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slash inquiring minds to find out more. So, Indray, this week, I got to talk to one of my heroes.

Kevin Kelly, he's one of the original Mavericks. I think he's sort of a rare breed today.

He was a college dropout. He went on to

edit the incredibly influential Whole Earth Catalog. He started the first hacker conference,

and then he went on to even be on the first episode of This American Life with his stories.

But I think he's most famous for in the early 90s joining a small team that founded

the little magazine called Wired. And he's become one of the most respected long-term thinkers

on technology since then. And more importantly, lately he's been talking about the culture of

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