Creative Business
The Right Wrong Fix
Brian De Palma got notes to cut a scene. He did the opposite. The studio thanked him for making it shorter.
📝 Writing
This is where most of the writing lives. 650+ posts since 2016 - some about learning and creative work, some about whatever I couldn't let go of that week. A restaurant that changed fine dining, a Nintendo executive who saved the company, a Gmail interface for leaked documents...
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.
Howard's Riffs
The tricky bit about LinkedIn riffing
Stuck in the middle. With you?
Culture & Insights
Most Podcasts Just... End. Why?
Podcasts intend to inform, inspire, educate - but most skip one essential element.
A.I.
The A.I. Bridge
What if the middle aren't so squeezed, after all?
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #25 - The Woman with the Moog
How Kubrick's composer made a million-selling album - one note at a time.
Learning Innovation
The Inside Intro
How to get buy-in during any workshop or live session
Best of...
How to open a Primary School
A commodities trader wanted to open primary schools in forgotten coastal towns. He bought a football club instead. Here's what happened next.
Howard's Riffs
Playtesting
What I learned at the fringe bit of London Games Festival.
Culture & Insights
Three Music Revolutions
And why true innovations are surprisingly rare
Howard's Riffs
Pressure is a Privilege - but not because it's rare
Tom Hiddleston says pressure is breathing rare air. He's right - kinda.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #24 - The Black Bean Sauce
When a Michelin-starred chef went back to school in a tent camp - and built something that's fed 130 million people
Creative Business
The Right Bakery
In France's most prestigious bread competition, the winners keep coming from somewhere unexpected.
Groove Theory
Groove Theory #23 - Dance Like No One's Watching (Because They Aren't)
A breakup, a car park, and what happens when you stop waiting to be good enough
A.I.
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.
Howard's Riffs
Saturday mornings
The loop that builds senior judgment is closing. The institutions can't move fast enough. So what happens in the gaps?