Howard's Riffs
If it's new to you, it's still new
In a quiet NYC coffee shop on July 4th weekend, the 90s electronic music playlist kicks in - along with the late afternoon cold brew
NYC
Journal
Swimming
Friday afternoon. Hot, sticky, NYC summer.
Early pickup. We hot footed across hot streets, eased past the lulling construction site.
Best of...
Making it in America: What international founders & creatives actually need to know
The cultural paradoxes, identity costs, and hidden rules nobody explains
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Step into the room where you're the amateur
What happens when you take your work into a room where you're clearly the least qualified person? I found out at a game developers' co-working space in NYC.
Mindsets & Growth
Why creative blocks don't solve themselves at your desk
In-person connection is 4,367 times more potent than Zoom. Yesterday reminded me why stepping away from screens matters.
Learning Innovation
Why great event design doesn't need to be complicated
Simple conversation cards and a glass of milk turned a networking event into an adventure worth remembering.
Creative Business
The punk path to landing Nike as a client
How two broke agency founders landed Nike by skirting the line between genius marketing and lawsuit-worthy audacity
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Dumbo Moving's marketing moves
How to stand out from the crowd and find big spending customers... at close to zero cost. Just add packing tape
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Monday night storytelling
You know that event you kept meaning to go to, then realise it’s 4 years later and you’ve
Future Of Work
Multiplayer games for career design
Could your career and skill set be accelerated through multiplayer games?
I reckon so.
The future of learning won’t
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5 tips for making it in NYC
If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere. True? Probably.
But how do you get
Reflections & Stories
Two Transmitters and a Telephone
Last hurrah. Baby due anytime now, so I ping a friend to see if he's up for some
In The Neighborhood
The new success
There used to be a cafe in the Lower East Side called El Rey. It was a tiny
place, with
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’
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
In The Neighborhood
Back to the coffee shop
The Big Apple.
Gleaming skyscrapers.
Grand Central. Wall Street. Times Square.
Bright lights. Big city.
Big business.
Big bucks.
But
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
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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