A personal, reflective newsletter structured in acts, exploring creative slumps, feeling stuck, and finding belonging through art and optimism. Readers get short, lyrical essays with gentle encouragement about self-doubt, distraction and finding meaning.
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Personal essays on relationships, thinking, creativity and agency, written from a family life on a Baltic island. Readers get reflective, exploratory writing that works through questions such as why music moves us and how to get unstuck creatively.
A weekly newsletter that explains one mental model per issue through a detailed historical story, then ties it to creative work. Issues cover topics such as hostile attribution bias, design thinking and the Gestalt law of closure.
A fortnightly letter of personal essays on attention, creative persistence and the habits behind making things, drawing on the author's own records and on research. Readers get reflective, candid writing about reading, routines and sustaining long projects.
Howard Gray's Groove Theory tells in-depth stories about the overlooked, behind-the-scenes ways people and teams made creative work, and what readers can borrow from them. It is mixed with short links and updates on his own projects.
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