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Comedy Hack Day SF: Whiskey Friday, Idea Pitches & Late Night Vineterviews
It’s about 3:30 am local time at Comedy Hack Day SF and we’re down to six people left awake, and one of those is the night-shift security guard. If you want to lump in Whiskey Friday—and who...
View ArticleBrief Overview Of Comedy Hack Day SF (aka: Don’t Worry, More Is Coming)
Who would have thought a 34-hour-long event culminating in three-plus hours of a livestreamed show with more than 200 people attending and tweeting and posting photos would result in so much stuff to...
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Comedy Hack Day SF Recap: Validating Bullshit And Embracing Your Crack
It’s The First 31 Hours That Matter Most Every hackathon should begin with the organizing team locked out of its offices. That’s precisely what happened to the Cultivated Wit team at Code For...
View ArticleVIDEO: Watch The First And Second Place Demos From Comedy Hack Day
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View ArticleComedy Hack Day SF Recap Phase 14: Our Highlight Reel Is Complete
You thought we were done wrapping up Comedy Hack Day SF? You thought wrong! Craig has finished compiling highlights from our event at Twitter, and now we are proud to present the final installment of...
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A Rooster Says “Savings!”: The Story Of Venture Barn
Now that Comedy Hack Day is a glimmer in the rearview mirror of our gold-plated Tesla, it’s time we discuss something very serious and dear to our heart: Venture Barn. As a rather soft promotional...
View ArticleJoe Garden’s Facebook Phone Review: Good For Nudging, Bad For Sacrificial...
Our good friend, former colleague, and favorite in-office bodega proprietor Joe Garden posted his review of the new Facebook Phone on Thing X today. If you’re in the market for phone that both connects...
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Patrick Moberg, Dots God: How High Art & Bill Cosby Inspired The Hottest...
A junkie sits alone in his ramshackle apartment, lit only by the glow of his smartphone screen. Unblinking, he taps and slides his finger along the screen like a panicked animal. “Squares, need...
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Cultivated Wit’s Guide To Total Dotmination
We recently spoke with Patrick Moberg who created the incredibly popular mobile game Dots, but somewhere in between chatting with him and actually publishing the interview there may or may not have...
View ArticleMeet The Cultivated Wit Of Killing Things
We’ve always liked to consider our company as existing within the overlap between technology and comedy/creativity. Well, listening to NPR yesterday I discovered the Cultivated Wit of shooting things...
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Need Inspiration? Watch Cartoons
At this point in my life, a full-grown adult without any kids, publicly sharing the amount of cartoons I watch would either call into question my mental capacities or land me on a sexual predator watch...
View ArticleRoom Jokes & The Silicon Valley Echo Chamber
This admittedly blurry photo is the old Onion writers room, sans table. It’s where I spent upwards of 10 hours a week for four years gaining an incredible appreciation for just how difficult it is to...
View ArticleBehind The Back Page: Wherein I Interview Baratunde About His Most Recent...
We’re doing a new thing, folks. And I have to say, of all the things we’ve ever done, this is definitely a new one. For those who don’t know, Baratunde writes the back page column for Fast Company....
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Stranger Than Fiction: Meet Two MIT Grads Who Built The Onion’s Non-Fiction...
How do you satirize satire? If you’re asking Dan Schultz and Matt Stempeck, the answer is: “you make it true.” Both are graduates of the MIT Media Lab, and earlier this year they created The On1on. It...
View ArticleThe Cultivated Wit World Tour Has Begun
This officially marks day one of our two-week corporate jaunt. We begin in Cannes, France for several days of meetings, panels, and Craig getting sun burned. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be here...
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Behind The Back Page Ep. 2: Baratunde Unplugs For Fast Company’s Cover Story
This is the second installment of our monthly video series wherein I chat with Baratunde about his monthly column in Fast Company. Only this time things are a little different because we’re not talking...
View ArticleHow To #Unplug In 6 Steps (Hint: Don’t Be Afraid To Burn All Your Worldly...
We spent some time last week working with Tapestry to help us bring a little more fun and strangeness into the typical “How To _____ In ___ Steps” world. What came out of it is this guide to following...
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3 Days In Berlin: We Came To Arrange A Comedy Hack Day, We Stayed To Trespass...
Scoring a business trip to Europe then only staying for four days would be like winning the lottery and only buying a new pair of shoes. It wasn’t gonna happen. So not long after AOL agreed to bring us...
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Awkward Black Girls & Pretty Grey Cubes: Funded Takes L.A.
New York is a literary city and also a place that you’re worried may kill you at any moment’s notice, so it’s little surprise that our first two episodes of Funded that we shot there carried similar...
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