Mindsets & Growth
Your Other Language Skills
Your language skills matter more than ever - but not the ones you think. Industries, sectors, scenes. The jargon, the rhythm, the sub-sub-sub of it all. Which ones do you speak?
Howard Gray
Mindsets & Growth
What Do You Do?
How do you explain what you do in two sentences? Your career, your side project, the thing you still can't describe to your parents?
A.I.
Piano for the Office
In 1906, typing was marketed to women as "piano for the office." Safe. Respectable. Those same roles are now most exposed to AI automation.
Creative Business
The Jetpack That Doesn't Work
Citymapper lets you choose a jetpack, hoverboard, or catapult to get across town. None of them work. And that might be exactly the point.
Creative Business
The Garage
Most startup origin stories start where the founder wants them to. Ask what came before the garage. What's not in the story?
Howard's Riffs
Chicken or Egg?
A touch of Grafitti wisdom
Mindsets & Growth
The Mistake Picnic
Patrick Collison spent three hours going through every mistake in Michael Ovitz's memoir. There's something unfashionable about that. And something worth noticing.
A.I.
Taste the Soup
In 'Ratatouille', anyone can cook - but a great chef has to taste the soup. This applies to AI too. The skill now is judgment, not production.
A.I.
Three Big A.I. Bets - keynote
A 25-minute talk on the three bets every services business is already making - whether they've named them or not. Talent, model, positioning. Recorded in Paris.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #21 - The Fourteen Hour Queue
What a '90s London music scene reveals about the audiences that actually matter
Creative Business
Boredom created Bond
Ian Fleming wrote his Bond novels at a villa with no hot water and no glass in the windows. I think I've found my equivalent.
Howard's Riffs
I'd love to work with you
Someone offered to help without showing they'd read what I sent. One detail would have been enough. Which makes it stranger when it's missing.
Howard's Riffs
The Sphere Wasn't Built for Rock Bands
A side project from an Italian techno duo is now selling out 18,000-seat venues with robotic cellos and an AI character rendered across a 16K dome.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #20 - The Little Green Arrow
Guide or operator? Citymapper tried both. What happened matters for anyone in the advice business.
A.I.
Claude reaches for the Skills
A small shift - seemingly
A.I.
So... what happens next?
Don't ask the AI boosters. Or the doomers. Can someone else help me understand?
Learning Innovation
Don't Interrupt the Game
Two cultures. Same century. Same invention. Both driven by gamblers who refused to stop playing.
Future Of Work
Futsal
Brazil's reputation for producing incredible footballers isn't just climate or culture. It's a smaller pitch and a ball that doesn't bounce.
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