Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W29Forty minutes later
This week, our cube-cows watch the hyena steal an idea in the hallway and pitch it back in the next meeting, forty minutes later, as his own.
Cube-Cows
How office life got domesticated long before the robots clocked in.
Weekly cube-cow strips: Cube-Cows, AI cow-workers, and a cartoon stopwatch on the human-as-robot era.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W28We stand up so the status doesn't
This week, our cube-cows run a 15-minute standup for 45 minutes straight: yesterday was meetings, today is meetings, and the only blocker on the board is the meeting itself.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W27As you can see from my work
This week, one cow prepares the talk. The manager cow just can’t let the opportunity of a spotlight go: ‘As you can see from my work…’
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W26Just smaller
This week, the bull’s entire leadership philosophy fits inside a matryoshka doll: ‘be exactly like me,’ he tells the dog, ‘just smaller.’
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W25The rewritten minutes
This week, our cube-cows discover the hyena has already rewritten yesterday’s meeting minutes: turns out the hyena’s Copilot archived objections as “constructive buy-in.”
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W24Follow your dreams
Dream big, commute bigger.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W23Protect your energy
Mindfulness says be present, yet cow-workers are mostly present in three overlapping calls at once.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W22Worrying hours are 24/7
Working hours are fixed. Cow-workers’ rumination runs flexible, global, and always online.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W21We encourage proactive behavior
Urgent projects love proactive behavior. Bulls mostly love pretending it was a team effort once the cow-workers crawl back out.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W20Clear boundaries
Resilience coaches love boundaries. Cow-workers just love saying yes in a more professional font.