How-To Guides
How the creator of 'Peaky Blinders' uses one word to unlock new worlds
Picture this: A working-class kid from Birmingham, youngest of 7, no silver spoon in sight. Fast forward, and he'
How-To Guides
Step-by-step playbooks to make things happen. Practical, actionable guides to help you solve problems, tackle projects, and create with confidence.
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.
Mindsets & Growth
Viva la voz
A more effective - and authentic - way to set up a meeting.
How-To Guides
Email Intros: The Double Opt-In (revisited)
How’s your inbox? Mine’s… ok. But a bunch of emails are festering. I don’t quite know what
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?
Learning, Education & Growth
From 100 Days to Lifelong Skills: How to Spark Engagement in Online Learning
10 Lessons from Replit’s “100 Days of Code" and Beyond
How-To Guides
The Blank Slide Shuffle
One morning, Scott Harrison, the CEO of Charity:Water, was giving a keynote speech. The auditorium was absolutely jammed. Everyone
How-To Guides
Two types of vouch
How do you discover talent, build connections, and develop trusted partnerships? You could spray and pray, but more likely you
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
Creative Business
The alternative advisory board
This felt pretty scary to email to a handful of people the other day: a request
for their time, expertise,
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
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
How-To Guides
How to transform a webinar
Let’s be honest. You’re probably sick of webinars by now.
And if you’re not sick of them
How-To Guides
How to introduce yourself
Like it or not, first impressions count.
Regardless of whether you’re running a workshop [http://www.wavetable.net/wc]
How-To Guides
How to calculate the time you need to create a workshop
Using time and magic to bring workshops to life
Time & Magik: The first video game I got hooked on
Resources
How to run a workshop for the C-suite
An underlying theme that comes up our Workshop Creator program is what I simply
call THE FEAR.
THE FEAR is