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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
David! This is really kind, and thank you for getting what we're up to. 🫶🏻
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Hey thanks for the inclusion! 🫶🏻
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Hey thanks Liz ❤️ My dad used to say “stop using your muscles and use your brain” — at least once while trying to fish screws out of a PC case — but I like this version more, since AIUI it’s less about the broad superiority of a specific tool, and more about tool-task fit.
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
(Hey thanks for reading!)
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Brandoooonnnnn! 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 Would you believe our full conversation was twice this length? @cwarzel.bsky.social saving up the bloopers for an end of season round up, I presume.
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
🫶🏻🫶🏻
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🫶🏻 thanks for reading, Pete
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
(Thanks, Scott 🫶🏻)
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
(Hey thanks!)
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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 · 09/03/2026
Also "web4" 🤢
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Molly if Citation Needed/w3igjg expands to ALSO cover AI grift/"web4" I feel like we need to get you, like, some staff? Maybe a lot of staff?
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Backstory: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...
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We are all rusty - Johnathan & Melissa
This is a five-alarm fire in terms of human connection.
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
So was I
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Former friend, surely!
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
This was very good. Thanks for capturing the current critical moment, @eryk.bsky.social
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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 · 18/02/2026
Right??
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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
🫶🏻 thanks always for reading, friend!
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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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Johnathan Nightingale @johnathan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
🫶🏻 Thanks, Chris
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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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