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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
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November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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productnerd.bsky.social
"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.)
November 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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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.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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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?
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October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Betterboss, day 1.
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Sign that says “you’re in the right place — Raw Signal Group.” Slide on a TV that reads, “show of hands.” Coat closet with a chevron on top of it.
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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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.
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October 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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profsera.bsky.social
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).

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You're probably not that hardcore
mailchi.mp
October 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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 👋)
A poster that says “where are the people pleasers” behind a window, with Melissa in the background A poster that says “where are the people pleasers” behind a window with Johnathan making a face in the background
October 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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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.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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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.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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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.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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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.
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August 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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lizthegrey.com
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."
None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Maybe I’m just hormonal but @rawsignal.ca - you weren’t supposed to make me cry today.
August 6, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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lizthegrey.com
every time something comes along that dismantles a symbolic barrier / economic class skill check, that barrier will be replaced with a new/different barrier.
August 6, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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lizthegrey.com
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
lizthegrey.com Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · Aug 6
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."
None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group
The difference between the theater of work and actual work.
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August 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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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.
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August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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shappy.bsky.social
"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.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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meganreally.bsky.social
reading this week's @rawsignal.ca email on the bus, almost missed my stop
Today, over in CEO-club, all the cool kids are forcing their employees to use AI. They write bombastic internal emails, and then post those publicly for their CEO friends to admire and riff on. They tie AI usage to performance evaluation and compensation. They tie it to promotions and headcount requests. These CEOs, many of whom have woefully incomplete policies on hate speech and harassment, are clear-as-day that failing to use this or that LLM is an immediately fireable offence. It's fair to ask why one should have to compel people to use a tool if it's so obviously incredible, but the CEOs are prepared for that question. Of course the tools are incredible, and many of their team members are already using them. But the pace of adoption needs to be faster. CEO social circles are often full of AI investors who assure them that even more powerful AI is just around the corner. And if their teams need some tough love in order to get with the program and see the vision, so be it.
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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robtaber.bsky.social
"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.
How did they not know?
mailchi.mp
July 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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hovdestad.ca
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.
How did they not know?
mailchi.mp
July 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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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.

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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.
www.rawsignal.ca
July 23, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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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.
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.
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July 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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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
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.
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June 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM