Adventures #40: The Entertainers
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Five of this edition's themes in one
📝 Writing
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The Tension
Back to The Tension
In the embers of last year’s summer, I started a new podcast.
Unlike my first podcast series, Tickets
[https:
In The Neighborhood
The Dollar Bill and The Golf Ball
My brother came to visit from Amsterdam for a couple of weeks; first a trip to
SXSW, before a week
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How to design a workshop slide deck
We’ve probably all sat through classes, lectures, workshops, and courses where
we’ve encountered Death by Powerpoint.
Cluttered slides.
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The Workshop Stack
Here at Wavetable [http://www.wavetable.net] we’re very excited about the future
of learning.
We believe two of
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5 ways to run better remote workshops
Over the past few years, a new wave of collaboration tools have been a key
driver in the growth of
Adventures #39: Fame and the Metagame
An email digest from the desk of me - Howard.
Hello
Over the last 6 weeks I’ve been running the
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The Joy of 6
There’s much to learn from musical educators, and educational musicians.
The first pilot episode of Schoolhouse Rock
[https://schoolhouserock.
Adventures #38: All the pieces matter
Saturdays in the record store, circa 1999.
On a cold Monday evening in early January, I was in my kitchen
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4 Workshop Mindsets
Imagine you get asked to run a workshop.
How would you tackle it?
Perhaps you’re feeling really confident in
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The new alumni
Alumni:
> a graduate or former student of a specific school, college, or university.
For a very long time I
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“What do you mean, ‘a workshop’?”
For centuries the word ‘workshop’ simply referred to a place where goods were
manufactured or repaired. To begin with, these
Stage Left
Opening Credits
January signals the peak of Hollywood’s awards season.
It’s the time for recognition and credit: for the work
In The Neighborhood
Connecting with Art
There’s something about those few days before Christmas. The city has a softer
haze, time slows and moments are
Adventures #37: Finding the Lost Connections
Third Rail Coffee, East Village, NYCHi
Two days before Christmas, I walked into my local coffee shop. It was strangely
Coaching
Co-Founder Conflict: NFI?
I met up with my friend Gillian [https://www.linkedin.com/in/davisgillian]
yesterday.
Like me, she’s perhaps a
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Building the 10 key skills for 2020
We all know the world is changing quickly, and that we all need to build and
develop new skills to
NYC
Unlearnings from the improv class
This weekend I went to my first improv class in a little while.
Improv has been one of those things