Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W9Harsher feedback, not better prompts
This week, we optimize AI the old-fashioned way: less guidance, more performance reviews.
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
W8Premium vendor subscriptions for life
This week, AI arrives to ‘unlock our potential’, and quietly locks the herd into a lifetime of premium vendor subscriptions.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W7Bell curve and cowbell
This week, the bell curve decides who ‘exceeds expectations’ and who just needs more cowbell.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W6Rubber duck carries the week
This week, our cube‑cows are freaking out about AGI, while the only one actually up for any work is still the rubber duck.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W5Your passion is ours now
This week, our cube-cows are all in on SMART culture: your passion is ours now; Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W4Free-range knowledge
This week, our free-range knowledge cows get open pens, bottomless coffee, and just enough fence to keep the ideas from wandering off.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W3AI personalization, same herd
This week, our cow-workers discover AI ‘personalization’ for cognitive work: different brains, the same five tasks, one perfectly optimized herd.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W2Standardized moos
This week, our cow-workers are standardising their deterministic mooo’s so the AI never has to wonder what kind of bull they meant.
Cognitive-Memetics · Cube-Cows
W1Less thinking, more moooosic
This week, our cow-workers embrace office AI: less thinking, more moooosic, and the same old corporate bull.