The Talk Show With John Gruber

312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod

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Craig Mod joins the show to talk about writing, designing, filmmaking, what makes for good software, and building a successful membership program to support independent art. And: pizza toast.

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    • Links:

    • Craig’s annual essays about running a subscription:

      • Year one.
    • Year two.

    • “Kissa by Kissa” — Craig’s book documenting, in words and photos, “walking 1,000+km of the countryside of Japan along the ancient Nakasendō highway, the culture of toast (toast!), and mid-twentieth century Japanese cafés called kissaten.”

    • “Pizza Toast & Coffee” — Craig’s new short film.

    • Craigstarter — Craig’s open source project to host your own Kickstarter-like projects.

    • Craig’s recent essay for Wired on the pleasure of programming, or as he calls it, “coding”.

    • “Fast Software, the Best Software” — Craig’s 2019 essay on the feel of software tools.

    • Kevin Kelly’s seminal “1,000 True Fans” essay.

    • Author Karl Ove Knausgård, who calls his editors each day to read that day’s work to them.

    • Software tools mentioned:

      • Ulyssses.
    • Final Cut Pro, which no longer has an “X”.
    • Lightroom Classic, the “Classic” part of which feels ominous.
    • Robin Sloan’s tweet deleting script.
    • Plausible Analytics.
    • Fathom Analytics.
    • fzf — Command-line fuzzy finder search tool.

      • This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.

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