Creative Business
Home Games
A touring DJ plays almost every night away from home. Andy C says the hardest gigs of his career were at his own club.
Howard Gray
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #33 - The Tour He Stopped Giving
A man bought a wreck in Spitalfields and spent twenty years taking it backwards - no electricity, no plumbing, no twentieth century. Why?
Culture & Insights
Avon & Stringer - hard enough, smart enough
Too commercial for the artists, too weird for the suits - and a line from The Wire that names the whole thing.
Learning Innovation
Teaching to Learn
The delivery is ten hours. The design took four people six months. Guess where the learning was.
Learning Innovation
Question Design
One subject added to every curriculum, from five-year-olds to chief executives. Mine would be questions.
Howard's Riffs
Tight But Polite
There are two people on a nightclub door and neither is on your side. Which is why the guy on the gate in Brooklyn threw me completely.
Learning Innovation
The Fortune Cookie Test
If your feedback would fit anyone, it's a fortune cookie. Six rules from a few weeks inside the research on feedback.
Creative Business
When everyone hates your best work
The people who made Walk This Way thought it was rubbish. Somebody had to be certain anyway - and outside music, that job has no name.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #32 - The Hum They Took Out
She played every character on Argentina's Friday night comedy show. Then she left to make a record, and a very good producer took the strangest thing out of it.
Mindsets & Growth
Why Me?
When someone introduces me to a new contact, I ask them why they thought of me. The answers are rarely what I'd have guessed.
Learning Innovation
Cereal Is a Soup
A professor told me her students weren't checking whether their evidence held up. So we turned a librarian's checklist into a game, and gave it a research intern who can't tell gold from junk.
A.I
120 Questions With Correct Answers
Mexico's most prestigious university has cancelled around 3,000 entrance exams over suspected AI cheating. Everyone's arguing about the detection. I'd look at the exam.
Now
Now - 4 Aug 2026
Star date: 4 Aug 2026.
* Building a suite of playable business case studies - rondo.wavetable.net/play
* Enjoying summer holidays
Creative Business
Utah to Vegas, via Norway
How one of the world's biggest bands got their first international gig: a tourist, a CD, and a festival in Norway.
Creative Business
Thirty Years of Hating Television
David Chase spent almost thirty years in network television wanting to be somewhere else. Then, at 53, he made The Sopranos.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #31 - Joker Poker
Five million copies. Nominated for Game of the Year. Built by refusing to look at anyone else.
Learning Innovation
Just in Time Experience Design
The seven months weren't wasted. Leaving it seven months before showing anyone was.
Learning Innovation
The Game
You can't tell people to pretend something is real. Something in the design has to make them forget to ask.
books,now,hash-timeline,hash-gallery