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,
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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
Newsletter
Groove Theory #14 - Jmail
Two developers rebuilt the Epstein files as Gmail. Here's why it worked.
Creative Business
Tempo, not Intensity
What fabric's resident DJ can teach the rest of us about experience design
Newsletter
Groove Theory #13: West on 27th
How two DJs with opposite approaches convinced NYC to trust their groove - and what small teams can learn from it.
A.I.
What Ableton taught us about AI and the future of coding
In 2001, Ableton turned bedroom producers into festival headliners. Now vibe coding is doing the same for software. The parallels run deeper than you'd think.
Newsletter
Groove Theory #12 - The Maze Maker
How a French TV producer mastered the barely possible
Newsletter
Groove Theory #11 - The One-Inch Picture Frame
When the whole thing feels too big, make it smaller than you think.
Learning, Education & Growth
Worksheets and Worksheets
Dealing with the tension of using physical and digital assets in learning environments
Learning, Education & Growth
How Nintendo taught 40 million people without a manual
It’s 1985. Nintendo is either about to save the gaming industry or disappear. Everything depends on getting one thing
Culture & Insights
33/45?: Carl Craig's cross-scene connections
For months, two South London DJs had been playing a Detroit music producer’s track at the wrong speed -
