The Importance of Serendipity in Life

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"Some of the best things in my life happened unexpectedly. It ended up in a very different direction than where and where the where it started." "I made the book for me. I'm the fan of it, that's what counted," he says about his latest project. He was inspired to travel around Asia taking photographs as part of an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Photographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. His advice includes how to have a deep conversation, why it's better to control time than money--and whether, in the end, we should give advice in the first place. Other topics of discussion include the right object of our aspirations, the reason for optimism when it comes to technology, and why Kelly is not worried about AI.