This is a really great conversation with @rawsignal.ca about the AI boom, what's going on inside tech companies with adoption, and what it means for the future of work.

The most accurate description of the job market right now.

Yes! This! “…management is a specifically human practice that seeks to get the best from a group of people by aligning their individual talents, motivations, and creativity with clearly communicated goals and opportunities. Good management centres the humanity of each employee…”

“Questions slow you down.” Yes! Exactly why I love them.

Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

@matthewhughes.bsky.social Appreciated the manifesto very much. Thanks for writing it.

To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

Is this just another hype cycle you can ignore until it dies off? Maybe. But our sense is that this one's gonna be different. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

@alexriehl.com your Q&A on Moltbook with Paterson was great, thanks for writing it

"Doing harm at scale requires infrastructure." So good, from @johnathan.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social I always read World's Best Newsletter, but this one I am going to save and reread. mailchi.mp/rawsignal/yo...

Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.

Hey, this is really nice and thank you. <3 Also, everyone listen to Laura. Go sign up. worldsbestnewsletter.com

If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."

We need to acknowledge that the fake-it-and-hope-no-one-notices approach to management is having a real moment right now. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

WE DID IT 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

Something folks can do in the coming weeks is to organize Ice Watch Training in your communities. There's an excellent resource that can help you to do this: docs.google.com/document/d/1... - Get five people together in person or virtually and get skilled up together.

Gotta say, if you are in Canadian tech, @aleksagan.bsky.social is someone you should be reading more.

Hey. Hey. Hey. Northern hemisphere folks. You made it. Tomorrow the days start getting longer again. ❤️

Toronto go see the sunrise right now if you can ❤️

This is the most human piece I've read in a long time. Highly recommend taking a break and sitting with it for a while. sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

Whole lotta Games Industry CEOs and Shareholders that need to read this one.

If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it's time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues... www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social reading your book right now and chapter three is fucking 🔥. Really appreciate the integrative, inter-disciplinary approach you’re taking with it. Thanks for writing this.

Little known fact. This is how @johnathan.bsky.social and I write our newsletter every two weeks.

I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/

Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.

It's about the e/acc chuckleheads, and we've already gotten a complaint about The Language and bsky I don't know how you could ask for more, really.

wake up babe we’re rousing the creatures that have slumbered beneath our feet for centuries www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

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...