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Howard Gray

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The Return of Oral Culture

My A.I stack - February, 2026

It’s not their fault

There is no Goose

Groove Theory #18 - Does Grand Theft Auto’s sewer system go anywhere?

Notes on Claude Code

Three types of tough crowd

A Quiet Way to Know Someone

Groove Theory #17 - Directing Robert Pattinson by Text Message

Now - 30 Dec 2025

How to run a retrospective that actually works

Mike Tyson and the accidental punch

Groove Theory #16 - The Beautiful Map Nobody Wanted

The thing about teaching A.I. skills

The new company department? Storytelling

Christian Bale kept training for a role he didn't have

Groove Theory #15 - The woman who built The French Laundry (before it was The French Laundry)

Checkin' Chess at WSJ Doha

Same book, different you

Groove Theory #14 - Jmail

Tempo, not Intensity

Groove Theory #13: West on 27th

What Ableton taught us about AI and the future of coding

Groove Theory #12 - The Maze Maker

Groove Theory #11 - The One-Inch Picture Frame

Worksheets and Worksheets

How Nintendo taught 40 million people without a manual

33/45?: Carl Craig's cross-scene connections

Movie bets: Judge by the peak

When Malcolm Gladwell found Dr. Dre's Empty Chair

Groove Theory #10 - When your song becomes someone else's

When Guatemala invented the Happy Meal

What if business school taught you the wrong skill?

Groove Theory #9 - Dishoom’s Main Character Energy

What I've learned from evaluating 1000+ SXSW proposals

Is it Sivers? Because this is just one of many options

Groove Theory #8 - Three Timetables and a Microphone

Groove Theory #7 - Hedonistic Sustainability

Groove Theory #6 - The One Person Orchestra

The Playground Inspector

Groove Theory #5 - The One Level Up Principle

The 30-year-old track that became a digital confessional

Why is no one talking about the job thing...?

Groove Theory #4 - Nothing Business

The truck stop where Led Zeppelin, The Who, and Hendrix met

If it's new to you, it's still new

Meet the person you could have been: What a $150B CEO does on weekends

The hidden layer in Spotify's CTO's take on AI vs. machine learning

The $2.5M Decision That Changed Everything

Swimming