Most bosses develop an intuition for when something’s brewing. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

Feeling this quote as a fairly new manager. “Management is nearly unique as a discipline in that most people doing it were trained to do something else, promoted because of that other skillset, and given little to no guidance on how to do their current job”

As a manager, it's hard to look at these two columns and not ask yourself where your people would place you. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

The Raw Signal Group, 1414 Danforth Ave., stands as one of the oldest bank buildings in Toronto, constructed in 1919, displaying a Neo Gothic and Art Deco architectural style. beachmetro.com/2026/05/20/r...

Team @rawsignal.ca is in @theglobeandmail.com talking dead rats in frying pans and transformation www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...

This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

This is a "what matters is what matters" newsletter. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

It's not just you--job hunting today really is a beast. As @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social put it, the front door is fucked. The secret? Focus on connecting with actual human people. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

There's a massive difference between what a lot of workplaces THINK they're asking of their people re: using AI... And what's actually happening. @shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social talked about that difference with @theatlantic.com recently:

LET'S GO BUILD THAT

Shocking, I know. But the loudest conflict going on at work right now is not between prod and eng.

Just found one of the last places in Canada that stocks Old Bay hot sauce and bought out their entire stock. Except one bottle. If you need to know where to find it, dm me.

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

Today.

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 👋)

Today’s.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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"

"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...

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

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.

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

In case you need a slow boot today, here. I got this for you. open.spotify.com/playlist/2F2...

The social card pulled its own copy. Swear.

I’m sure you *can* write about wrong-headed and menacing corporate attempts at performance management without referencing The Princess Bride, but why would you? Today’s newsletter from me and @shappy.bsky.social

This app would like you to know that I am a nerd. Zero surprise, app. And I would like you to know that tomorrow's newsletter is fighty as all hell. If you're subscribed on a work account that filters for swearing, um, gonna need you to go sign up with your personal account please and thank you.

Prepping tomorrow’s newsletter. It is about #xoxofest cause of course it is. And you can get a copy right to your inbox if you want. Worldsbestnewsletter.com

Flying out of PDX with full hearts and full bellies. Grateful for an amazing #xoxofest

OH: I’ve got skulls and puffins and you’ve got stickers, right? Packing for the one and only #xoxofest

Ok #xoxofest friends. How there are this many channels but not a single one on circus arts or juggling. Where are you all hiding?

I feel bad for not telling bsky about my day job but: if you manage a team and it’s hard and you could use some new tools, @shappy.bsky.social and I really are very good at what we do. www.rawsignal.ca/bpx

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