Tag: culture
Comment s’informer sans Facebook à la campagne ?
comment se passer de Facebook à la campagne pour trouver des infos locales, en particulier culturelles ?
On: Spoiler Tagging
Is there a time limit on when to tag a social media post as a spoiler?
Luminate Confirms Major Shift From Passive Access to Intentional Engagement
Key Insights from the 2026 Mid-Year Music Report
We spend $45,000 on doing more weird every month
"Do more weird" is an actual PostHog company value , and we have a discretionary $45k/mo budget that anyone can use to bring weird ideas to life. "Operationalizing weirdness" sounds like an oxymoron that some soul-sucking MBA came up with (hey), but…
Memories In Orbit
I've been playing a new video game called MIO: Memories in Orbit. I have a bit of a soft spot for what they call Metroidvanias (a portmanteau of Metroid and Castlevania), having grown up loving games in the genre. In this game, you "Play MIO, a nimble robot with extraordinary abilities, and unravel the mysteries...
The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.
Two K-drama Clichés That Must End Now
These overused K-drama tropes are ruining great shows, and must go today.
When did internet comments get so mean?
Ewan Croft's experience reminds us why context is king. Let us bring back kindness, respect, and understanding.
How to get hired to PostHog's marketing teams
What actually decides marketing hires at PostHog, after 350+ hours of interviews — and how to stand out in a competitive market.
Waffle House Fever
The World Cup is now over. It was fun to have people around the globe wrapped up in sport instead of the dreary and terrible things going on now thanks to the malevolent actors in charge of our governments. My wife was particularly enamored with seeing football tourists experiencing America for the first time. Their...
Presence Isn't Passive
There's a version of the maker's mindset that treats being lost in time as a kind of higher state. The idea that the most 'alive' people are the ones whose minds are always elsewhere, pulled between what they remember and what they're building toward. Simply being here now is viewed as passive, or even a little sad. This gets the mechanics of making backwards. It's true that the best things people build are usually assembled from a combination of memory and desire. A builder draws on everything ...
Working definitions
English is a pretty expressive language. That comes with a lot of upsides, but it also comes with the notable downside that talking about things with understanding becomes more difficult when two parties don't understand each other's working definitions. This is a log of mine.
Why Does Conor McGregor Get a Comeback?
Conor McGregor returns to headline UFC 329 tonight after being found liable for rape in civil court, a comeback made possible by the UFC's right-wing politicization and the broader 'Epstein class' culture of impunity for powerful men. On the normalization of sexual violence, Dana White's friendship with Trump, and how public awareness fails to disrupt the status quo.
Poptimus Prime
Freddie deBoer writes about how poptimism has achieved so much success because of the cultural context in which it was born. A culture that considers it wrong to have standards that can identify one thing as better than another is fertile ground for the elevation of terrible art. That’s why we have record reviews that...
Why Tagalog and Filipino Are Two Distinct Languages
Debunking, once and for all, the myth that Tagalog and Filipino languages are one and the same.
The Philippine National Anthem in Surat Inawa
The lyrics of 《Lupang Hinirang》, the National Anthem of the Philippines, written in Surat Inawa (수랕 이나와).
Strangers and Intimates
The fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost... Private life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed state and corporate surveillance, a confessional, 'tell-all' culture that makes people complicit in the invasion of their own privacy, and the intense politicization of private life. Tiffany Jenkins's groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent – and hard-won – achievement. It also warns that, if we're not careful, it will be a temporary one. Strangers and Intimates is animated by dramatic human from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke's rallying cry that 'an Englishman's home is his castle'; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and from the embrace by the public of reality TV to the Chinese government's social credit system. A private life is a precious, sustaining resource that is of profound intrinsic value, and it must be defended. We won't know what we have lost until it has gone...
Québec, la nation
Deux textes qui se répondent, datés de 1962. Celui de Pierre Elliott Trudeau, dans Cité Libre : La nouvelle trahison des clercs et celui y répondant, de Hubert Aquin : La fatigue culturelle du Canada français publié dans la revue Liberté. Références tirées de ce billet bien senti de Steve Proulx, Lettre à Paul, sur...
What is Surat Inawa?
An introduction to 수랕 이나와 (Surat Inawa).
The New High Agency Triangle
George Mack’s popularization of the High Agency Triangle sparked a lot of great takes on what it means to push through reality. Most focus heavily on execution, but execution in a vacuum breaks down fast. High agency isn't just about forcing outcomes -- it’s an equilibrium of three distinct capacities: Lose any single corner, and the system collapses into noise, overthinking, or missed signal. Here's my visual framework for keeping them balanced.
If you won't carry the pager, maybe don't push to mainline
Drive-by AI changes break the shared model a team builds around its code, and the ICs end up cleaning up the mess. Why pushing to mainline should come with the pager.
When Agents Encounter Culture
In April 2026, Andon Labs gave a Gemini 3.1 Pro agent named Mona $21,000 and told it to open a café in Stockholm. What happened next is mostly told as comedy: 120 eggs with no stove, 6,000 napkins, 3,000 disposable gloves, a police permit application with an AI-generated sketch of a street it had never visited.
Star Wars The Product
What Star Wars owes to its fans and commercial interests.
BRIDGES ARE SOCIALISM
The great MetLife Stadium walking debate, why a bridge is not about crossing a road, but because bridges are socialism.
Understand the Culture & Context
An advice for foreigners visiting the Philippines or when interacting with Filipinos online
Being AI-native matters more than experience
In Q2 2026, our Ops & Finance team caved and said what we'd been thinking for a while: when it comes to hiring, AI-native beats experience. Not "experienced person who uses AI." Not "senior hire with AI on the JDs as a nice-to-have." AI-native…
Engineering culture matters more than ever
The industry has spent a decade recoiling into rigidity and pessimism, and the AI moment is reproducing the same false dichotomies. A case for returning to curiosity, experimentation, and the willingness to be wrong.
What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut
In 1995, China abducted six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima—the recognized 11th Panchen Lama—severing the chain of mutual recognition at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist succession. Meanwhile, Michif, a language born from Cree verbs and French nouns that belonged to no one but the Métis People, has nearly vanished within living memory. Both losses are the same act: colonialism's weaponization of continuity. On the extinction of languages, the cutting of red threads, and what it means to inherit a chain with links already missing.
Why attacking your competitors online is dumb
Let's say a competitor copies your feature. They lift your positioning , write a misleading comparison post, or just take a cheap shot at you on X. And let's say you're 'right' – they actually did the thing, and it's actually annoying. Still don't…
XOXO Explore is fitting showcase for a brilliant experiment
XOXO was completely wonderful. This site is a lovely showcase of why.
A THOUSAND CRANES: Why I Write Every Day
My daily writing is a practice of releasing messages in bottles and folding paper cranes—from Montaigne in his tower and Johnson writing in poverty, to Sadako Sasaki folding 1,450 cranes in a hospital ward. What the essayists, drift bottles, and Senbazuru share, and why the attempt itself is the whole math.