Out of Hours: The Podcast Kevin Kelly, on How to Find Your Purpose, and Excellent Advice for Living and his Favourite Self Help Books.
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Kevin Kelly is the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor and publisher of the Whole Earth Review. He has also been a writer, photographer, conservationist, and student of Asian and digital culture.
He is also co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, a membership organisation that champions long-term thinking. He is founder of the popular Cool Tools website, which has been reviewing tools daily for 20 years. He is also the author of multiple best-selling books about the future of technology. His newest is Excellent Advice for Living, a book of 450 modern proverbs for a pretty good life.
In this episode we talk about:
- What makes good advice (and is there such thing as original advice?)
- Why language is important for using advice well
- Why he wasn't in love when he got married but is now
- The self-help books that actually changed his behaviour
- Why you shouldn't wear a hat with more personality than you
- Why he admires Jeff Bezos every time he meets him
Please enjoy!
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