Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
To misunderstand and be misunderstood - Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font.
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Johnathan Nightingale
@johnathan.bsky.social
I’m working on your boss. worldsbestnewsletter.com (he/him)
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
To misunderstand and be misunderstood - Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font.
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What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
First draw two circles - Johnathan & Melissa
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong.
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www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a... from @rawsignal.ca is worth reading. there's an expression 不順手 that encapsulates this concept of using the wrong tool, or using it poorly. like using a screwdriver at a tilted angle, or a hammer instead of screwdriver. a system works efficiently (順手) or it doesn't.
The wrong tool for the job - Johnathan & Melissa
More difficult. Messier. Slower. These are not selling points.
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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...
Team @rawsignal.ca is in @theglobeandmail.com talking dead rats in frying pans and transformation www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
New love for an old bank
‘You can’t move into a building like this and not take care of it’
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How, you might ask, did the rat get *into* the frying pan? www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
New love for an old bank
‘You can’t move into a building like this and not take care of it’
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This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
The decision that ruined business travel forever - Johnathan & Melissa
This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts.
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My favourite newsletter continues to be my favourite. "Catastrophically deadass backwards wrong."
That this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we're into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Holy crap it’s been 20 years since The Show with @zefrank.bsky.social
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...
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The number of questions we've gotten from bosses in the last year who are really trying their best to both manage their teams, their goals and commitments to the org, and their org's AI mandates, but where those things are all entirely out of alignment with each other... this is everywhere.
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:
On AI, margin pressure, and outsourcing all the best parts of work. Oh, and on inventing tomorrow. How's that for clickbait?
Shocking, I know. But the loudest conflict going on at work right now is not between prod and eng.
@shappy.bsky.social and @johnathan.bsky.social are on @theatlantic.com's Galaxy Brain with @cwarzel.bsky.social to talk about AI 🤝 management. And this part pretty much spells out one of the loudest conflicts going on at work right now:
Some sane and pithy thoughts amidst the AI froth: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/no...
Nonsense masquerading as insight
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This is what it sounds like when grown-ups talk about AI. Johnathan and Melissa are absolute legends. (this is a @rawsignal.ca stan account) youtu.be/ncmuXQGGqBM?...
What AI Is Actually Doing to the Workforce
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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This is a really great conversation with @rawsignal.ca about the AI boom, what's going on inside tech companies with adoption, and what it means for the future of work.
Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers?
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Yes! This! “…management is a specifically human practice that seeks to get the best from a group of people by aligning their individual talents, motivations, and creativity with clearly communicated goals and opportunities. Good management centres the humanity of each employee…”
Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Nonsense masquerading as insight - Johnathan & Melissa
Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild.
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@matthewhughes.bsky.social Appreciated the manifesto very much. Thanks for writing it.
To acknowledge the ways AI systems are changing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts. To make sense of what AI does to people, you also need to understand what it does for them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
Stochastic Flocks and the Critical Problem of 'Useful' AI
Acknowledging that AI systems are advancing does not buy into hype, it sharpens the precision of critical thinking about their impacts, says Eryk Salvaggio.
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Is this just another hype cycle you can ignore until it dies off? Maybe. But our sense is that this one's gonna be different. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
Get down off the table, my guy - Johnathan & Melissa
Is this just another hype cycle you can ignore until it dies off? Maybe. But our sense is that this one's gonna be different.
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@alexriehl.com your Q&A on Moltbook with Paterson was great, thanks for writing it
"Doing harm at scale requires infrastructure." So good, from @johnathan.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social I always read World's Best Newsletter, but this one I am going to save and reread. mailchi.mp/rawsignal/yo...
You are not entirely powerless
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Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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Hey, this is really nice and thank you. <3 Also, everyone listen to Laura. Go sign up. worldsbestnewsletter.com
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If you manage people, and you don't read @rawsignal.ca's newsletter... well, that's probably fine but you definitely should start. On managing teams when you don't have the relevant expertise: "The tools are getting faster but the core issue was never that you were bullshitting slowly."