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Howard Gray

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Playtesting

Three Music Revolutions

Pressure is a Privilege - but not because it's rare

Groove Theory #24 - The Black Bean Sauce

The Right Bakery

Groove Theory #23 - Dance Like No One's Watching (Because They Aren't)

The Fork

Interconnected Agency

Saturday mornings

What A.I. quietly undoes

The Merchant's Stall

Madri: A Beer from Nowhere

Groove Theory #22 - A Narrow Corridor on La Rive Gauche

Your Other Language Skills

What Do You Do?

Piano for the Office

The Jetpack That Doesn't Work

The Garage

Chicken or Egg?

The Mistake Picnic

Taste the Soup

Three Big A.I. Bets - keynote

Groove Theory #22 - The Fourteen Hour Queue

Boredom created Bond

I'd love to work with you

The Sphere Wasn't Built for Rock Bands

The Sphere wasn't build for rock bands

Groove Theory #20 - The Little Green Arrow

Claude reaches for the Skills

So... what happens next?

(Untitled)

Don't Interrupt the Game

Futsal

Groove Theory #19 - Three Sets of Spiders and a Purple Foam Hand

The Meta Post

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