Learning, Education & Growth
Worksheets and Worksheets
Dealing with the tension of using physical and digital assets in learning environments
đ Writing
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Learning, Education & Growth
How Nintendo taught 40 million people without a manual
Itâs 1985. Nintendo is either about to save the gaming industry or disappear. Everything depends on getting one thing
Culture & Insights
33/45?: Carl Craig's cross-scene connections
For months, two South London DJs had been playing a Detroit music producerâs track at the wrong speed -
Creative Business
Movie bets: Judge by the peak
The producer behind "The Social Network" ignores the flops and the recent work. He asks one question: what's the best thing you've ever seen them do?
Culture & Insights
When Malcolm Gladwell found Dr. Dre's Empty Chair
How to create the environment where people feel the appropriate emotions for any experience
Newsletter
Groove Theory #10 - When your song becomes someone else's
What Trent Reznor learned when he gave away his most personal work
Culture & Insights
When Guatemala invented the Happy Meal
One franchisee saw kids struggling with adult portions and created something smaller with a toy. McDonald's rolled it out worldwide.
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.
Newsletter
Groove Theory #9 - Dishoomâs Main Character Energy
Why the beloved brand is built more like a game than a restaurant.
How-To Guides
What I've learned from evaluating 1000+ SXSW proposals
Every year, I find myself deep in proposal evaluation mode. Fortune 100 CEOs, ambitious VPs, indie strategists, even actors and
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
Newsletter
Groove Theory #8 - Three Timetables and a Microphone
How two comedians created a fresh format that bends both art and time - and the underrated power of a heckler-partner
Newsletter
Groove Theory #7 - Hedonistic Sustainability
How architect Bjarke Ingels uses improv principles to turn constraints into competitive advantages
Newsletter
Groove Theory #6 - The One Person Orchestra
Tash Sultana builds entire concerts alone. Here's how rhythm becomes your operating system.
Howard's Riffs
The Playground Inspector
Permits filed, invoices paid. But the general contractor keeps showing up on Friday afternoons
Newsletter
Groove Theory #5 - The One Level Up Principle
How Josh Upton built a three-year community ritual - and why your next project might be hiding in plain sight.
Culture & Insights
The 30-year-old track that became a digital confessional
How a forgotten 1994 ambient track accidentally became one of the internet's most unlikely shared spaces
A.I.
Why is no one talking about the job thing...?
Err, can we talk about the job thing? Yâknow, the thing no oneâs talking about? Brushing under the