Patterns and Signals · Archive

Archive

17 published issues, latest first.

• Weekly Weekly Signal — March 2 – March 8, 2026

  Industry defends strategy as the last bastion of value while community reports the structural collapse of entry-level paths.

  March 2–March 8, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — February 23 – March 1, 2026

  Industry treats accessibility as engineering and AI as a craft threat, while the community questions the value of polished portfolios and formal degrees.

  February 23–March 1, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — February 16 – February 22, 2026

  Industry chases cinematic polish and prompt engineering while community grapples with career saturation and the erosion of junior roles.

  February 16–February 22, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — February 9 – February 15, 2026

  Industry codifies accessibility and well-being as professional standards while the community reports a dismantled career ladder and eroding craft credibility.

  February 9–February 15, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — January 12 – January 18, 2026

  Industry defends subjective taste as a strategic asset while community rejects AI automation and broken career ladders.

  January 12–January 18, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — February 2 – February 8, 2026

  Industry argues for moral frameworks and technical rigor while community reports on vanishing entry roles and AI-driven anxiety.

  February 2–February 8, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — January 26 – February 1, 2026

  Industry debates the safety of speed while community critiques the aesthetics of survival.

  January 26–February 1, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — January 19 – January 25, 2026

  Industry frames broken career ladders as individual upskilling imperatives while community identifies them as systemic eliminations of entry-level pathways.

  January 19–January 25, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — January 5 – January 11, 2026

  Industry argues for AI collaboration and structural empowerment while the community reports broken career ladders and existential job anxiety.

  January 5–January 11, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — December 29 – January 4, 2026

  Industry argues for ethical guardrails and agentic shifts while community reports structural elimination of junior roles and aesthetic drift.

  December 29–January 4, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — December 22 – December 28, 2025

  Industry optimizes for prompt efficiency while community grapples with the erosion of junior roles and the performative nature of professional proof.

  December 22–December 28, 2025

• Weekly Weekly Signal — December 8 – December 14, 2025

  Industry debates the erosion of judgment while community grapples with the automation of entry-level work.

  December 8–December 14, 2025

• Weekly Weekly Signal — December 15 – December 21, 2025

  Industry argues for adaptation while community reports structural collapse, revealing a field split between professional rebranding and economic survival.

  December 15–December 21, 2025

• Weekly Weekly Signal — December 1 – December 7, 2025

  Industry frames continuous learning as a professional imperative while the community diagnoses the structural removal of the entry-level roles that made that learning possible.

  December 1–December 7, 2025

• Weekly Weekly Signal — April 20 – April 27, 2026

  Industry pushes for technical mastery as the new baseline, while the community retreats to visual rigor as the last defense against obsolescence.

  April 20–April 27, 2026

• Weekly Weekly Signal — November 24 – November 30, 2025

  Industry argues for structural integrity while community reports operational collapse, revealing a field where ethical ideals fail to survive daily resource constraints.

  November 24–November 30, 2025

• Weekly Weekly Signal — November 17 – November 23, 2025

  Industry prescribes structural collaboration to fix silos, while community reports that those same structures are the source of daily friction.

  November 17–November 23, 2025