You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

There's HEEEEEERE artologica.etsy.com Original watercolors that reject AI. One of each, unique.

Today’s.

Beatrix: Nine and a Half

When I first started doing the "fixer" kind of work, it didn't take long to start feeling lonely. Which was really weird. I was talking to more people than ever before. And people were most certainly grateful! But no one really understood what it was that I did and why.

The shift in this model is that we're no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.

one aside based on @rawsignal.ca: I once heard it touted that AI would level the field for marginalised people, by ensuring people who'd never created a pitch deck/cover letter could make one now. if VCs are no longer reading pitch decks because they're all AI, then they're going on "gut" = bias

Also if you aren’t subscribed to their newsletter what are you even doing with your life.

The difference between the theater of work and actual work. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Mandatory reading today from @rawsignal.ca: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/ho... It is offensive how good @johnathan.bsky.social and @shappy.bsky.social are at nailing the workplace issues around AI.

"It's fair to ask why one should have to compel people to use a tool if it's so obviously incredible." @rawsignal.ca on the AI boomlet and the hazards to their own workers many tech CEOs are ignoring.

We're still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they're haunting. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

The people who tout this model of ambition have a whole cinematic universe of heroes and villains and moral dramas and cautionary tales.

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If you've been feeling stuck. And don't know what you'd do next. If you've been feeling disconnected from your work. And chanting "it's just a job, who cares" in your head isn't making it easier. The next Pulse is for you. One hour. Friday, July 18. $99 to attend. All proceeds donated to Eva's.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Perhaps a tweak of the algorithm is in order.

It’s wild to me how much excellent work, across such a wide spectrum, @marisakabas.bsky.social is putting up right now. I don’t need to pit journalists against one another, the whole industry seems so rough right now, but also she is straight up out-reporting whole newsrooms

"I just want to make it clear that we don't like Nazis either-we wish no-one held those views. But" See, that's the problem with But.

One more shot from the red winged blackbird wars. #birds

wonder how the “our ICE contract was only $200,000” githubbers feel these days

The nakedness of the "fuck you, you deal with the costs of my laziness" is really getting to fever pitch. I got this email yesterday and somehow the last line makes a shitty thing so much shittier?

this is very close to being the best selling item ever in the squid shop, and it's not even about a squid help my bee reach the top lmao

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Is this what it means to work with a vendor these days? www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

It’s all horrible and nihilistic but I intend to feel very Parisian about it. I write my own words and protect my neighbors from Covid and continue to badly play piano, but now it’s sexy and deviant. I’m gonna take a lover and start wearing big sunglasses.

Nature is healing

lol this is patently ridiculous, almost Inception levels of not giving an independent journalist credit. Subscribe to The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co

Several beautiful “well, shit.” moments in here.

While they’re doing that, while they are out there on the edge of what’s possible, stop fucking with the seating chart.

Evergreen post independent of context.

The soundtrack for the first third of 2025 is just a mechanical voice intoning "TERRAIN. PULL UP. TERRAIN. PULL UP. TERRAIN. PULL UP." over and over and over again.

"I guess it really is a Big Tent" I yell over the sounds of breaking glass caused by David Brooks throwing a metal trash can through the window of a Starbucks to distract the police while Bill Kristol spray paints NO SYSTEM BUT THE ECOSYSTEM on a cop car

I love this interactive visualization by The Pudding of the shared DNA of music (i.e. how “borrowed beats, loaned lyrics, and multipurpose melodies” are passed down through generations of music, from Edvard Grieg (1876) to Tupac). [pudding.cool]

We talk with people building amazing things all the time, from founders to interns, and none of them sound like this. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

How, HOW are you not already subscribed to this thing?

"Forcing dedicated and decorated staff to resign based on their gender identity is not good fucking management. Eliminating a program literally focused on elevating great management is…well it’s not great." See? 🔥🔥🔥

"Midnight layoffs of gold-standard teams finding hundreds of millions in savings is not good management. Eliminating policies that drive transparency and accountability is not good management. Double-counting and faking your metrics is not good management."

"Intentionally putting teams into chronic stress is not good management, it’s ideology. Sending conflicting orders within the same management chain is not good management, it’s incompetence. Understaffing critical roles is not good management, it’s poor impulse control."

I missed this when it first dropped, but damn @jonathannight.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social this is 🔥❤️‍🔥 www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-signed approaches to labour. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

SCOOP: DOGE notified the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) today that the entire staff is being put on administrative leave effective immediately, I’ve learned from an agency source. They’ll be cancelling huge swaths of grants/contracts and starting a Reduction in Force (RIF).

In terms of industry journalists doing the work, so much appreciation for @catherinemcintyre.bsky.social's writing at @thelogic.co — this isn't even a hit piece, it just accurately points to the bullshit and lets it speak for itself. 👏🏻

If you self-identify as a people-pleaser, and you’re in management, look over here for a sec.

What Brandon said.