Hey there, it's Stephen Duhner. We have just launched a new spin-off podcast with my good friend Angela Duckworth.

It is called No Stupid Questions. We take turns asking and trying to answer questions about everything from friendship and parenting to immortality

and the classic conundrum of whether dogs are better than people.

I superimpose onto the face of every person who's annoying me the face of some dog.

This makes you nicer to them? Suddenly, I am empathetic toward every person.

No stupid questions is the name of our new podcast. Please subscribe right now wherever you get your podcasts.

I'd like to tell you how hard we worked on it, but honestly we just sit down and unload our brains.

But we have a great time making it and I think you'll enjoy listening.

So I hope you give no stupid questions to try and let us know what you think. Thanks.

Who doesn't love a little wisdom once in a while? We all seek it out in the people we know or would like to know,

in philosophy, in science, in religion, in adventure, and travel, in all sorts of mind-bending encounters.

Most wisdom is presented in a manner befitting its ambition with an important sounding title and a package designed to impress.

But sometimes, the wisdom is just sitting there on a website with a title like 68 bits of unsolicited advice.

That's what Kevin Kelly called the list he wrote on the occasion of his 68th birthday and he published it on his website, kk.org.

Yeah, it bounced around. Far more than I thought it would, so it has gone viral.

And why did he compile 68 bits of wisdom?

At the beginning of the year, I made a deal with my 23 year old son that we would each write something every day or make some art and then we try to hold each other accountable.

And I decided to write some advice for him as my little thing for the day.

For the day that happened to be his own birthday.

Yes, I decided to do what Hobbits do. As you might remember, Hobbits don't get birthday presents on the birthday, they give birthday presents.

By now you may well be asking yourself, who is this 68 year old Hobbit by the name of Kevin Kelly? And why should I pay attention to his wisdom?

I am officially the senior maverick at Wired Magazine, a magazine I co-founded 25 years ago.

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