312: ‘Not to Get Zealotrous’, With Craig Mod
Hosted by
John Gruber
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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