tomcritchlow.com
Tom Critchlow. Move. Think. Create.
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- 223 from 12 Apr 2012 to 8 Jun 2026
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2026 1
2025 3
2024 13
- 3,573 Days On The Road
- Working With Founders Who Have Conviction and Taste
- LinkedIn is not a social or professional network, it's a learning network
- A Lil' Website Refresh
- Work is a Place
- How do You Cultivate Customer-Centric Executives?
- (Another) Quick Riff on Narrative Strategy
- Notes on my Remarkable Tablet
- Notes on Search and AI
- Don’t Give Advice, Be Useful
- Manifesting My Dream Clients & Projects for 2024
- Narrative Aircover & Compound Narrative
- 9 Years on the Road
2023 9
2022 25
- 8 Years on the Road
- What are Executive Off-Sites Good For?
- Slouching Towards Innovation
- Generating Agency Through Blogging
- Bezier Butts
- Some Notes on Agency at Work
- Rejecting Specialization
- A Podia Wishlist
- A map for indie living
- Subterranean Blogging
- Blogging Streaks & Freaks
- Reflecting on things I failed to get done at Google
- Some Notes on Executive Dashboards
- Triple Entry Blogging
- Increasing the surface area of blogging
- Blogging in Service of Publics
- Notes on teaching & chairs
- Notes on a Blogging Accelerator
- Narrative Logs
- Holding (and scrolling) attention
- Building a Digital Homestead, Bit by Brick
- Electric Tables V0.2
- Electric Tables V0.1
- Quotebacks V1.1.4
- January 2022 - Map of Inquiry
2021 11
- Thinking in Public with the Leaders of Consulting Podcast
- Talking Buy-in and Budget with Ross at Siege Media
- Chatting Consulting with Andi Jarvis on the Eximo Podcast
- 7 Years on the Road
- The Jigsaw of Independence
- Digital Victories Podcast Episode
- Notes on an Open Scraping Database
- Reimagining the Research Lab
- The Consultant Out of Time
- The Coming Era of Tokenized Essays
- Why can't I write code inside my browser?
2020 41
- Filtered for... margin notes
- Weak Ties & Strong Intros
- A Letter to Arnold
- 6 Years on the Road
- The Economic Power of Real-time Chat Spaces
- Podcasts with Offline Rocks & Hundreds of Ways
- Further thoughts about GoodReads & the web books ecosystem
- Filtered for... inquiry vs insight
- The Contrary Consultant
- What makes a good "hire me" page?
- Generating an alumni network for indies
- re: More experiments with video calls, and what slides are for
- Updates to Quotebacks
- The Indie Consulting Business Model Canvas V0.1
- Some notes on Thinking in Public
- Opening up in Open Spaces
- Setting up a Discord Room for my Blog
- Quotebacks for Firefox is here!
- Can Calendly Unbundle NYC?
- Navigating Power & Status
- disaster!
- Exploring ScrollToTextFragment
- Introducing: Quotebacks
- Sparring & Tenure for Indie Consultants
- Filtered for... writing inside organizations
- Filtered for... the design of virtual spaces
- Filtered for... Play
- A Good Looking Tiddly Theme for Digital Gardens
- The Challenges of Remote Consulting
- Collective Narratives & Sensemaking in Uncertainty
- TiddlyBlink on Glitch
- Library JSON - A Proposal for a Decentralized Goodreads
- After Peacetime
- The Quarantined Independent
- Tap tap test
- Of Blogs and Beacons
- My Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon Reccs
- Announcing- The Bandcamp Blogging Bandwagon
- New Blogging 3 - Blog Patterns
- Narrative Strategy
- Building an ebook version of Journey to the End of the Night for Erin
2019 36
- Blocking & Unblocking Clients
- Optimism as an Operating System
- Yes! And...
- Fellow travellers on the road
- Webmention believers...
- A blog tour
- Testing Webmentions
- New Blogging 2 - Open Blogchains
- 5 years on the road
- Understanding Marketing Realities
- Occult Ads
- Consulting Success Podcast
- Sweathead Podcast Appearance
- Workshops as Portals
- Networked Communities 3 - Sidewalk Spaces and Positive Gatekeeping
- Networked Communities 2 - Blogging as a Social Act
- Networked Communities 1 - Weaving a public web, or, why don’t I blog more?
- Space for Creativity
- S, M, L 1 - Wither Substack
- New Blogging 1 - Building Blogchains
- Help me write my book by annotating the outline
- The One Page Strategy Canvas
- How (and why) to roll your own frameworks in consulting engagements
- Using Bookmarklets to Script Static Sites
- Planting new varietals in my digital garden
- Blood In the Feed
- Integrating Annotations into a Static Blog
- Blogpunk
- Ditching Hourly Podcast Appearance
- The Strategic Independent
- Magical Mystery Mix
- Strange Attraction
- I, consultant?
- Building a digital garden
- Exploring the UX of web-annotations
- Weird Work
2018 27
- Ways of Seeing
- Four Years on the Road
- Who do I know in the kids book publishing world?
- Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens
- Narrative spaces
- For the love of maps
- The power of labels
- For the record blogging
- How to make AMP stories using Jekyll and Github Pages
- The Practice of Media Design
- Re-booting the Malcontents Podcast and Looking for Feedback
- High Fidelity Consulting
- Community Economics & A Kitty-Turtle Hybrid
- Strategy and stewardship
- PDF Aesthetics
- Thank you Seth
- How to get things done
- Some good links
- Atemporality of the Corporation
- Strategy is the organic flow of ideas and people
- Talking getting things done with Ross Hudgens & Corey Eulas
- Talking consulting on the Boundless podcast
- Small b blogging
- The Malcontents Episode 4 & 5
- In the land of hierarchy, the networked individual is king
- Who gives a shit about your content?
- Experiments in Networked Writing
2017 19
- Talking about careers
- Decentralized Revenue
- The Malcontents Episode 3
- The Malcontents Episode 2
- A few notes on blogging & independent feeds
- The Malcontents
- Intimate Marketing
- Privacy Glitch
- Three years on the road
- Algorithmic text is exciting
- How do you measure good content?
- 00ff00
- The Consultant's Grain
- Branding in the age of Content
- The Beginner's Guide to Community Building
- Context Collapse, Brands & Content
- The State of Content
- Some Interesting Media Strategy Jobs
- The Importance of Launching
2016 18
- Some Interesting Agencies
- A fieldguide for independent strategy consultants
- Every Blog Takes a Village
- Informal breakfast 2
- On Conferences
- Starting an informal breakfast thing
- Two years on the road
- Indie Blogging & Distribution
- Where will the next Twitter come from?
- Death of the Industrial Advertising Complex
- A Day In the Consultant's Life
- Intentional Communities
- Blogging, Not Blogging
- Why I've decided not to launch a brand for my consulting work
- An alternative to the bullshit industrial complex
- Using Facebook Messenger as a Free Intercom Replacement
- Intermodal Media
- What does it mean to build a marketing team for your startup?
2015 13
- In The Future We Will All Fall Madly in Love With Our Toasters
- You're Not Blogging, My Friend.
- A Meander Into Architecture
- Google Photos for Work
- Poetry & Markdown for What?
- Mediated Maps & Digital Blind Spots
- How to use Google Slides as a free cloud-hosted illustrator replacement
- Decentralized Brands & The Future of Content Marketing
- Links April 9th
- Links March 24th
- Blog For The Young Things
- Back to Blogging
- Links Jan 26th