Stuart Brand: I wish I had more practical advice about how to pick a mentor or get a mentor to pick you. The kind of people I admire were not people who did achieve things but who were attractive people while they were achieving that. And, and so, I did try to surround myself with people that I respected at the very least, and maybe even admired if I could. There are enough people like that around in the world that if you wanted to you could learn from.
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.