A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The photographer who snapped the photos of the Artemis II crew’s return to Earth spent years honing his craft on a Navy aircraft carrier.

A list of unheralded improvements to ordinary quality-of-life since the 1990s going beyond computers.

The violent response to an attempted murder would have happened regardless of Musk, Lee Hurley writes.

This blog post takes us back to 2010, retracing and incident where a statistical anomaly led to the discovery of a subtle flaw in the way we were using a security-critical library.

I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

NFTs, the metaverse and AI are the most recent Silicon Valley enthusiasms. Does anyone remember how to build a consumer product?

Five Italian divers died in a cave at 55 m. Before anyone delivers a verdict, here are the questions Just Culture demands we ask first — and why their sequence matters.

World War II has faded into movies, anecdotes, and archives that nobody cares about anymore. Are we finally losing the war?

A blog series in which I reread LOTR 50 years after I first read it, age 10, over the winter of 1975-76. Pippin and Merry come as a double act (not exactly ‘dumb and dumber’, but not a million miles from that either) in the Jackson film version of LOTR, providing both light relief and…