Tom Critchlow

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/...

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...

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...

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 ?

Having a lot of fun with Little Futures season 3 so far! littlefutures.substack.com/p/lf15-knowl...

What is the work of remembering? littlefutures.substack.com/p/rememberin...

Hoo boy this is good: tim.blog/2025/03/06/t...

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...

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...

Great writing www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-colors...

🥳

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...

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...

Beautiful youtu.be/aTDOFaAcEyc?...

This squareinchanthro.com/2025/03/18/b...

"Our innovations become trampolines for our desires" Lovely piece from Tina fakepixels.substack.com/p/jevons-par...

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

Amen maya.land/responses/20...

Very much into this vibe from @laurel.bsky.social pbsoftheinternet.org

Probably shouldn't. But....... Maybe?

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...

Look, @robinsloan.com is my friend, and I know I weight his thoughts heavily. But you have to read this essay about the conundrum LLMs present to the writers and humanists among us. So much to learn in here. www.robinsloan.com/lab/is-it-ok...

Love love love to see indie consultants yearnotes. Here's Gautam's one year on the road: www.snowbird.global/a-year-of-em...

"Know the wolves that hunt you. In time, they will be the dogs that bring your slippers." This is a balm.

Hold your own youtu.be/hOdFwiWpRoU?...

"The program exists for the goals, not the members" Quietly radical stuff from the inspiring @craigmod.com Here's to the next 6 years and 5+ books ❤️ craigmod.com/essays/membe...

this from Zapruder 🩶

Idly imagining that @genmon.fyi does a Kickstarter to sell off custom cursors for his loyal fans. Instead of a flag emoji you'd get a favicon for your website visible to others as you browse the site...

I have two things to share with you today. First, we're starting a publishing company. Second, I wrote a book about computing, which you can preorder starting today!

Robin Sloan on bluesky 😍 @robinsloan.com And what a banger of a link just shared in his newsletter. Of goblins and Christmas and AI and librarians (and the Internet of course) davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

Love this formulation of artist publishing: www.newsletter.anemone.studio/p/artist-pub...

🔵 — a website with raw hems, with patched seams, with gentle scars. a website that bares its history and tarnish with kind, crinkle-eyed wisdom — the sort of site that’s done time on jack stands in DIY garages, or beneath the needle of a tabletop sewing mach.... strange.website/2024-12-03

Catch-23 too catch, too furious

I love when talented people redesign their personal websites. This is a good one. henry.codes

"Dreams in progress" from @elan.bsky.social - love this thoughtful meditation on dream clients (and actually a nice overview of the current state of brands) Elan is the best. Go work with him offmenu.substack.com/p/dreams-in-...

Today seems as good a day as any to bump this: erinkissane.com/meta-in-myan...