This Week in Dulture…

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📔: Living vicariously through AI videos

👟 Shoes shoes shoes

🏢 The obvious department

📜 Internet relics

Dulture weekly mix

This one time I had to introduce Arlene Dickinson at an event, where I kept all of my notes for her introduction my Notes App. It was a Shark Tank type of event so each “shark” that came out was given a pretty robust introduction, describing their background, accomplishments, and an interesting fact about them.

When it came time for Arlene to come out, I was ready to give her a grand introduction with my notes ready to go in my phone. As I spoke I guess my hand shook my phone which ultimately deleted everything in the Notes file. So I look down at my notes while on stage in front of everyone to see what to say next and IT’S ALL GONE.

Suffice to say I ended up saying something along the lines of she’s a really nice lady and a great entrepreneur and to just come on out, like she was on the Price is Right lol. I made it all up and it ended up being just fine.

Just like this week’s mix - it's all just made up on the fly and it’s just fine.

This Week in Sneakers

I feel like this should just be a section of the newsletter in general… 💡!

It’s always an interesting week in sneakers if you look hard enough. Luckily I looked for you and this is what I found:

Lego x Nike

The two iconic brands are collabing to bring you a Lego inspired Nike collection and Nike inspired Lego. Starting with Lego branded Nike Air Max DN’s and a Nike Dunk Lego set, this summer you can expect a whole lot of kids running around rocking Nike and Lego.

Rock Shoes

If there was ever a shoe that makes you want to say, “WHAT ARE THOSE???”, it would be these ones. From a NY fashion studio called Bravest and an artist named CANYAON, I present to you the Bravest x CANYAON ‘Rock Shoe’. And they’re only $110!

The Freshest Teacher

This teacher has come across my IG reels many times - essentially everyday he wears a different pair of shoes to school to teach his class. Imagine your teacher showed up to class in Off-White Jordan’s - that’s what this guy does. He recently put out a video showing every pair he wore for the year - definitely the freshest shoe collection from a teacher ever.

A Message from the Obvious Department

In a recent survey, 58% of employees admit to regularly pretending to work.

Dawg. C’mon. You ever work in an office? They ALL pretending to work.

You gotta tell me people are showing up to an office at 9AM and outside of their lunch and whatever else breaks they take, they’re fully engaged in meaningful work?

Nah - c’mon. I’ve worked with people where without a shadow of a doubt, EVERYTIME I went over to their desk YouTube was on their screen. You’d think they worked for YouTube, given how often they’d be on it.

23% of employees walked around the office with a notebook to appear busy and 22% have typed just to seem engaged.

I knew a guy who prided himself on his notebooks. Every meeting we went in he’d pull out the trusty notebook, take notes, and that’d be it. Dude never actually used any of the notes, he just brought the notebook into the meeting just so that he had something to bring to make it look like he was participating.

Workers are more inclined to work less at home with 42% of employees working from home admitting to wasting time.

Duh. How you think I’m grocery shopping with all the old retired people at the store?

A Weird Time Warp (Online)

If you ever want to look at old web pages that no longer exist, you can go here and essentially relive a lot of what you’ve seen on the internet over your lifetime.

However, if you’re looking for more of a ghost-town experience online, go check out Input Mag.

It’s not as cool as you may expect from a major website that simply stopped publishing, but there’s something eerie of 1) the site being still live and 2) everything being dated in 2022.