The Tension
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In 2010, a heavy metal kid suddenly took the dance music world by storm.
When Sonny Moore aka Skrillex broke
📝 Writing
This is where most of the writing lives. 650+ posts since 2016 - some about learning and creative work, some about whatever I couldn't let go of that week. A restaurant that changed fine dining, a Nintendo executive who saved the company, a Gmail interface for leaked documents...
Battle Scars
Do you remember your first 10?
Every business starts somewhere. There are very few that got off the ground with
hundreds or thousands of customers rather
The Tension
The Rust
On Sunday I recorded the first episode for a new podcast series I’m producing.
The guest was someone I
Stage Left
30 degree days
Stringer Bell doesn’t like 40 degree days. Except when it’s 30. Let alone 20.
For many of us,
In The Neighborhood
Prospect
So it was.
I woke up on Saturday feeling lethargic and slow; that half-pace off the weekday
cadence. I couldn’
Adventures #47: What's cookin'?
The Tension
Zenith & Nadir
When I was a talent agent, there’d be a couple of times a year where a client
would hit
Portfolio Career
Pareto in a pandemic
The theme of last month’s newsletter [https://howardgray.net/newsletter/] was
Dormant Ties. As the professor and author Herminia
Stage Left
The $15m unbranding
When Matthew McConnaughey decided to stop doing romantic comedies, he told his
agent, Jim Toth at CAA, to make sure
Mindsets & Growth
The flipped fortune cookie
> “What would you tell your younger self?”
It’s one of the most popular questions you’ll hear in
Resources
18 elements of the Zoom revolution (remix)
In the latest instalment of his ‘Akimbo’ podcast, Seth Godin switched it up.
On the surface, nothing was different.
As
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The Rough Edges
The photographer who infuses their biology degree into the art.
The fashion stylist who spent time as a national-level rower.
Mindsets & Growth
The cycles of alchemy
For the last 2 or 3 years I’ve become more interested in behavioural economics –
or rather, I’ve realised
Adventures #46: Resurfacing our dormant ties
Mindsets & Growth
Do you like dogs?
A few weeks ago, we went upstate for the weekend.
As you can imagine, the demand for places to stay
Adventures #45: Long-Haul
This trip is a triple header.
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
A slice of Saatchi
Here’s one way to get people talking about your brand – especially when you’re a
B2B services company.
Dubai’
Adventures #44: A different kind of range
The trouble with Generalists and Specialists