Kevin Kelly's Life Lessons — With Kevin Kelly

Big Technology Podcast

Alex Kantrowitz

Technology, Religion & Spirituality, Business News, Business, Religion, Science, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Entrepreneurship, Management, Marketing, Politics, News Commentary, Government, Investing, Tech News, Social Sciences, News

4.6 • 395 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a longtime tech writer who's covered technology for decades. Kelly joins Big Technology Podcast for a fun episode, unpacking a series of lists of advice that he’s written. These lists contain short but insightful observations about life, and Kelly goes through a number of his points at greater length in this show. Stay tuned for the second half, where we discuss his essay about 1,000 true fans — a seminal work that helped launch the passion economy — and how it holds up today. Relevant links: 1,000 True Fans 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice 99 Additional Bits of Unsolicited Advice 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kovnet, host of The Next Big Idea Daily.
0:04.0	The show is a masterclass in better living from some of the smartest writers around.
0:08.7	Every morning, Monday through Friday, we'll serve up a quick 10-minute lesson on how to strengthen your relationships,
0:14.9	supercharge your creativity, boost your productivity, and more.
0:18.9	Follow the Next Big Idea Daily wherever you get your podcasts.
0:23.6	LinkedIn Presents.
0:27.6	Welcome to the Big Technology podcast, a show for cool-headed, nuanced conversation of the tech world and beyond.
0:46.8	Our guest today is Kevin Kelly. He's the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a longtime tech
0:52.3	luminary who's been writing about the tech world for decades.
0:55.6	Kelly joins us today for a fun episode, unpacking a series of lists of advice that he's written.
1:00.6	His lists, and there are three of them to this point, are jam-packed with insights that have
1:04.3	helped me live a better life, and I'm sure many others every time that they read that.
1:08.9	And Kelly's also written the seminal essay of the creator economy, the one that's inspired
1:13.0	many people like me to decide to go out and become independent.
1:16.4	It's called A Thousand True Fans, and I'm sure we're going to get to that in the second
1:19.4	half.
1:20.0	And so I am excited to welcome Kevin to the show.
1:23.4	Thank you for inviting me.
1:24.9	It's a real privilege and honor to be here.
1:27.2	I appreciate it.
1:28.4	Awesome. Kevin, one of your, one of my favorite essays of yours is this essay called A Thousand True Fans
1:34.1	that talks about how creators just need a thousand true fans to be able to make it. I want to
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