Author: Mike Crittenden

My first half marathon! Trails hurt!

After 7 years and 80,000+ users, I’m starting to charge money for Shortkeys.

A list of some of my favorite conversation starters to get a team talking. Use them wisely!

After 10 months of reading 50 books totaling almost 17,000 pages, I wrapped up the 2019 PopSugar Reading Challenge.

After a month of trying to not be a lazy out of shape idiot, I ran a very slow 5K race and loved it.

I’ve read Getting Things Done twice now, once a few years back and once just this month. Here’s the 2 minute summary of what I’ve taken from it.

My quest to break my addiction to work chat.

I’ve spent the last few years trying to become a real life adult. Here’s a one page summary of what I’ve learned.

“What do you think, Critter?” The question that started it all. The multitasker’s worst enemy. I spend my work days on conference calls, and if I don’t have anything to say for a couple minutes, my mind wanders. Then, someone on the call says my name and I realize that I’ve done it again. I […]

DHH (of Basecamp and Ruby on Rails fame) said something on Tim Ferriss’s podcast last year that stuck with me: Finally, I’d say we employ the same tactic that we encourage everyone at the company to employ, which is to stop talking and start making. When we have disagreements about which way to go, just […]