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.
Resources
Tools, templates, and things that might actually be useful.
Learning, Education & Growth
Worksheets and Worksheets
Dealing with the tension of using physical and digital assets in learning environments
Learning Innovation
Always do a run-through. No exceptions.
24 hours before our big workshop, we spotted a problem that could've killed the room. One case study had to go. Here's why the final check saved us from disaster.
Howard's Riffs
How on earth are people cranking out so much content?
Between client work, parenting, and trying not to lose the plot - when does all this 'content' actually happen?
Portfolio Career
Er... how are people keeping up with the content machine? No. Really.
Seriously—how do you stay creative, keep it flowing, and not lose your mind (or soul) to the algorithm?
Creative Business
Goodbye Google Slides. Hello, Figma
Death by Powerpoint? Perhaps ‘Death of Powerpoint’ is more apt. Because Figma just launched a slide design tool, and it’
How-To Guides
How to use Figma for building online courses
Over the last few months I’ve been using Figma as the design engine for building our new online course.
Independent Paths
The unspoken layoffs
The thing no one talks about when it comes to layoffs.
Creative Business
How to do Deeper Work
How to do more with less? Or rather, how can you create valuable work with less resources but also less burnout, stress and distractions?
Innovation
2024's acquisition of the year
The calendar unlock - and why it's another alarm bell for Google
A.I.
Gears turning: A.I. for 3D CAD design
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Most of the use cases we see for A.I. image generators relate to ‘content’
A.I.
Small wins with A.I. - filename fun
A.I. doesn’t need to be big and whizzy. Here’s a lovely example of how it can make
Creative Business
The bootleg Adidas ad
Here’s the new Adidas commercial. While it’s not the greatest advert I’ve ever seen, it was produced
Storytelling
Live at CMX Summit 2021
Here's the recording of the workshop I ran on storytelling at CMX Summit
[https://cmxhub.com/summit/] a
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
Learning Innovation
8 shifts in the future of learning & education
Over the past few weeks (ok, months) I’ve been working on a big article on how
fitness and learning
How-To Guides
How to find portfolio/audience fit
You’ve probably heard of Product/Market Fit. It’s widely seen as the holy grail
for just about every
How-To Guides
How I do Morning Pages
The theme of my most recent newsletter was New Wine, Old Oak
[https://howardgray.substack.com/p/adventures-49-new-wine-old-oak];
encouraging readers