Tom Critchlow
@tomcritchlow.com
Indie consultant & blogger tomcritchlow.com
As of this weekend, I've been based in Vancouver, BC for a year. To celebrate, I wrote a newsletter about @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social's THE PACIFIC CIRCUIT, having a garden, and some of the things I've been up to this past while: buttondown.com/metafoundry/...
determinate tomatoes
on cities, matter, energy, roots, and dragonflies
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This is a remarkable essay from @tomcritchlow.com on the confusion and pace of change in the tech, media, and marketing worlds right now. (For Tom and me, those are actually one world; you can't understand one without the others.) newsletter.brxnd.ai/p/an-almanac...
An Almanac for the Age of Chaos // BRXND Dispatch vol 126
On marketing’s three-body problem: how to navigate when customers, channels and craft are all changing at once
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Tap tap. How's the sky-verse going these days? Still vibing?
I've finally realized why blogging is so important for me. It's because I believe people should have a way to use creative expression to find their people newsletter.tomcritchlow.com/archive/taki...
Taking Blogging Seriously
It's a warm summer night in NYC and I'm walking through central park with a friend, the fireflies blink around us like an external reflection of the neurons...
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I've seen folks hacking the remarkable... Wonder if it's possible to have a document that shows annotations from two users. Maybe the doc syncs nightly or something, with different users showing up as different colors ?
Hoo boy this is good: tim.blog/2025/03/06/t...
Terry Real - Breaking the Rules of Traditional Couples Therapy for Superior Results, A Few Frameworks That Work (#798) - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
I’m featuring five chapters from the audiobook Fierce Intimacy by Terry Real. What you will hear in this episode will help you identify both your and your partner’s losing strategies in relationships,...
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Little Futures - delightful provocations about the future from @itsbdell.bsky.social and me - is back for season 3! The latest: Family Futures littlefutures.substack.com/p/lf13-famil...
LF:13 Family Futures
Family-scale Networks & Network-scale Families
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One thing wrong with Google's AI overviews: they've shipped the UX from an academic paper! Excerpt from my conversation with @tomcritchlow.com
Little Futures (a series of provocations and inquiries into futures) is coming back for season 3! Written by me and @itsbdell.bsky.social look out for the first issue next week: littlefutures.substack.com/p/little-fut...
Little Futures Season 3
Before the Big Future, endless little futures
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Boris@bmann.ca · last yr.Yeah, Emily did the initial write up a long time ago, there are a handful of "add this JS script from a CDN" Here's a Github search that surfaced a couple github.com/search?q=blu... I'll cherry pick @coryzue.com github.com/czue/bluesky... and @tom.party github.com/tomcreighton...
So commento has finally given up the ghost. Anyone built bluesky comments in a box yet? Ideally something like this I can just drop into my site: graysky.app/blog/2024-02...
Adding comments to this blog - Graysky
5 February 2024 - by @mozzius.dev
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Is Google slurping up all the pirated content for llm training too or did they Gemini 2.5 "legit"? Do we know or are we just assuming they're all doing the same sketchy things?
What's the best designed buttondown newsletter? Looking for inspiration to relaunch my personal newsletter....
A proposal and a prototype for (a better) future of search: tomcritchlow.com/2025/03/21/b...
Google is Grounded and Needs to Learn How to Soar
A short proposal for the future of search
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"Our innovations become trampolines for our desires" Lovely piece from Tina fakepixels.substack.com/p/jevons-par...
Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
What if the most game-optimal play in the new system is actually to become relentlessly, unapologetically you?
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Hordes of people listlessly roaming the flat planes of our networks trying to shake sensemaking out of random posters like ducklings who imprinted on a woodchipper
Very much into this vibe from @laurel.bsky.social pbsoftheinternet.org
PBS of the Internet
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Quoteback PSA 🚨 Yesterday Chrome disabled Quotebacks for a lot of people. I need to rewrite the extension to be V3 compatible but in the meantime... (embeds still work fine) So long as your Quoteback extension is disabled, not removed you should be able to recover your saved items. Instructions:
still grateful for rss — even in 2025, a great way to read a bunch of crap by cranky old bloggers!
A staggering work of blogging genius... Begins with reps, reps, reps. I was curious how John Cutler got started writing online and went back in the archives. Only to discover that he wrote 423 blog posts before he even started his substack A Beautiful Mess... Always be writing...
Love this talk from Aaron. Makes me think more deeply about the promise of the web and the challenges it has in helping you revisit things... www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/...
it's not magic – finding our way back to 'just f*cking do it' from 'move fast and break things'
As a general rule plywood and two-by-fours are the structural underpinnings of nearly everything in the built environment no matter how posh, luxurious or expensive the surface trappings. In that same...
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