I had the great pleasure of talking with someone I admire a lot: Kevin Kelly!
He not only influenced my life directly through his works & ideas but he’s also cited as an inspiration and influence by many of the people that I admire, so I’m sure there’s an indirect influence too!
Among other things, we discuss his new book (order your copy today!), creativity, the impact of AI, stylistic hybrids, how to create family traditions and rites of passage, Universal Personal Interns (UPIs), what is scarce in the universe, “productivity is for robots, humans are good at what is inefficient”, making friends with older and younger people, and much more.
Please enjoy my wide-ranging conversation with the inimitable K.K.! 💚 🥃
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I’ve been jotting down bits of advice I wished I had known earlier in my life, and then sharing them with my children. Each one is like a tweet — a wisdom tweet. This year I have put 450 of them into a pocket-sized book, called Excellent Advice for Living. —KK
The book comes out on May 2, 2023, but you can pre-order it today.
As you can tell from the podcast, I really enjoyed reading it and found it full of thought-provoking ideas — ranging from profound to everyday life advice. I found myself wanting to share and discuss many of the ideas with my wife.
Always the sign of a good book!
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Great interview Liberty!
Thank you my friend, glad you like it! 💚 🥃
Excellent episode. Having interviewed him a few weeks ago I was really pleased to hear you approach him and his work from a more interesting angle than I took! I was intrigued about the piece on improving search for podcasts. I wonder if anyone is creating an au that is trained on a library of podcasts…I am doing so on my back catalog but not very helpful for discoverability!
Thank you for listening and glad you liked it, Mark!
I just listened to your pod (https://outsidelens.com/kevin-kelly-ai/) and liked it too. But it was over too quickly -- thought I guess leave the audience wanting more is better than overstaying your welcome, haha.
I wish I had thought of asking him about cultured meat, that's an interesting topic that I've been following for a while.
Cheers 💚 🥃
My full interview coming out next week. Wanted to get the ai portion out first. He is such an amazing guy. Really like his passion for continuing to create which is an example to me, for sure!
Ah, I thought it must be an excerpt, but I probably skipped over the part where that was explained -- my bad!