Cube-Cows

All Cube-Cows

How ideas spread and take over.

Memes, frames, and narratives that jump between minds and compete for attention and control.

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Teaser

This week, our cube-cows all come in on collaboration days so the office dog can keep counting heads and feel absolutely critical to the business.

03-Jun Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W15We speak ACR

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Teaser

This week, our cube-cows discover the official company language: not English, not moo, just wall-to-wall ACR.

27-May Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W14We rise together

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Teaser

This week, our cube-cows prove we rise together: some rise vertically, others rise mainly in lower-back pain statistics.

20-May Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W13Our values, but not like that

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Teaser

This week, management refreshes Our Values: think big, collaborate often, but don’t go overboard.

14-May Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W12Boundaries, now with growth

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Teaser

This week, the herd experiments with boundaries; management helpfully rebrands them as growth opportunities.

07-May Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W11Commute for the culture

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Teaser

This week, the robots do almost all the work and our cube-cows still commute, for the culture, of course, not the purpose.

30-Apr Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W10Fully aligned with the new TLA

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Teaser

This week, our cube-cows learn the true meaning of TLA: Three-Letter Acronym, also known as ‘strategy, but shorter.’

23-Apr Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W9Harsher feedback, not better prompts

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Teaser

This week, we optimize AI the old-fashioned way: less guidance, more performance reviews.

16-Apr Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W8Premium vendor subscriptions for life

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Teaser

This week, AI arrives to ‘unlock our potential’, and quietly locks the herd into a lifetime of premium vendor subscriptions.

09-Apr Cognitive-MemeticsCube-Cows

W7Bell curve and cowbell

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Teaser

This week, the bell curve decides who ‘exceeds expectations’ and who just needs more cowbell.