How One Writer Uses Epic Walks as a Creative 'Operating System'
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Summary
Craig Mod is a Japanese-based writer and photographer who uses walking as his “operating system” for fostering creative work and thinking.
His memoir, “Things Become Other Things”, will be published in the U.S. on 6 May and he is preparing for a six-week tour to promote it.
He has co-led Walk and Talks with Kevin Kelly, which are movable salons, and introduced the Japanese city of Morioka to the world via a 2023 New York Times feature.
His work has led to over 100 TV, radio, magazine and newspaper interviews, and he has since fielded requests.
Things, a personal task manager, is his tool of choice for planning and tracking walks, and he uses Google Sheets and Docs, Ulysses, the Apple Mail app and Mimestream.
He uses Claude Code to help him iterate his members-only site, and AI has helped him build tools to support members, and talk through complex tax issues.
He has built a workflow in Alfred, an AI productivity tool, to allow him to access recent Google Drive files via the API without having to touch Drive itself.