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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Please pretty please don't take Brian's advice. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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You can be wrong, even on your birthday - Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
These are magic beans, not thought leadership.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
it's always odd when "you should expose yourself to more diverse ideas" always means a certain kind of conservatism instead of like, Indigenous art, new fusion foods, math paradoxes, or the Dvorak keyboard layout
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 05/08/2026
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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To misunderstand and be misunderstood - Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
Not every piece of workplace feedback lends itself to 100pt font.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 08/07/2026
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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First draw two circles - Johnathan & Melissa
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 11/06/2026
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.
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The wrong tool for the job - Johnathan & Melissa
More difficult. Messier. Slower. These are not selling points.
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Pete @barleywhiner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
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”
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Team @rawsignal.ca is in @theglobeandmail.com talking dead rats in frying pans and transformation www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
How, you might ask, did the rat get *into* the frying pan? www.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/...
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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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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 13/05/2026
This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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The decision that ruined business travel forever - Johnathan & Melissa
This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts.
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amy buckland @jambina.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My favourite newsletter continues to be my favourite. "Catastrophically deadass backwards wrong."
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jamie ☺︎ @jazzyjams.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Another banger by @rawsignal.ca
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The people who care are having the hardest time - Johnathan & Melissa
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.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Holy crap it’s been 20 years since The Show with @zefrank.bsky.social
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 10/04/2026
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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
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.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 08/04/2026
On AI, margin pressure, and outsourcing all the best parts of work. Oh, and on inventing tomorrow. How's that for clickbait?
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Shocking, I know. But the loudest conflict going on at work right now is not between prod and eng.
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andi a @andia.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Some sane and pithy thoughts amidst the AI froth: mailchi.mp/rawsignal/no...
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Nonsense masquerading as insight
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Brandon Rohrer @brandonrohrer.com · 07/04/2026
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?...
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What AI Is Actually Doing to the Workforce
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Rob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
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.
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Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers?
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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Pete @barleywhiner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The most accurate description of the job market right now.
Our most-optimized process includes job postings that no one wrote, no one has read, responded to with resumés that no one wrote, with AI coming in to whittle it all down to a list of ideal candidates where not a single person can explain how the system determines ideal.
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Scott Richards @discuit.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
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…”
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Shannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“Questions slow you down.” Yes! Exactly why I love them.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 18/03/2026
Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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Nonsense masquerading as insight - Johnathan & Melissa
Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
rusty.rawsignal.ca
rusty.rawsignal.ca
We are all rusty
You're in good company. We can do creative, expansive, incredible work. But we can't do it alone.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
@matthewhughes.bsky.social Appreciated the manifesto very much. Thanks for writing it.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
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.
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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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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 18/02/2026
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...
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
@alexriehl.com your Q&A on Moltbook with Paterson was great, thanks for writing it
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Chris Riley @mchrisriley.com · 04/02/2026
"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...
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You are not entirely powerless
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2026
Even when there’s no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
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Deaths, detentions and deportations of American citizens in the second Trump administration - Wikipedia
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Hey, this is really nice and thank you. <3 Also, everyone listen to Laura. Go sign up. worldsbestnewsletter.com
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The World's Best Newsletter
Raw Signal Group's free, biweekly newsletter about management, leadership, and ridding the world of Sunday Scaries. For good.
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Laura Hug @lhug.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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."
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 21/01/2026
We need to acknowledge that the fake-it-and-hope-no-one-notices approach to management is having a real moment right now. www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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At best an imposter, at worst a fraud - Johnathan & Melissa
We need to acknowledge that the fake-it-and-hope-no-one-notices approach to management is having a real moment right now.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
WE DID IT 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Gotta say, if you are in Canadian tech, @aleksagan.bsky.social is someone you should be reading more.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Hey. Hey. Hey. Northern hemisphere folks. You made it. Tomorrow the days start getting longer again. ❤️
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Toronto go see the sunrise right now if you can ❤️
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May Likes Product @productnerd.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is the most human piece I've read in a long time. Highly recommend taking a break and sitting with it for a while. sightlessscribbles.com/the-coloniza...
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The Colonization of Confidence., Sightless Scribbles
A fabulously gay blind author.
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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.
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Kate Hovdestad @hopefulbullshit.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Whole lotta Games Industry CEOs and Shareholders that need to read this one.
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Raw Signal Group @rawsignal.ca · 26/11/2025
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...
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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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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
@sarahsteinlubrano.bsky.social reading your book right now and chapter three is fucking 🔥. Really appreciate the integrative, inter-disciplinary approach you’re taking with it. Thanks for writing this.
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Melissa Nightingale @shappy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Little known fact. This is how @johnathan.bsky.social and I write our newsletter every two weeks.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am so upset. Last week Time Magazine solicited a piece from me on Zohran Mamdani & anti-Muslim hate. I pitched a framing re the dehumanization of Muslims & how Mamdani’s inclusive, socialist campaign in its content resists that. They agreed. I wrote the piece. 1/
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Listen. Listen. @shappy.bsky.social and I are making new stickers and they're going to be very good. That is all.
Overhead photo of the Raw Signal Group HQ sticker bowl, with several of our favourites laid out on a coffee table, including the RACI knuckle tattoos, "Super fucking clear", Really just like this, and Swearing is caring.
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