Netflix Culture Deck

Biological Parallel

Orca pods transmit hunting techniques through explicit cultural teaching—mothers demonstrate seal-hunting tactics to calves through repeated practice, and different pods maintain distinct cultures (fish specialists vs marine mammal hunters) that persist for generations. These aren't genetic; they're culturally encoded norms that new members must learn to participate fully. Netflix's Culture Deck serves the same function: an explicit codification of behavioral norms (freedom, responsibility, context) that gets transmitted to new members, creating cultural coherence across a distributed organization through intentional enculturation rather than hoping osmosis works.