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...

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.

Have you been to a program and called it "the most transformative experience of my career so far?" That's what an actual leader said about an actual program. About Betterboss, in fact. If your career needs some transformation... Applications are open for the October cohort: betterboss.ca

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

If you saw someone being sexually harassed on the train, would you know how to help? If you saw transphobia at your local coffee shop, would you know how to intervene without making things worse? Let me teach you effective bystander intervention - for free! Register : zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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...