Kevin Kelly: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier




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Summary: When one of your heroes writes a book to share the wisdom they have collected in life and you have a podcast… this episode happens.<br> Kevin Kelly is Senior Maverick at Wired magazine. He co-founded Wired in 1993, and served as its <a href="https://amzn.to/3IK5hI4"></a>Executive Editor for its first seven years. His newest book is <a href="https://amzn.to/3KXuLmR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Excellent Advice for Living</a>, a book of 450 modern proverbs for good living. He is co-chair of <a href="http://www.longnow.org/">The Long Now Foundation</a>, a membership organization that champions long-term thinking and acting as a good ancestor to future generations. And he is founder of the popular <a href="https://kk.org/cooltools/">Cool Tools</a> website, which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. From 1984-1990 Kelly was publisher and editor of the Whole Earth Review, a subscriber-supported journal of unorthodox conceptual news. He co-founded the ongoing Hackers’ Conference, and was involved with the launch of the WELL, a pioneering online service started in 1985. Other books by Kelly include 1) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0143110373/kkorg-20/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=kkorg-20&amp;linkId=e49c5c5acbcb8ca68e3ba155c76e0550">The Inevitable</a>, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, 2) <a href="https://kk.org/books/out-of-control/">Out of Control</a>, his 1994 classic book on decentralized emergent systems, 3) <a href="https://amzn.to/2GUn5k9">The Silver Cord</a>, a graphic novel about robots and angels, 4) <a href="https://amzn.to/2KtWtaw">What Technology Wants</a>, a robust theory of technology, and 5) Vanishing Asia, his 50-year project to photograph the disappearing cultures of Asia.  He is best known for his radical optimism about the future.<br> You can check out Kevin Kelly’s first visit to the podcast here: <a href="https://trippfuller.com/2016/08/06/kevin-kelly-the-sherpa-of-the-technium-and-future-czar-of-technology/">The Sherpa of the Technium and Future Czar of Technology</a><br> Want to get a free copy of Kevin Kelly’s new book <a href="https://amzn.to/427Zxik">Excellent Advice for Living </a>and <a href="https://amzn.to/3qjEWKL">the new book I edited of my favorite fount of wisdom John Cobb</a>? Well I will draw three names from those who submit their own nugget of wisdom below.<br> Loading…<br> <a href="https://followthepodcast.com/hbc">Follow the podcast, drop a review</a>, or become a <a href="https://trippfuller.com/community/">member of the HBC Community</a>.<a href="https://followthepodcast.com/hbc"><br> <br> </a><br> <br> <a href="https://theonlygodordainedsurvey.com/emptyaltars/"></a><a class="fancybox image" href="https://trippfuller.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Easter-Stories_Crossan_square-with-text_01.png" data-featherlight="image"></a><br> <br>