Excellent Advice for Living with Kevin Kelly

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🗓️ 3 May 2023

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Not all advice is excellent, and not all futurists are right. But Kevin Kelly, Founder and Senior Maverick of Wired Magazine, is the exception on both fronts. Today he returns to Rule Breaker Investing to share his optimistic take on the generous nature of the universe and our place in it.

(00:11:57) The Magic of Compounding
(00:17:50) Why the Size of your Balcony Matters
(00:20:45) Choosing Optimism
(00:29:40) Ending Meetings Early
(00:31:35) Saints and Superheroes
(00:40:35) Underestimating Long Term Possibilities
(00:45:18) Choose Options that Open Up More Options
(01:00:37) The Cheapest Possible Therapy
(01:06:38) Inevitable Updates

Companies Mentioned: AMZN, IRBT, ATVI, GOOG, BRK

Host: David Gardner
Guest: Kevin Kelly
Producer: Rick Engdahl

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0:00.0	Excellent advice for living. I mean who wouldn't want that?
0:05.0	Of course the question then comes, but is it excellent though?
0:09.0	Well, you will be the judge, but I'm confident you'll walk away smarter, happier, and richer because
0:15.8	the source of that excellent advice for living is the co-founder of Wired, author and futurist
0:21.6	all-around great human being Kevin Kelly who this week
0:25.0	rejoins me on rule breaker investing. Kevin first appeared in February
0:30.0	2018 on this podcast talking about his book The Inevitable,
0:35.0	reviewing some of the technological forces he viewed as Inevitable for our future.
0:41.0	This time though, he's down to something more practical. His new book's
0:45.4	title are the four words with which I let off this week's podcast
0:49.8	excellent advice for living.
0:53.0	Plus, we'll also later look back at his predictions in his book, The Inevitable,
1:00.0	grade him a little bit for his work and update his viewpoints for the year
1:05.7	2023 chatbots and all. Get ready for a wide-ranging cerebral speculative compelling and I hope you'll agree
1:15.4	excellent podcast this week only on Rule Breaker Investing.
1:19.8	It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.
1:27.0	Welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing.
1:31.0	Well, I closed last week's podcast
1:34.0	by reading one of my favorite quotes
1:36.4	from Kevin Kelly, my guest this week
1:39.3	on Rule Breaker Investing.
1:41.4	I hope you'll enjoy this conversation. This by the way since we recorded it
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