You are not entirely powerless
February 4, 2026
How do you check power that’s not-presently-checked?
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How did they not know?
July 23, 2025
We’re still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they’re haunting.
Apropos of everything
January 22, 2025
If we all show up with different ick, whose wins? How do we break ties?
Who gets Humperdinck?
November 2, 2022
For many bosses, it’s clear that the more you look and talk and vibe like Elon, the more permission you’ll get to be capricious and abusive and cynical.
We didn’t build *that* Better boss
December 15, 2021
People send us the links in part because, haha, you build better bosses. Here’s the literal CEO of Better and seems like he could have used some management training. Hardy har har. But some of them also want to know, “Is this normal?” And if so, how often does this happen? And why?
Companies don’t make decisions, people do
October 7, 2020
So on the one hand, you have employees agitating for a more complete view of how their employers’ activities impact the world. And on the other you have CEOs hoping that no one will notice those impacts.
Who manages the managers?
October 9, 2019
A special edition of the newsletter, for the worst reason
Where are my infectious disease specialists?
September 25, 2019
Back from betterboss with therapy, coaches, and crisis
Nightingales don’t fail. And other bullshit.
July 3, 2019
Why yes, there *is* a secret announcement in this one.
Definitely not your guru
May 22, 2019
Who has built a business that’s out there trying to help people do better by themselves and others?
No thank you
April 10, 2019
🎵 And for that I say…
Let’s talk about your plan to run a consequence-free company
June 19, 2017
Decency debt, how it accumulates, and how it gets called
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