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Notes From Kevin Kelly’s Excellent Advice for Living
Seven bits of advice from Kevin I wish I knew when I was younger
Kevin Kelly might be the world’s real-life most interesting man in the world. He helped launch and edit The Wired magazine. He’s written several best-selling books including The Inevitable, Vanishing Asia, What Technology Wants and more. He’s currently a co-chair of The Long Now Foundation which is building a clock in the mountain that will tick for 10,000 years. He also has a daily blog; a weekly podcast about cool tools; and a weekly newsletter, Recomendo, a free, one-page list of six very brief recommendations of cool stuff.
Kevin most recently wrote Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I’d Known Earlier. On his more recent birthdays, he wrote down little bits of advice — things about life, work, health, and more — and decided to share it with his family. And then he thought it would be useful to others so he wrote it in his blog. After writing a few posts like this, some people thought it would make a great book so he collected his posts, edited it, and then wrote a few more and that’s what made the book.
Some of my favourite bits of advice along with why I think it’s great are below:
