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Craig Mod
@craigmod.com
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Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years. Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!! shop.specialprojects.jp craigmod.com
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Mar 28
Mega Book Launch National USA Super Tour 2025 for "Things Become Other Things" starts on May 5. See you out there?!

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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · 9d
Walking 200km of the Kiso-ji (back and forth) starting on Thursday; more deets and signup links here:

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Between Two Mountains — A New Pop-up Newsletter
Walking 200 km of the Kiso Valley
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Jean Snow @jeansnow.bsky.social · 9d
A new pop-up walk and newsletter from @craigmod.com is a reason to rejoice. https://mailbot2000.craigmod.com/h/r/3D7AC42BDB99659A2540EF23F30FEDED
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · 22d
"jumper"!! I didn't write "jumper" in my original english 😂
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Jean Snow @jeansnow.bsky.social · Sep 8
You can listen to all the conversations @craigmod.com did during his recent TBOT book tour as a podcast series -- I started with the Robin Sloan one, and it's really great. I've listened to 3 of them now, and they are all a bit different, due to the interviewer. craigmod.com/books/things...
Things Become a Podcast — 2025 TBOT Tour Conversations
A collection of conversations from Craig Mod's 2025 book tour for 'Things Become Other Things.' Recorded at independent bookstores across America, these chats explore: walking, writing, Japan, and the...
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Sep 7
these terrible, idiotic networks that enabled the idiocy — it turns out — perpetuate the idiocy, magnify the idiocy, multiply and entrench the idiocy
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Jared Cunha @jaredcunha.bsky.social · Sep 5
Really loved @craigmod.com’s Things Become Other Things. Beautifully-written along with a healthy dose of humor that somehow manages to sneak up on you.
The book Things Become Other Things on a side table. Next to it is a coaster with a Shiba Inu.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 30
holy crap, Adolescence was four very very very very very very intense hours of TV, good god (it was very good, too; esp episode 3, wow)
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W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social · Aug 29
The perils of Shibuya 2025 by @craigmod.com

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So, uh, I Walked Through Shibuya
A little walk across Tokyo thinking about just where this all goes
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la Vermeer @lavermeer.bsky.social · Aug 22
#Reading today: THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS by @craigmod.com. As the subtitle indicates, this text is a #walking #memoir, and so much more. Travel writing, personal essay, and cross-cultural storytelling. Stunningly beautiful—sip, don't gulp this one.
Cover of THINGS BECOME OTHER THINGS: A WALKING MEMOIR by Craig Mod. The cover shows a cloudy sky above tree-covered low mountains.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 25
seemed to be a different page before … but maybe it's been the same page?! Also, we're into our third printing so I think those might be from the first batch — collectables!
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Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Aug 24
Woke, meditated, coffee brought to me by my wife. More coffee on the porch, transported to pilgrimage routes in Japan via @craigmod.com's enthralling "Things Become Other Things". Yoga, a bike ride to a local bakery to pick up breakfast. Quick stop by my office to get some books.. A lovely morning..
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Leanne Wiberg @craterlady.bsky.social · Aug 20
I can confirm that the pain I experienced in childbirth cannot be compared to the pain accompanying the passing of a kidney stone. The latter was worse. This piece was a fun read.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 19
"real feel" of 43℃ in Tokyo right now; drink lots of water folks, don't get all kidney stoned like me

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Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa
Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 22
yikes, yeah, that seems to have happened to a few copies :(
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 20
"I swept away the everyday to make space for the profound, and my days refilled with everyday things."

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Frank Chimero · Time is On My Side
Frank Chimero’s Personal Website
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 19
"real feel" of 43℃ in Tokyo right now; drink lots of water folks, don't get all kidney stoned like me

craigmod.com/ridgeline/212/
Eating Linoleum in Karuizawa
Went looking for a peaceful walk, didn't find one
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 12
Dunking on Theo should be required for all stand ups
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 11
What did you do where did you go?
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 11
i don't think i've ever had one!
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 11
This sounds, for the first time in my life, amazing lol

Maybe I’ll make this happen in a couple weeks
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 11
I have a PA and shudder to think of all the important life stuff I wouldn’t be getting done without them (decision collapse)

And solo creative def comes with major decision fatigue overhead
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 11
i've reached a "decision saturation point" where I can't make any more decisions; each additional decision I'm asked to make is like pushing a wire under my fingernails; i've never reached quite this "intense" level of decision fatigue! please don't ask me where to have dinner tomorrow!!
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Jason Dettbarn @endonend.org · Aug 6
Finally finished. First physical book I’ve read in a long time and one of the best. Impactful in ways similar to Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist and The Pilgrimage. Highly recommended. (And take it slow like I did!)

Kudos to @craigmod.com
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 3
What a nice page showing you how to move your newsletter off substack: leavesubstack.com
You Should Probably Leave Substack
You should probably leave Substack. Here’s why and how.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 2
thank you! 🙏
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Alex Rainert @alexrainert.com · Aug 1
@craigmod.com Hey Craig! Long time no chat. Just wanted to let you know I just read through TBOT over the past week and I loved it. Thank you for sharing it.

Visiting Japan has always been tops on my list but I’ve been waiting till our kids are old enough to come along and that might be next year.
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Craig Mod @craigmod.com · Aug 1
"Take a moment to think about this. Each of us possesses a tangible, living soul. The System has no such thing. We must not allow The System to exploit us. We must not allow The System to take on a life of its own. The System did not make us: We made The System."

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Always on the side of the egg
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