421: ‘The Ratchet of Flippancy’, With Craig Mod

The Talk Show With John Gruber

Craig Mod returns to the show to discuss his splendid new book, Things Become Other Things. Other topics include creating with AI tools (including programming), social media permanence vs. ephemerality, and more.

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Transcripts: Unofficial but surprisingly good.

Links:

• “Things Become Other Things”, Craig’s new book from Random House (!):
  • Craig’s web page for the book — including tour dates.
  • Random House’s page for the book.
  • Purchase links:
    • Amazon
    • Bookshop.org
    • Apple Books
    • Barnes & Noble
• Craig’s home page.
• The Good Place — Craig’s write-up on designing and building (with Claude Code) his own custom Twitter-like ephemeral social network for members of his (fun, excellent) Special Projects website.
• Ulysses — Craig’s writing app of choice.

This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton.