Culture & Insights
Several Futures
A scenario isn't a prediction. It's a coherent mini-world you can ask questions of. That's how you stay ready when many futures are possible.
A.I.
Making sense of AI - what's useful, what's hype, and what it means for creative work.
A.I.
The A.I. Bridge
What if the middle aren't so squeezed, after all?
A.I.
The Fork
The gap between AI-native and everyone else is widening. I'm not sure anyone knows how to close it.
Howard's Riffs
Interconnected Agency
Agency is a real word. It means something - or it used to. And now Silicon Valley has it.
A.I.
What A.I. quietly undoes
A.I. doesn't replace collaboration - it makes it optional. And optional things have a way of disappearing.
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.
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
Learning, Education & Growth
The thing about teaching A.I. skills
Why most people have it backwards
Creative Business
Tempo, not Intensity
What fabric's resident DJ can teach the rest of us about experience design