Tag: meme
The best job at Google
Recently, I came across two things I would call "Easter Eggs" in Google. The first happened while I was researching Cordyceps to add some facts to my review of Last of Us. I noticed that Google lets you "infect" the search results with the mushroom from the show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SejPgNqyTI A few days later, I googled "six seven". I guess this is what parents do these days when they try to understand their kids slang. While keying it into the search field, I tried to remember the most strange jargon we used 30 years ago. I couldn't find much other than "cool", which has been in my bubble like forever, at least compared to how quickly these things seem to change nowadays. Then the Google results appeared and started to shake like this in front of my eyes. Again, I was surprised and smiled. Why do I love this? In the software industry, we call these things Easter Eggs), and I have always been attracted to them. In fact, 20 years ago, I created an Easter Egg myself, and…
Hampster Economics
Pondering how a meme from a quarter-century ago might have gone over in today’s much-more-mature creator economy.