Learning, Education & Growth
The thing about teaching A.I. skills
Why most people have it backwards
Teaching
What I've learned from classrooms, workshops, and hundreds of sessions about how people actually learn.
Learning, Education & Growth
What if business school taught you the wrong skill?
Taylor sent 2,000 applications in six months with her MBA. She can dissect any case study. But the job market needs people who can decide under pressure, not study someone else's choice from 1987.
Howard's Riffs
Is it Sivers? Because this is just one of many options
Derek Sivers once had a voice teacher who made him sing the same song as if it was 4am and
Learning Innovation
The case for all-age everything: lessons from PBS Kids
I'm shopping for my 4-year-old and keep thinking "I wish they made that in Dad size."
Future Of Work
Two Pilates studios - and the great capability divide
One teaches craft, one delivers product. In an AI-driven world, the gap between human expertise and scalable systems is widening fast.
Learning Innovation
Why Learning Beats Education (and Why It Matters to You)
Education mandates; learning invites. Discover the key differences and why flipping education into learning unlocks serious growth and fun.
Creative Business
Steve Albini's letter to Nirvana (No business lessons required)
The legendary producer who died this week wrote one of the best professional letters ever. You'll see why without me explaining it.
Portfolio Career
Full Stackers
I've long believed in the value of cultivating "Lowercase Skills" - being a an uppercase Strategist
Learning Innovation
Four flashes of insight: a catalyst for my teaching work
And why it's worth telling those people who impacted you most.
Freelancing
Teaching. Denied.
I recently applied to do some adjunct teaching. I like teaching. I’ve done a lot of it, and have
Portfolio Career
The keynote speaking grapevine
Notes on format innovation, how to get an agent, and experience design
A lot of people want to do more
Best of...
Fitness and Education: from IRL to URL
8 lessons for the new era of learning
Give your social media timelines a cursory scroll and it probably won’
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 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
Storytelling
7 podcast hosting lessons
The last few weeks have been filled with writing scripts, relearning software,
and rigging up soundproofing materials.
It’s podcast
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
The Rough Edges
The photographer who infuses their biology degree into the art.
The fashion stylist who spent time as a national-level rower.
Entrepreneurial Endeavours
Life’s a Pitch...but for who?
Over the last few months, I’ve been working with nearly two dozen founders from
across the spectrum of New
The Tension
The Tension: Natural / Rounded
Lessons from a New York institution: Astor Place Hairstylists.
Listen now: Anchor [https://anchor.fm/the-tension] |Spotify
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