2025-06-16 08:00:00
Roden Readers — What a tour. My god. It’s going to take me a while to fully process the last six weeks. But the tldr is: What a tour, what a wonderful tour. Better than I could have imagined, far exceeding all expectations. Thank you to everyone who showed up. Did you come to an event and take pictures? If so, please drop them in this folder. Thanks. I did a terrible job documenting things and am grateful to everyone who has shared pics.
2025-06-04 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — For years, Kevin Kelly and I have been inviting (to no avail) Rich Roll on Walk and Talks. So it was with great delight that about a month ago, I (Craig Mod, author of this newsletter, Ridgeline; thanks for subscribing) flew out to LA to go on the Rich Roll pod. Rich is one of those intriguing humans who has made a mega name for himself within a huge swath of narrowly defined people.
2025-05-20 08:00:00
Roden Readers — Hello from the halfway mark of the Things Become Other Things mega-tour! Though it’s only been about three weeks since arriving in the States, it feels like I’ve been on the road for about seven years. I’ve done events at: Rizzoli (NYC), Notion (NYC), Politics & Prose (D.C.), Booksmith (S.F.), Microsoft (Seattle), and Third Place Books (Seattle). In the parlance of depressing tech company performance reviews: They’ve all EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS.
2025-05-16 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — Howdy from the Things Become Other Things MegaTour, USA, where I’m on planes, trains, and self-driving automobiles as I make my way back and forth across this flawed and beautiful continent, talking, talking, signing, and stamping things. I’m doing a little walking; I walked around the Botanical gardens in SF, and walked on the Wharf, and took big walks up and down Manhattan but, honestly, I’ve been trying my best to listen to my body and my body has been saying: Be still when you can be still.
2025-05-07 08:00:00
Ridgeline subscribers — That’s Things Become Other Things, up in the window of what is — IMHO — one of the greatest bookstores in the world. I think it’s worth taking a beat to note why the store feels so good and, ultimately, how deceptively simple the ingredients of that goodness are. The store in question is Three Lives & Company. It’s a great name. In a great little neighborhood (the West Village (Manhattan)) which puts it off to a great start.
2025-05-06 08:00:00
Roden Readers — It’s out. Almost four years to the day I started my big Kii walk in 2021 (it began on May 10), today — May 6 — marks the release of the Random House edition of Things Become Other Things. This has been a crazy monumental undertaking. I’m so happy with where it landed and I can’t wait for you to read it. You can pick it up in all the usual spots: