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...

"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.)

If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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? www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Betterboss, day 1. 🫶

It’s hard to push decision-making to the edges if we're not sure how the edges are making decisions. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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...

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 👋)

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...

The first and easiest gut check in terms of whether your workplace surveillance is helpful or harmful is this. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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...

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."

Maybe I’m just hormonal but @rawsignal.ca - you weren’t supposed to make me cry today.

every time something comes along that dismantles a symbolic barrier / economic class skill check, that barrier will be replaced with a new/different barrier.

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

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

"Sorta like Napster, just post-DMCA." IYKYK www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

reading this week's @rawsignal.ca email on the bus, almost missed my stop

"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.

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.

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...

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

What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog? www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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.

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

It's definitely giving some low-key asbestos vibes. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Do you really hate the work that much? www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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

If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

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...

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"

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) 😏😏😏

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

The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour.

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.

Sometimes we do management training. And sometimes we do…other things. 🧘

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.

What Brandon said.

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!!!

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:

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.

Shouting out Raw Signal Group for all the truth bombs in today's newsletter.. Worth a read 📚

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 +

Run it like a business.

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.

To be worthy of your time, work needs to have dignity, meaning, and impact.

From me and @shappy.bsky.social, for our people watching their work be torn apart by leaders deliberately breaking shit.