The Best of Craig Mod
8 most popular Craig Mod articles, as voted by our community.
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Craig Mod on Books
Craig Mod on Mindfulness
Craig Mod on Newsletters
Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters
On the rise of newsletter production, consumption, and monetization, and how email is one of the most powerful and resilient publishing platforms.
«Email is a (the only?) networked publishing technology with both widespread, near universal adoption,4 and history. It is, as they say, proven.»
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Electric Bike, Stupid Love of My Life
Reflections on eighteen months of electric bike ownership
Walking Venice
Notes on a week of walking Venice, an incredibly beautiful city that feels totally cursed
Looking Closely is Everything
How the pandemic taught me to look closely at the world, and how I hope to carry that forward out the other side
Post Artifact Books and Publishing
— Craig Mod, June 2011 "Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot,…
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