A.I
The Thick of A.I.
Introducing Malcolm, my new editor
A.I
Making sense of AI - what's useful, what's hype, and what it means for creative work.
Learning Innovation
Voiceover for 20,000 people
Reflections on how to write for a global audience
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
The A.I. Bridge
What if the middle aren't so squeezed, after all?
Best of...
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.
Best of...
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.
Best of...
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
My A.I stack - February, 2026
Tools come and go. Here's where I've landed on the AI stack - for now.
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.
Howard's Riffs
Notes on Claude Code
Reflections on six weeks on the Max plan
Learning, Education & Growth
The thing about teaching A.I. skills
Why most people have it backwards
Creative Business
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.
Future Of Work
Why is no one talking about the job thing...?
Err, can we talk about the job thing? Y’know, the thing no one’s talking about? Brushing under the