth.
The Fellowship of the Ring
The mythic history of Middle-earth: the shaping of the world, the fall of the Elves, and the light that was lost and fought for.
The Silmarillion
The Joker's possible origin collides with a single, unbearable night meant to prove that one bad day can break anyone.
Batman: The Killing Joke
A German philosopher spends six years learning Japanese archery, and finds the target is really the self.
Zen in the Art of Archery
Houston traces the strange history of punctuation and typographic marks — the pilcrow, interrobang, ampersand and more — from ancient scribes to the modern keyboard.
Shady Characters
Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius's private notebook of Stoic self-discipline — on duty, mortality and controlling only what's within your own power.
Meditations
Hitchens's epistolary case for principled dissent — how to think and argue independently, drawing on Orwell, Zola and other dissenters before him.
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Thiel's Stanford startup notes argue real progress means building something genuinely new, not incrementally copying what already works.
Zero to One
An eight-year study of workplace culture across 24,000 people, mapping organizations onto five stages from 'life sucks' to 'life is great.'
Tribal Leadership
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Favourite Movies
- Other (10 genres) 27% War, Action, Documentary, Fantasy, Family, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
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Eight pieces of classical music staged as animation, from dancing mushrooms to a mountain of demons — Disney at its most experimental.
Fantasia
James Algar & 11 others, 1940
Shichinin no samurai
A starving village hires seven masterless swordsmen to defend the harvest, and the blueprint for every team-assembly film is cast.
Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa, 1954
One juror refuses to call it murder, and a sweltering deliberation room becomes the tightest thriller ever staged in a single space.
12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet, 1957
A British agent lands in Jamaica to investigate a colleague's murder and finds a reclusive scientist with a nuclear grudge — Bond begins.
Dr. No
Terence Young, 1962
A prince sails for the Golden Fleece past bronze giants and a swordfighting skeleton army — Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion masterpiece.
Jason and the Argonauts
Don Chaffey, 1963
A rogue general launches a nuclear strike, and the men who could stop it argue politely around a war-room table — the funniest film about extinction.
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick, 1964
From a bone thrown into the air to a computer that will not open the pod bay doors — Kubrick's silent, cosmic guess at what comes after us.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick, 1968
A gleeful young thug is conditioned out of his violence by the state, raising a nastier question: is a man forced to be good still a man?
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick, 1971
An anonymous assassin is hired to kill de Gaulle, and a procedural of forged passports and patient police work turns unbearably tense.
The Day of the Jackal
Fred Zinnemann, 1973
Star Wars
A farm boy, a smuggler and a princess against a planet-killing empire — the film that taught Hollywood what a blockbuster was.
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
George Lucas, 1977
A mining crew answers a distress signal and brings something aboard — a haunted-house film with nowhere to run for a thousand light years.
Alien
Ridley Scott, 1979
A glowing green orb of pure evil narrates its passage through a half-dozen animated worlds of sex, violence and electric guitars.
Heavy Metal
Gerald Potterton & 9 others, 1981
The Meaning of Life
Birth, war, middle age and death, sketched by Python with a singing fish tank, an exploding diner and the Machine That Goes Ping.
Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones, 1983
A Cuban refugee takes Miami's cocaine trade by the throat and discovers the world is his, right up until it isn't.
Scarface
Brian De Palma, 1983
The court composer Salieri confesses to murdering Mozart — a story about mediocrity forced to recognize genius and unable to forgive it.
Amadeus
Miloš Forman, 1984
Sent to save a serene utopia from stone-turning invaders, an emissary finds the enemy is the world's own forgotten experiment. Laloux's last dream.
Gandahar
René Laloux, 1987
A jewel heist goes wrong offscreen, and six strangers in black suits bleed out in a warehouse arguing about who talked.
Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Tarantino, 1992
Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas
The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town discovers Christmas and decides, with the very best intentions, to take it over.
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Henry Selick, 1993
Two hitmen, a boxer, a gangster's wife and a briefcase, shuffled out of order — the film that rewired nineties cinema.
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino, 1994
Kôkaku kidôtai
A cyborg counter-terror agent hunts a hacker who edits minds, and starts asking whether anything of her is still hers.
Ghost in the Shell
Mamoru Oshii, 1995
A career thief and the detective chasing him recognize each other completely — two professionals, one coffee, and downtown LA in flames.
Heat
Michael Mann, 1995
A fifteen-year-old who runs every club at his prep school except his own grades falls for a teacher and declares war on a friend.
Rushmore
Wes Anderson, 1998
A slacker is mistaken for a millionaire, his rug is ruined, and the plot unravels into bowling, nihilists and a severed toe.
The Big Lebowski
Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 1998
A doctor, bruised by his wife's confession, spends a night wandering New York toward a masked party he was never meant to find.
Eyes Wide Shut
Stanley Kubrick, 1999
An insomniac office drone and a soap salesman start a basement club for men with nothing left to lose. First rule: don't.
Fight Club
David Fincher, 1999
A programmer stops caring about his job and is immediately promoted — the definitive comedy about cubicles, TPS reports and the printer.
Office Space
Mike Judge, 1999
Betrayed by the new emperor and sold into the arena, a Roman general fights his way back toward the man who took everything.
Gladiator
Ridley Scott, 2000
An 84-carat diamond, an unlicensed boxing promoter and an Irish traveller who cannot be knocked out, colliding across London at speed.
Snatch
Guy Ritchie, 2000
Nine walk out of Rivendell to destroy a ring, and the fantasy epic became something cinema could actually do.
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Peter Jackson, 2001
Three former child prodigies come home to the father who ruined them, who is pretending to be dying in order to be forgiven.
The Royal Tenenbaums
Wes Anderson, 2001
A screenwriter blocked on an orchid book writes himself, his fictional twin and his own breakdown into the script — and then it becomes a thriller.
Adaptation.
Spike Jonze, 2002
A teenage runaway forges his way into cockpits, hospitals and millions, pursued by the one FBI agent who enjoys the chase.
Catch Me If You Can
Steven Spielberg, 2002
The Fellowship is broken: war comes to Rohan, Gollum guides Frodo, and Helm's Deep holds until dawn.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Peter Jackson, 2002
Gondor burns, the Rohirrim ride, and two hobbits carry the last of it up a mountain of ash.
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Peter Jackson, 2003
A young Jedi's fear of loss is turned into the lever that breaks the Republic — how Anakin Skywalker becomes Darth Vader.
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
George Lucas, 2005
El método
Seven candidates for one executive job are locked in a boardroom and told to eliminate each other — and there is no interviewer.
The Method
Marcelo Piñeyro, 2005
A tax auditor starts hearing a novelist narrate his life, including the sentence describing his imminent death.
Stranger Than Fiction
Marc Forster, 2006
Gedo senki
A prince flees his own crime into a land where magic is failing, and a wizard shows him what is really being taken.
Tales from Earthsea
Gorō Miyazaki, 2006
A Jewish cinema owner and a squad of Allied scalp-hunters converge, separately, on the same Paris movie premiere.
Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino, 2009
El secreto de sus ojos
A retired court investigator writes a novel about the murder case he never let go, and reopens what it cost everyone.
The Secret in Their Eyes
Juan José Campanella, 2009
A Frenchman filming street artists is told by Banksy to make art instead, and becomes a sensation — assuming any of it happened.
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Banksy, 2010
A penny-stock broker builds a boiler room into an empire of fraud and stays high for three hours of screen time.
The Wolf of Wall Street
Martin Scorsese, 2013
A legendary concierge and his lobby boy inherit a painting, a murder charge and the last days of a civilization.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson, 2014
Aaron Swartz helped build the open web at fourteen and was prosecuted to death at twenty-six for downloading academic papers.
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
Brian Knappenberger, 2014
A young drummer and a conservatory conductor who abuses his students in pursuit of greatness push each other past any sane limit.
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle, 2014
Relatos salvajes
Six Argentine stories about ordinary people reaching the end of their patience, each one ending far worse than you expect.
Wild Tales
Damián Szifron, 2014
Single people are given forty-five days at a hotel to find a partner, or be turned into an animal of their choosing.
The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015
Three timelines — a week on the mole, a day at sea, an hour in the air — braided into one long-held breath.
Dunkirk
Christopher Nolan, 2017
The Soviet Politburo scrambles over the body of the dictator, and the deadliest power struggle of the century plays as farce.
The Death of Stalin
Armando Iannucci, 2017
Gisaengchung
A poor family talks its way one by one into the employ of a rich one, until the house reveals what else it has been hiding.
Parasite
Bong Joon Ho, 2019
A jazz pianist dies on the day of his big break and haggles his way back from the afterlife to play a single set.
Soul
Pete Docter & Kemp Powers, 2020
Two astronomers find a comet that will kill everyone and cannot get anyone to care — a satire that aged badly in the right way.
Don't Look Up
Adam McKay, 2021
A duke's family is handed the desert planet that will destroy them, and the son begins dreaming of what comes after.
Dune: Part One
Denis Villeneuve, 2021
Paul Atreides takes up with the Fremen and the prophecy built for them, and the revenge he wants becomes a holy war he cannot stop.
Dune: Part Two
Denis Villeneuve, 2024
Ten years after Troy, Odysseus fights his way home across a hostile sea while suitors circle his wife and his kingdom — Homer, shot entirely on IMAX film.
The Odyssey
Christopher Nolan, 2026
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Favourite Music Albums
Playlist- Other (22 genres) 48% Alternative Rock, Disco/Funk, Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Latin Folk, Punk Rock, Blues Rock, Brazilian Reggae, Dub, Folk Rock, Funk, Garage Rock, Heavy Metal, Musical Comedy, Neoclassical, Pop Rock, Progressive Bluegrass, Progressive Rock, Reggae, Rock, Ska Punk, Southern Rock
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Paranoid
Black Sabbath, 1970
The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd, 1973
Second Helping
Lynyrd Skynyrd, 1974
Survival
Bob Marley & The Wailers, 1979
Dookie
Green Day, 1994
Ready to Die
The Notorious B.I.G., 1994
Comfort y Música Para Volar
Soda Stereo, 1996
Sublime
Sublime, 1996
Homework
Daft Punk, 1997
The Colour and the Shape
Foo Fighters, 1997
R U Still Down? (Remember Me)
2Pac, 1997
Americana
The Offspring, 1998
Black on Both Sides
Mos Def, 1999
Operation: Doomsday
MF DOOM, 1999
Parachutes
Coldplay, 2000
The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!)
blink-182, 2000
Alive 1997
Daft Punk, 2001
All Killer, No Filler
Sum 41, 2001
Does This Look Infected?
Sum 41, 2002
blink-182
blink-182, 2003
Chuck
Sum 41, 2004
Plans
Death Cab for Cutie, 2005
The Life Aquatic Exclusive Studio Sessions Featuring Seu Jorge
Seu Jorge, 2005
Armandinho Ao Vivo
Armandinho, 2006
Inside In / Inside Out
The Kooks, 2006
It's Never Been Like That
Phoenix, 2006
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys, 2006
Alive 2007
Daft Punk, 2007
Ear Candy for the Headphone Trippers
Days Away, 2007
Favourite Worst Nightmare
Arctic Monkeys, 2007
The Black and White Album
The Hives, 2007
Cara B
Jorge Drexler, 2008
Elephant Shell
Tokyo Police Club, 2008
Fuerte y Caliente
Onda Vaga, 2008
Konk
The Kooks, 2008
Only Way To Be Alone
Good Old War, 2008
So Fucking Rock (Live)
Tim Minchin, 2008
Brand New Eyes
Paramore, 2009
Brothers
The Black Keys, 2010
TRON: Legacy
Daft Punk, 2010
The Social Network
Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, 2010
Wasting Light
Foo Fighters, 2011
Living Room Songs
Ólafur Arnalds, 2011
All Hidden Places
Turtle Giant, 2012
An Awesome Wave
alt-J, 2012
AM
Arctic Monkeys, 2013
Holy Fire
Foals, 2013
Live on Audiotree
Shakey Graves, 2013
Transatlanticism Demos
Death Cab for Cutie, 2013
First Mind
Nick Mulvey, 2014
This Is All Yours
alt-J, 2014
Whiplash (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Various Artists, 2014
The Phosphorescent Blues
Punch Brothers, 2015
Everything You've Come To Expect
The Last Shadow Puppets, 2016
Intimate Fonk
Dabeull, 2016
Just Cosmo
Cosmo Pyke, 2017
Relaxer
alt-J, 2017
Matahari (French Version)
L'Impératrice, 2019
Metamorfosis
Tapones de Punta, 2019
Lock-In
Fat Freddy's Drop, 2020
Tako Tsubo
L'Impératrice, 2021
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