Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa — Ridgeline issue 212
Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one| Craig Mod
Ridgeline subscribers — A few nights ago, on a lark, Sam Holden — public bath and Onomichi specialist, urbanist and translator — and I, amidst a post-dinner stroll through Tokyo, decided to “walk through Shibuya.” I try with all my might to avoid Shibuya as one might avoid french-kissing a running blender (or scraping a kidney stone along one’s ureter). At best, I’ll skirt the edges, but I’m always happy to take a more circuitous train or walking route simply to avoid the stat...| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one| Craig Mod
Ridgeline subscribers — Some six and a half years ago I wrote the first Ridgeline sitting on the second floor of my Kamakura studio. I had been living there for two years by then, and the place had already subtly and not so subtly changed my life in so many ways, that I get a bit woozy just thinking about it. I moved down here (a quick, single, forty-five-minute train ride south) eight and a half years ago not because I had gotten a sick of Tokyo, or felt a compressed by it, but simply that...| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Summer Heatray Days — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Why being popular is not the goal of most small businesses| Craig Mod
A Wonderful Book Tour Concludes — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Notes on going on the Rich Roll podcast in LA in May, 2025| Craig Mod
Roden Readers — Hello from the halfway mark of the Things Become Other Things mega-tour! Though it’s only been about three weeks since arriving in the States, it feels like I’ve been on the road for about seven years. I’ve done events at: Rizzoli (NYC), Notion (NYC), Politics & Prose (D.C.), Booksmith (S.F.), Microsoft (Seattle), and Third Place Books (Seattle). In the parlance of depressing tech company performance reviews: They’ve all EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — Howdy from the Things Become Other Things MegaTour, USA, where I’m on planes, trains, and self-driving automobiles as I make my way back and forth across this flawed and beautiful continent, talking, talking, signing, and stamping things. I’m doing a little walking; I walked around the Botanical gardens in SF, and walked on the Wharf, and took big walks up and down Manhattan but, honestly, I’ve been trying my best to listen to my body and my body has been sayin...| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — That’s Things Become Other Things, up in the window of what is — IMHO — one of the greatest bookstores in the world. I think it’s worth taking a beat to note why the store feels so good and, ultimately, how deceptively simple the ingredients of that goodness are. The store in question is Three Lives & Company. It’s a great name. In a great little neighborhood (the West Village (Manhattan)) which puts it off to a great start.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Things. Become. Other. Things. — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Ridgeline subscribers — Hello! Many of you are new subs from Tim-san and our pod recordings last month. I’m Craig Mod and this is Ridgeline, a newsletter ostensibly about walking, and ostensibly weekly, but recently, not so much. Life has been full. The last one of these I sent (last month) dove into the Walk and Talk I ran with Kevin Kelly in Spain in March. This one is simply a notice that my new book, Things Become Other Things, comes out from Random House in two days (Tuesday, May 6).| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Hark, a Book Appears! — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Notes on a fabulous walk of the last 100km of the French Camino| Craig Mod
Roden Readers — Hi hi hi from Madrid. This was the first city I visited abroad on a random near miraculous-seeming (now in hindsight) high school Spanish class trip some thirty years ago. That trip felt like a horse — one raised on churros and jamón — had kicked open the barn doors of my forehead. Walking Madrid: That was it. I was leaving America. Felt that in my bones. Where to, I didn’t know, but I was out.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Announcing a new Kii Peninsula photo book, some notes on places to stay in Yamaguchi| Craig Mod
Roden Readers — Hello from the train! I’m en route — once again — to KII PENINSULA which many of you know is where my book Things Become Other Things takes place. I’m going back to photograph PEOPLE. That’s the aim, anyway. We’ll see if I pull it off. You can follow along in real-ish time on my new pop-up: About a Nightingale. It starts today (Feb 23, and ends on March 4, and then I delete all your email addresses).| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Running a new, ten-day, pop-up newsletter starting Feb 23| Craig Mod
Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership| Craig Mod
Roden Readers — Me again (Craig Mod), back with another (short-ish?) Roden. Issue 100 of this thing! Started in December 2012, twelve years and change. Whoosh. So it goes. (Time.) In honor of this milestone, I dug up issue 001 and put it online. (Not quite as embarrassing as I expected.) Thank you to everyone who responded to the TBOT Book Tour Poll! VERY instructive / helpful. More on that, soon.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Six years of running SPECIAL PROJECTS. Here are my "rules" that guide the program.| Craig Mod
Sign up for Craig Mod's newsletter — Roden: A monthly missive about books, writing, photography, and walking.| Craig Mod
Walking Japan in a 10 city blip| Craig Mod
A weekly newsletter on walking, Japan, literature, and photography| Craig Mod
Roden Readers — Hello hello hello out there in this weird and terrible and beautiful world we inhabit, this world of wonder and sadness and extreme fartage of many kinds. I’m Craig Mod and this is Roden and it’s 2025. Below: SPECIAL PROJECTS 6th anniversary (!!), a book tour, notes on attention, a didactic rant on social media in 2025, and a plea for Not Bullshit. Book Tour I’m going on a BOOK TOUR in May / June 2025.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — Hello from amidst the Toyama rush of media requests. I’ve had to say no to most of them, mainly because I’ve been finishing the final final final final set of edits on the Random House edition of Things Become Other Thing. Those edits are in. The book can be pre-ordered from all the usual places. I’m running a pre-order campaign whereby if you forward your pre-order coupon to me, you get a $30 coupon (doesn’t expire) to use in the SPECIAL PROJECTS Shop.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — A new year, a new city. My pick for New York Times’ “52 Places to Go 2025” is Toyama City of Toyama Prefecture. It is placed at 30 on this year’s list (not that the list is a “ranking”!) and Osaka — with its forthcoming Expo — is placed at 38. I think that’s quite the interesting contrast of Japanese cities to highlight. Times picks aren’t entirely willy-nilly.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — I started the year by walking across a big chunk of Tokyo today. Ten kilometers. Not super far, but far enough to get you from almost any point to any other point within the Yamanote Line. For my 25 years of living in and around this city, if I’m in Tokyo on the January 1, I try to walk it (or in the past: bike it). The streets are mostly empty.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Ridgeline subscribers — I was confused, I was exhausted, I was operating on autopilot. But I was also having fun. I mean, this was to be expected. I was in Morioka to launch Kissa by Kissa’s Japanese edition and it was my tenth interview (!!) in two days (with ten more to follow) and it was sort of early (for me) and I had shoved all of these new Japanese phrases into my head in attempt to more clearly articulate why this or why that.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Roden Readers — Hello from very much the season of doing. Good lord. The end of the year. The shove-it-all-in sprint. The air is crisp and the runs are good and we’re still on the edge of t-shirt weather, despite it being December. This is Roden and I’m Craig Mod and boy am I behind in everything. Claim Your Pre-order Discount Let’s get to it. Today marks the official pre-order campaign launch for the Random House edition of Things Become Other Things.| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
Roden Readers — The first memory I have of Enrique Allen is from the campus of Stanford. He had just graduated from the d.school and was teaching part-time. We were about to start working together. He was all bounding lightness. That’s the first image: Jumping, huge bright smile, long black hair, wide open face, totally open heart. Bounding lightness. The lightness stood in contrast to his bigness as a human; not hefty, he was just a tall dude with the broadest of broad shoulders and a l...| Craig Mod — Writer + Photographer
An October walk and talk and a good few days in London| Craig Mod
I've been running the SPECIAL PROJECTS membership program for five years; here's what I know.| Craig Mod
Yamaguchi City is #3 on the New York Times Place to Visit 2024 list| Craig Mod
What Members Have to Say| Craig Mod
Goodnight 2023, What a Year, I love Antibiotics — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Kevin Kelly and my notes detailing everything we've learned walking and talking these past six years| Craig Mod
Essay on the benefits of speedy software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability| Craig Mod
Notes on my recent Walk and Talk with Kevin Kelly| Craig Mod
Newsletters!| Craig Mod
Tokyo Walk, TBOT Cover, Aloneness — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Let's walk all the way across Tokyo proper, from Chiba to Yamanashi| Craig Mod
Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Some notes on sandwiches and the English St. Bees to Robin Hood's Bay 300km Coast to Coast walk| Craig Mod
The Random House Book Deal — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Exploring the best jazz kissa of Tōhoku and Hokkaido| Craig Mod
Everything I've learned in the first four years of running a successful membership program| Craig Mod
The Morioka Experience — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
A new pop-up newsletter| Craig Mod
Archetypes Revisited — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Afro-Cuban Kissa by Kissa — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
Tips for taking care of yourself on a long walk| Craig Mod
Two week pop-up photography newsletter on the Kii Peninsula| Craig Mod
Books, Nukes, Books, Atoms, Books — Roden Newsletter Archive| craigmod.com
