TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

Employee incentives are one of the oldest brain hacks. The “choose your fighter” meme can be traced back to the video game Mortal Kombat, but it’s also relevant for seed-stage founders who are looking for an investor. Planning to use your startup equity as collateral? “You could claim the system is broken.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

The how do you write meme is swirling through the edtech community and now Vicky Davis, Cool Cat Teacher Blog , has tagged me. m reading and two or three pieces of content flow up from my network that begin to click together in my brain like magnets, making connections. to spread this meme globally. Flickr photo from AussieGal.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

We found that meme pages and petfluencers tend to really undersell themselves, which is interesting and also might make sense considering there’s not a human likeness attached to it. That’s just how my brain works. That’s how a lot of people in business and tech’s brains work. It’s kind of like the human brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This video of Mary Beth Westmoreland and Steve MacLaughlin forecasting how and where nonprofits, technology, and even user experience will intersect during this upcoming year is total brain candy for anyone in our space. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

This video of Mary Beth Westmoreland and Steve MacLaughlin forecasting how and where nonprofits, technology, and even user experience will intersect during this upcoming year is total brain candy for anyone in our space. Relevant even for a nonprofit designer like me.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I dont worry too much about how planet sized brains will shape galaxies in 100 years. A single meme (e.g. AI agents dont think about galaxy-brained considerations. Published on February 19, 2025 5:48 PM GMT My goal as an AI safety researcher is to put myself out of a job. Thats something for AI systems to figure out.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those cues are in TikTok, TikTok videos, those are in what you’re watching on Netflix, those are in the memes that are circulating. You’re not pulling from the brain trust that’s Match Group? So yeah, we’ve pivoted. NP: I’m an old guy, and I married the girl who was assigned the dorm room next to mine before Tinder ever existed.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

If your community is into cat fashion shows , or any number of silly memes , you're golden. Regular readers of this space will know there's a growing consensus that technology is physically changing the ways our brains work. Adina Levin thinks Facebook's not the best place for community organizers -- but it may depend on the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2005

Larry Summers is wrong (There is no conclusive research that women's brains are different). She suggested that we "propagate memes" - as she called to the bloghers in the room - go forth and propogate memes! By the end of his talk, there were no women hackers in the room." Female nerds need to organize.

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The Verge

MAY 18, 2021

But sometimes you have to turn your brain off with a dumb thing. For the makers of “baddie games,” leaning into a younger generation’s disconnect with history is the key to their success as imitating internet-speak, using memes, and catering to queer social media users become increasingly popular marketing strategies.

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Engadget

APRIL 15, 2025

For those wondering why the developer would even make a box that runs Doom , its because the games ability to run on weird things has become a beloved meme at this point. Doom has been found running on pregnancy tests , rat brain neurons and even via gut bacteria. This article originally appeared on Engadget at [link]

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The business bastard narrative keeps us locked into a scarcity mindset, whereas kindness rewires our brains toward abundance. A lot of what we see online regarding kindnessthe #be kind hashtag, social media memes, virtue signallingis people adopting kindness as part of their identity. Kindness is a verb.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Published on February 13, 2025 6:39 PM GMT Introduction I have long felt confused about the question of whether brain-like AGI would be likely to scheme, given behaviorist rewards. I claim that brain-like AGI is a not-yet-invented variation on Model-Based Reinforcement Learning (RL), for reasons briefly summarized in Valence series 1.2.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Images activate regions of the brain tied to emotion and memory more effectively than text and words, a well studied phenomenon known as the picture-superiority effect. Democratizing political commentary The power of AI-generated tariff memes lies in neuroscience but also in their ability to eliminate the need for imagination.

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The Verge

JUNE 16, 2020

becoming a meme on this week’s episode of The Vergecast. But also, you’ve kind of become a meme. And my mother used to say that she was going to donate my brain to Harvard Medical School as a completely unused human organ. NP: You’re a meme! MK: As all good memes should be, it’s authentic, right? We’re a tech site.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 10, 2025

The internet spun Duos passive-aggressive personality into a meme (including one much-circulated image of him holding a gun). Examples include Pop Tarts sacrificing one of its pastries at the Super Bowl and Nutter Butters brain rot-inspired, head-spinning TikTok page.

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