A.I.
My A.I stack - February, 2026
Tools come and go. Here's where I've landed on the AI stack - for now.
Howard Gray
Mindsets & Growth
It’s not their fault
Most feedback feels useless. But that's not on them - it's on us to extract what they really mean.
Creative Business
There is no Goose
There's a lot of Clay Davis energy in AI right now. People selling the golden goose. But real results come from the unglamorous work nobody wants to talk about.
Newsletter
Groove Theory #18 - Does Grand Theft Auto’s sewer system go anywhere?
Why 1.3m people watch a man examine video game drainage systems.
A.I.
Notes on Claude Code
Reflections on six weeks on the Max plan
Learning Innovation
Three types of tough crowd
"Tough crowd."
You've heard someone say this after a gig, a presentation, a workshop. But there&
Howard's Riffs
A Quiet Way to Know Someone
On receiving a book someone's already read
Newsletter
Groove Theory #17 - Directing Robert Pattinson by Text Message
A rush-hour subway, a hidden camera, and commuters who had no idea they were extras
Now
Now - 30 Dec 2025
Star date: 30 Dec 2025.
* Having my mind blown by the capabilities of Claude Code running on Opus 4.5
Creative Business
How to run a retrospective that actually works
Six months after a project you can barely remember what you learned. Here's a one-hour framework that fixes that - using conversation, transcription, and AI to capture the insights that usually vanish.
Newsletter
Groove Theory #16 - The Beautiful Map Nobody Wanted
What Massimo Vignelli learned when elegance wasn't enough
Learning Innovation
Mike Tyson and the accidental punch
The other week I dropped a Mike Tyson quote into a session on adaptive leadership. Didn't think much
Learning, Education & Growth
The thing about teaching A.I. skills
Why most people have it backwards
Future Of Work
The new company department? Storytelling
Notion merged their internal comms, external comms, social, and influencer teams into one. They're calling it the Storytelling
Creative Business
Christian Bale kept training for a role he didn't have
Christian Bale got fired from American Psycho, and responded by... continuing to prepare for it.
Director Mary Harron wanted him,
Newsletter
Groove Theory #15 - The woman who built The French Laundry (before it was The French Laundry)
Sally Schmitt was doing farm-to-table in 1978. Nobody got it.
Learning, Education & Growth
Checkin' Chess at WSJ Doha
Pawn to c3. Knight to f6. Andrew Beaton’s playing chess on stage at WSJ Tech Live in Doha -
Howard's Riffs
Same book, different you
Why it matters to play it again
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