https://sigsub.show/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-016/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-016-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 16 - Loyal to the Result, Not the Tool Cohost Lee Rodrigues dropped Final Cut Pro and his loyalty to a workflow that used to work. Sam goes one step further: loyalty belongs to the result, not any tool, old or new, and a tool's say-so isn't evidence. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KYPEyyvZ6r8 1560 2026-10-16T19:00:19-07:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-016/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-015/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-015-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 15 - You Have Data. Why Can't You Decide? Decision engineer Michelle Florendo on why more data has not made deciding easier: the hard part was never the options or the information, it is knowing what you want and counting the data that never reaches a dashboard. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pL0BRo7rt64 1620 2026-10-09T00:00:00Z https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-015/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-014/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-014-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 14 - My Agents Can't Delete Guest Limited Edition Jonathan returns with one idea told at three scales: learn the little things properly and they compound. A real estate company's 1.2 million files, and agents that cannot delete. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/sDOvLcYvrEw 1800 2026-10-02T00:00:00Z https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-014/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-013/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-013-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 13 - The Defaults Your Power Users Set Cohost Markus Bernhardt debuts with a signal about who sets the terms: the people most comfortable with AI configure it for themselves, and everyone else inherits the permissions. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/n8NWQkxknnc 1800 2026-09-25T08:00:00-06:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-013/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-012/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-012-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 12 - Automating Toward Freedom Guest Omar Ladak co-founded six construction and industrial services companies and built them, on purpose, to need less of him every year. The rule for what he will even look at fits on a post-it. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/fB1XMGFG9iU 1920 2026-09-19T21:54:05-06:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-012/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-011/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-011-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 11 - Before Signing That SaaS Renewal Guest Ankit Patel, who runs a company of about sixty people, refused to re-sign HubSpot, asked AI what open source could do instead, and had the replacement running on his own AWS in days. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/PDuWdFl-8-Y 1800 2026-09-10T08:19:41-07:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-011/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-010/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-010-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 10 - Good Enough for Agentic Work Guest Paul Gibbons spent a decade attacking change management for never proving it changed anything. Now he runs a multi-agent setup that drowns him in verification, and the habit of waving through unread work has to go. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/C58N8RnW3Nc 1800 2026-09-03T13:47:21-07:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-010/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-009/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-009-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 9 - Dig the Second Hole Cohost Lee Rodrigues nearly paid $4,000 to replace a water line that turned out to be brand new. The same move ends most rebuilds: run a test, run it twice, and don't let the tool define the problem. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RsgS44L88Rg 1740 2026-08-28T03:00:06-07:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-009/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-008/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-008-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 8 - Influence Over Reach Cohost JD Dillon and guest Josh Felix on influence, the workplace skill AI just repriced: everyone has ideas now, so getting the right person to reconsider and decide is the differentiator. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RUnYvI_Ftec 2220 2026-08-21T05:30:06-07:00 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-008/transcript/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/episodes/ep-007/ 2026-10-21 https://sigsub.show/imgs/episodes/ep-007-og.jpg Signals & Subtractions Ep 7 - Measuring Anything, Before the LLMs Douglas Hubbard wrote the book people hand you when you say something cannot be measured. Recorded in 2016, before anyone had an AI budget to defend. 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