A.I.
Piano for the Office
In 1906, typing was marketed to women as "piano for the office." Safe. Respectable. Those same roles are now most exposed to AI automation.
A.I.
Making sense of AI - what's useful, what's hype, and what it means for creative work.
A.I.
Taste the Soup
In 'Ratatouille', anyone can cook - but a great chef has to taste the soup. This applies to AI too. The skill now is judgment, not production.
A.I.
Three Big A.I. Bets - keynote
A 25-minute talk on the three bets every services business is already making - whether they've named them or not. Talent, model, positioning. Recorded in Paris.
A.I.
Claude reaches for the Skills
A small shift - seemingly
A.I.
So... what happens next?
Don't ask the AI boosters. Or the doomers. Can someone else help me understand?
Howard's Riffs
The Meta Post
What Claude Code saw after reviewing dozens of my blog posts. TL;DR: A lot.
A.I.
My A.I stack - February, 2026
Tools come and go. Here's where I've landed on the AI stack - for now.
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.
A.I.
Notes on Claude Code
Reflections on six weeks on the Max plan
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.
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
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,
Howard's Riffs
Same book, different you
Why it matters to play it again
Creative Business
Tempo, not Intensity
What fabric's resident DJ can teach the rest of us about experience design
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.