Update: We’re live! Subscribe to our podcast here [https://twobeers.orbital.nyc/]! Thanks to everyone who came out to our launch party [https://m.orbital.nyc/thank-you-ede182b54ad8]! TL;DR: Last February, I made a viral tweet [https://twitter.com/garychou/status/1098391875143299073], which

> The hard part about making things with humans is humans. — Gary Chou (@garychou) April 2, 2019 [https://twitter.com/garychou/status/1113088979694489600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Essentially, this is why Orbital Studios exists.Last week, we wrapped up our 8th cycle of Orbital Studios

How to check-in with your friends, colleagues (and yourself) Selected slides (published with consent) from a subset of our members’ collective 2019 State of the Orbital talks. Thanks to our speakers for sharing updates: Archie Archambault, Katie Smillie, Michael Grinich, Bailey Richardson, Ida Benedetto,

Join us for Teach the 1K [http://teachthe1k.com/], a free one-day workshop for entrepreneurship educators and activators on February 8th, 2019 in New York City. Over the past 5+ years, Christina Xu [http://christinaxu.org/] and I have taught Entrepreneurial Design [https://postindustrialdesign.

Last month, I had the pleasure of returning to San Francisco to give a talk at Bond [http://bond.backerkit.com/], a conference examining “how creators make a living through the internet”. This was a particularly special talk for me, as I unintentionally ghosted

Lessons Learned from the $1K Challenge We’re in the final weeks of Entrepreneurial Design 2018 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/19Zlq4nQ5BgR-dkOKGqLua7fLkblcLksCNeHnJPkQlvQ/edit] , and with the $1,000 Challenge [https://medium.com/@garychou/1-000-projects-from-our-2018-entrepreneurial-design-class-6a241e59942a] now complete, the learning [http://blog.tonyhschu.ca/post/

In 2016, over 150 Designers, Product Managers and Engineering Managers from 50+ NYC companies joined a Community of Practice [http://orbital.nyc/communities-of-practice] at Orbital to share stories, challenges and lessons with each other. When your job is fundamentally about navigating uncertainty — whether it’

On the one hand, it’s crazy that I haven’t blogged in almost a year [http://blog.garychou.com/post/126917792257/scaling-caring-through-networks], but on the other hand it’s not. Last Fall began a process of re-evaluating everything and putting in place a

On May 13, I gave the closing keynote at the The Graduate Show: The MFA Interaction Design 2015 Thesis Festival [http://www.festival.interactiondesign.sva.edu/] at the School of Visual Arts. The event is a platform for the graduates to present their master’

When you’re launching an idea, one of the best things you can do for yourself is introduce constraints. Constraints can be anything: a fixed time frame (“launch in a week”), a finite set of tools/resources (“writing code vs. using what already exists”

There are a plenty of places to help you develop your startup idea or product, but not a lot of places to help you navigate the initial creative process when you are just getting off the ground. That’s what Orbital Boot Camp [http:

In the age of the networks, I believe the first step for a creator should be to assess their own self-sufficiency. This could mean a wide range of things, but for most, the focus is financial sustainability. What is the economic model that enables