Raw Signal Group
@rawsignal.ca
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We build better bosses. Authors of the world's best newsletter —
https://worldsbestnewsletter.com/
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...
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All hat, no cattle - Raw Signal Group
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
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/all-hat-no-cattle/
9 days ago
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May Likes Product
23 days ago
"Capitalism isn't skipping 1:1s, giving toxic feedback, or changing goals frameworks every quarter — fucking Mike is doing that." (Mike was a great boss though.)
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If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility.
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With love in our hearts for your eventual revolution - Raw Signal Group
If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/with-love-in-our-hearts-for-your-eventual-revolution/
23 days ago
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The real test for an org is not whether you ever bet wrong. The question is, when the results start to come in, what do you do now?
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Don't let the Doerr hit you on the way out - Raw Signal Group
The real test for an org is not whether you ever bet wrong. The question is, when the results start to come in, what do you do now?
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/dont-let-the-doerr-hit-you-on-the-way-out/
about 1 month ago
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Betterboss, day 1. 🫶
about 2 months ago
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It’s hard to push decision-making to the edges if we're not sure how the edges are making decisions.
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The price of admission - Raw Signal Group
It's hard to push decision-making to the edges if we're not sure how the edges are making decisions.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-price-of-admission/
about 2 months ago
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Sera Markoff
about 2 months ago
I really enjoyed this post by
@rawsignal.ca
against the pressure (in industry, but also very true for academia 🧪🔭) to overwork at the cost of having time to think, breathe and yes, be creative (it is related).
mailchi.mp/rawsignal/yo...
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You're probably not that hardcore
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/youre-probably-not-that-hardcore?e=7945cf9383
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Pictured:
@shappy.bsky.social
trying to get out of the way of the photo. Also pictured:
@johnathan.bsky.social
well, uh, doing the exact opposite. Also also pictured: new window art at the bank (our HQ is a restored bank if you’re new here hi 👋)
2 months ago
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You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.
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You're probably not that hardcore - Raw Signal Group
You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/youre-probably-not-that-hardcore/
2 months ago
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Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go.
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You are not a machine that receives tasks - Raw Signal Group
Folks who study meaning at work have three buckets. We love a good three-bucket framework. Let's go.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/you-are-not-a-machine-that-receives-tasks/
3 months ago
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The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this.
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If you're not reading this email, you're fired - Raw Signal Group
The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/if-youre-not-reading-this-email-youre-fired/
3 months ago
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The shift in this model is that we're no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.
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I hope they're paying you enough for this - Raw Signal Group
The shift in this model is that we're no longer talking about a cofounder or a bestie or work spouse.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/i-hope-theyre-paying-you-enough-for-this/
4 months ago
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
4 months ago
Speaking of which, I encourage you all to read
@rawsignal.ca
's newsletter today:
www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
"[Eric Schmidt thinks] automating away the humans is righteous b/c it will reduce dependence on entitled employees, and produce appropriate level of fear/obedience in ones who remain."
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None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/none-of-this-is-real-and-it-doesnt-matter/
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Kate Hovdestad
4 months ago
Maybe I’m just hormonal but
@rawsignal.ca
- you weren’t supposed to make me cry today.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
4 months ago
every time something comes along that dismantles a symbolic barrier / economic class skill check, that barrier will be replaced with a new/different barrier.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)
4 months ago
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
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The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
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None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/none-of-this-is-real-and-it-doesnt-matter/
4 months ago
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Melissa Nightingale
4 months ago
"Sorta like Napster, just post-DMCA." IYKYK
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How did they not know? - Raw Signal Group
We're still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they're haunting.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/how-did-they-not-know/
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Megan
4 months ago
reading this week's
@rawsignal.ca
email on the bus, almost missed my stop
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Rob Taber
4 months ago
"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.
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How did they not know?
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/how-did-they-not-know?e=3949e38ec8
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Kevin Hovdestad
4 months ago
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.
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How did they not know?
https://mailchi.mp/rawsignal/how-did-they-not-know?e=31d957e68e
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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...
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How did they not know? - Raw Signal Group
We're still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they're haunting.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/how-did-they-not-know/
4 months ago
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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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The narrowest definition of ambition - Raw Signal Group
The people who tout this model of ambition have a whole cinematic universe of heroes and villains and moral dramas and cautionary tales.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-narrowest-definition-of-ambition/
5 months ago
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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
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Betterboss - Raw Signal Group
Betterboss is an in-person intensive for senior leaders (Directors, VPs, C-suite, founders) to work on the specific challenges of their roles.
https://betterboss.ca
5 months ago
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What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?
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Busy is not a personality - Raw Signal Group
What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/busy-is-not-a-personality/
5 months ago
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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.
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Pulse: Ambition - Raw Signal Group
Pulse is a morning business rave. We come together for an hour to go deep on a single topic.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/events/pulse-ambition/
6 months ago
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Megan
6 months ago
This week's newsletter from
@rawsignal.ca
is really pushing the painful buttons. "Bring your slop to work day", AI in the workplace (for management, in particular). Push-back against LLM use and "punishment for caring"...wooooof. Yeah
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It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
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Bring your slop to work day - Raw Signal Group
It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/bring-your-slop-to-work-day/
6 months ago
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Melissa Nightingale
6 months ago
Do you really hate the work that much?
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Bring your slop to work day - Raw Signal Group
It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/bring-your-slop-to-work-day/
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Is this what it means to work with a vendor these days?
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The switching costs aren't that high - Raw Signal Group
Is this what it means to work with a vendor these days?
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-switching-costs-arent-that-high/
7 months ago
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If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
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20k of headache - Raw Signal Group
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/20k-of-headache/
7 months ago
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We talk with people building amazing things all the time, from founders to interns, and none of them sound like this.
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The poser manifesto - Raw Signal Group
We talk with people building amazing things all the time, from founders to interns, and none of them sound like this.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-poser-manifesto/
8 months ago
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Melissa Nightingale
8 months ago
OH
@rawsignal.ca
HQ on Newsletter Tuesday: "I don't think we can add in the Fraggle Rock thing cause it's gonna take at least 150 words to explain what we're talking about"
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Ahh! A newsletter shoutout in the wild! 💌 The latest episode of the We Not Me podcast features
@wetherhold.bsky.social
in an amazing conversation about change. And it includes his highly recommended books + pods + resources. Including a newsletter that's "a bit of a risk" (at the 33-min mark) 😏😏😏
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Why We Are Approaching Change All Wrong – And What to Do Instead
We Not Me · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7ufm6aFuP0VIs7aE9Nvhlq?si=ZNC-18VQT7uQRuMvLMDHnA
8 months ago
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Melissa Nightingale
8 months ago
The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-signed approaches to labour.
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The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour.
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The enshittification of work - Raw Signal Group
The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-enshittification-of-work
8 months ago
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On Friday morning, we’re getting together to talk about Change. Change like the spring equinox. Like Q2. Like all the headlines lately. Like…so many things, at work and not at work. ❣️This Friday. 10-11 am eastern. On zoom.❣️ It's $99 to register and we're donating all proceeds to Friends of Ruby.
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Pulse: Change - Raw Signal Group
Pulse is a morning business rave. We come together for an hour to go deep on a single topic.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/events/pulse-march-2025/
8 months ago
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Sometimes we do management training. And sometimes we do…other things. 🧘
9 months ago
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The biggest issue for people-pleasing leaders isn't that they need to be tougher. Or scream more. Or play a different boss on TV.
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Where are the people-pleasers? - Raw Signal Group
The biggest issue for people-pleasing leaders isn't that they need to be tougher. Or scream more. Or play a different boss on TV.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/where-are-the-people-pleasers/
9 months ago
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What Brandon said.
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9 months ago
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If you've been struggling with change lately, especially in a work context, where you often have limited control, influence, or say in the matter... Change is the topic for our next Pulse. 👉 Join us on Friday, March 28 at 10-11 am ET. 👈 It’s $99 to attend, and all proceeds go to charity!!!
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Pulse: Change - Raw Signal Group
Pulse is a morning business rave. We come together for an hour to go deep on a single topic.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/events/pulse-march-2025/
9 months ago
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There are two familiar faces/voices (oh hi
@shappy.bsky.social
&
@johnathan.bsky.social
) on the latest ep of Work Face with
@benjaminjackson.bsky.social
🎧 Talking about
@xoxofest.com
, their own experiences with scrap-paper / duct-tape management, and feedback that actually works. There are swears:
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Your Manager Is Winging It (with Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale)
Work Face · Episode
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mfagaOLFgSsirLUsTEkU8?si=hxBsZiPKQcO-EZNkYWo-Mw
9 months ago
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May Likes Product
9 months ago
What got to me about this one is keeping your people in permanent stress mode to pull 1000% of their capacity out of them. Really has me interrogating my relationship with "meaningful work" that often burns me out. Always worth reading.
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jamie !!!!!!
9 months ago
Shouting out Raw Signal Group for all the truth bombs in today's newsletter.. Worth a read 📚
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
9 months ago
Today's newsletter from my friends at
@rawsignal.ca
deserves a great big THIS THIS THIS: "Government doesn't have a profit-based business model because government isn't a profit-based business. Government shouldn't move fast and break things because government is civic infrastructure and +
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Run it like a business.
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Run it like a business - Raw Signal Group
You should have just said "run it badly."
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/run-it-like-a-business/
9 months ago
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Johnathan Nightingale
10 months ago
The anger we talk about here is real — the need people have to fight us on it. It's part of why
@shappy.bsky.social
and I are still here eight years in making noise about it.
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To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
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The heart of it - Raw Signal Group
To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/the-heart-of-it/
10 months ago
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Johnathan Nightingale
10 months ago
From me and
@shappy.bsky.social
, for our people watching their work be torn apart by leaders deliberately breaking shit.
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Nothing about this is temporary - Raw Signal Group
The thing you can't do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-archive/nothing-about-this-is-temporary/
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