#802: Craig Mod — The Real Japan, Cheap Apartments in Tokyo, Productive Side Quests, Creative Retreats, Buying Future Freedom, and Being Possessed by Spirits

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🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Craig Mod is a writer, photographer, and walker living in Tokyo and Kamakura, Japan. He is the author of Things Become Other Things and Kissa by Kissa. He also writes the newsletters Roden and Ridgeline and has contributed to The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, and more.

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0:00.0	Hello, boys and girls, ladies and germs. This is Tim Ferriss. Welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferriss show where I explore the strange, the edge, the practical, the nuance, the tactical.
0:11.6	And my guest today is a dear friend. I've wanted to have him on the podcast for a very long time, Craig Mod, M-O-D. He is a writer, photographer, and Walker. We'll talk about that a lot,
0:24.4	living in Tokyo, and Kamakura, Japan. He is the author of Things Become Other Things, and K-I-S-S-A. Don't
0:33.0	worry about it. We'll get to it. He also writes the newsletters, Rodin, and Ridgeline,
0:37.1	and has contributed to the New York Times, the Atlantic, Wired, and more.
0:40.8	He has walked thousands of miles across Japan in every conceivable place, and since 2016, he has been co-running walk-in talks with Kevin Kelly, perhaps the most interesting man in the world.
0:54.1	In various places around the world, the Cotswolds, northern Thailand, Bali, southern China, Japan, Spain,
1:02.6	which includes the Portuguese and French communos, and much more.
1:06.2	Today's episode is wide-ranging, and I had so much fun with this.
1:10.6	We ended up discussing Craig's early
1:12.2	life, his path to Japan, his struggles with self-worth and alcoholism, and how he
1:18.1	overcame both of them, creative development, his writing experiments, his initial experiences
1:23.9	with walking and writing, and so much more. I really think you will get a lot out of this
1:28.4	conversation as I did. I took copious notes. And I also decided to keep some of the behind the
1:34.1	scenes banter before the interview in the recording that you're going to hear, which I thought
1:38.6	might be fun for shits and giggles, just for the fun of it. Why not? You can find CraigMod at CraigMod.com.
1:46.1	That's the H-Q for everything, CraigM-O-D.com. You can find him on Instagram at CraigMod and on
1:54.0	Blue Sky as well, CraigMod.com. And with that, and just a few words from the people who make this
2:00.1	podcast possible,
2:01.4	we'll get right into the meat and potatoes of Craig Maud.
2:04.4	I am always on the hunt for protein sources that don't require sacrifices in taste or
2:09.8	nutrition. I don't want to eat sawdust. I also don't want a candy bar that's disguised as a protein
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