Kevin Kelly: Excellent Advice for Living

The Knowledge Project

Shane Parrish

Society & Culture, Technology, Business

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

When Kevin Kelly turned 68 years old, he began writing down notes and thoughts about all the lessons he’d learned in his life and the ones he wished he’d learned earlier. While those notes were originally intended for his young adult children, they eventually became the book Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier, which was released in May 2023. On this episode of the Knowledge Project, Kelly goes in-depth on some of the book’s most essential lessons, including learning, setting deadlines, perfection, forgiveness, living a meaningful life, reasoning, and so much more. Kelly is the co-founder of the magazine Wired, which twice won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence while he served as publication’s Executive Editor during the 1990s. He is also the co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, a membership organization that champions long-term thinking, as well as the founder of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. He is also an artist as well as the author of 14 books. -- Want even more? Members get early access, hand-edited transcripts, member-only episodes, and so much more. Learn more here: https://fs.blog/membership/ Every Sunday our Brain Food newsletter shares timeless insights and ideas that you can use at work and home. Add it to your inbox: https://fs.blog/newsletter/ Follow Shane on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/ShaneAParrish Our Sponsors: MetaLab: Helping the world’s top companies design, build, and ship amazing products and services. https://www.metalab.com Aeropress: Press your perfect cup, every time. https://aeropress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've had the privilege of knowing a lot of accomplished people, successful people, famous people,
0:08.2	super rich people, and man, the outsides not represent their insights, and we tend to
0:15.2	want to compare ourselves to their outsides, to their own ideas of what success is.
0:22.2	I'm better and I do better when I am not trying to imitate someone else's success.
0:30.6	I mean, in a certain way, what you want to do is you want to kind of grow your own metric
0:35.2	for what would be successful for you.
0:39.2	You want to have a different metric.
0:52.2	Welcome to the Knowledge Project, a podcast about mastering the best of what other people
1:01.8	have already figured out, so you can apply their insights to your life.
1:06.7	I'm your host, Shane Parish.
1:09.3	If you're listening to this, you're missing out.
1:11.2	If you'd like access to the podcast before public release, special episodes that don't
1:15.6	appear anywhere else, hand-edited transcripts, or you just want to support the show that
1:20.4	you love, you can join at FS.blog slash membership.
1:24.3	Check out the show notes for a link.
1:26.3	Today, my guest is the legendary Kevin Kelly, who might just be the most interesting man
1:31.2	in the world.
1:32.4	He co-founded Wired Magazine, which along with 2600 was a regular on my nightstand growing
1:37.8	up.
1:38.8	He also co-founded the All Species Foundation, a non-profit aimed at cataloging every
1:43.6	living species on Earth, written a host of books on technology and life, and serves on
1:48.6	the board of the long now foundation.
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