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Helping you deal with working in tech. Featuring advice columnist Zen Paycheck and comics by @theorangefedora.bsky.social Biweekly newsletter here: buttondown.com/LoweredTechspectatio…

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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At tech companies, meetings are the bane of your existence. It is a very small minority which have a clear agenda, start and end on time, and stay on topic. What if someone crashed your one-on-one, or your skip level? UGH. That's what this week's Lowered Techspectations newsletter is about.
Two panel snippet of a comic where Frank and Noah are meeting.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This week marks one year since we launched Lowered Techspectations at @smallpressexpo.bsky.social 2025! It's been a fun ride and we're still going strong :)
colorful cover art for Lowered Techspectations showing some familiar characters including Dogboss, Liz and Barb.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
On this week's Lowered Techspectations, dangerous acronyms 😱 🤡
Two panel snippet of a cartoon where a man wonders what does "ICP" mean?
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This sprint Lowered Techspectations is on hiatus, OOO, PTO, whatever you wanna call it. Sometimes you just need a break from the... expectations.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Today's Lowered Techspectations newsletter shows what goes wrong when everyone is prompting but no one is reading the output. Know the feeling? #techworkers #aislop
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Wait wait don't tell Dogboss! #overpaid.lol #chiefexecutivereplacementengine
screenshot of overpaid.lol website - "introducing the world's first chief executive replacement engine"
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Don't you hate it when you get assigned 'action items' from meetings you weren't even in?? Check out this week's newsletter!
comic panel of Flora shrugging and grimacing while saying "That's great, hackathons are always fun!"
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Strategent (the company where Lowered Techspecations takes place) conducts twice-annual biennial Employee Engagement Surveys, and then tries to act on the results.
Three panel cartoon of Dogboss asking for feedback from his employees, and berating them with "Don't all speak at once!"
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Wait, you draw all these comics by hand? Yes, @theorangefedora.bsky.social does. The latest newsletter dropped today.
Photo of the artist in front of paper comics pages
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Congratulations to Barb on earning Employee of the month at Strategent, again! She's gotten us out of so many scrapes, we truly CANNOT fire her. 😅
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
The alpha plane has had to make some serious pivots along the way.
two comics panels showing the robot team in the alpha plane, starting off with the goal of building a replicant style robot, then ending up with a smoke detector.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Great article on the miserable 'it's inevitable' language coming from AI boosters, written by Mike Monteiro of Mule Design.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Dogboss is distancing himself from the Ferrari situation.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Tech support isn't what it used to be.
A woman kneels on the floor in front of the toilet with her hair pulled back. Towards her phone, she says "Ok, honey, I'm going to try 'clearing my cookies'".
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
We're thought-leading on LinkedIn! Follow Strategent or Dogboss Hound for the latest jargon and highest ROI
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Darlington, a brave speech engineer at Strategent, volunteered to try the new portal to another dimension. In today's newsletter you find out where he went. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
Profile of Darlington, with a short bio and a drawing of him. He has a pig head and 1950's Dad glasses. He's "great at building speech recognition models, bad at communication"
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Guess who joined LinkedIn?
Screenshot of a linkedin invite from Dogboss Hound, CEO of Strategent
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Isn't there always that ONE GUY?? Read this week's Lowered Techspectations to get the goss. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
Cartoon panel of two women in a conference room, one is saying "Hey Liz, now that it's just us, I can tell you about that guy in the meeting."
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
This week's Lowered Techspectations is a double feature - one comic and one advice column! Check it out: buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
Two panels of a longer comic titled "Robot team steerco". We see a team gathered in a conference room, and then a close up of one nervous-looking product manager saying "so, we made some pivots..."
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Providing tech support is a messy job sometimes. 🤢
Cartoon of an older woman kneeling in front of the toilet with her hair pulled back. She's on the phone, saying, "OK honey, I'm going to try "clearing my cookies"."
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This sprint's newsletter is a double feature! Read the latest from the AI-powered Replicant team, and an advice column for a new hire. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...
Colorful promo graphic for Lowered Techspectations with some of the characters in Zoom-style squares.
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Lowered Techspectations @loweredtech.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's Flora and Liz's first day at Strategent, and it's my first day on Bluesky!
Cartoon panel titled "New Employee Tour". A lizard creature if sitting at a table with an elephant woman and a human woman.
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