Excellent Advice for Living

“So, he had at that time, I think it was a draft of a book that he put together, this tiny book called Excellent Advice for Living, which are these pathy little quotes from Kevin that he used to put in his I think they were his birthday letters to friends where he'd be like, "Here are the 10 things”

“And to invoke our mutual friend Kevin Kelly in his book of Excellent Advice, which came out not too long ago, great book.”

“I'm holding two copies of the book. One is very, very tiny. This is a prized possession, now. I've read it probably 12 times. I have many, many notes and there are all sorts of notes in here. Excellent Advice for Living.”

“And I have read my little bootleg copy of Excellent Advice for Living probably 20 times. It really is something that you can refer to again and again and again. And each time you read it with a new pair of eyes, because you're in a different state, maybe a different place in your life, you also glean different things.”

“Kevin Kelly in his new book, called Excellent Advice for Living, said, “You know how you have that bad pen? Throw out the bad pen.””

“he sent me this little book it's called excellent advice for living seeds for contemplation and these are based on his i want to say for the last two or three years”

“You will hear us refer to his latest book, Excellent Advice for Living, throughout, and I highly recommend reading it if you haven't already.”

“The other cut at this that I love, maybe my second favorite thing in the book after that opening quote that we explored is this notion that the reward for good work is more work.”

“Speaking of three, my third most powerful takeaway from the book was this notion of the three gates, this idea of asking yourself three questions before you say something.”

“I have a background in philosophy, and so I can't help myself but focus on your advice that's very big and grandiose and about life and work. But the book is also full of very tiny bits of advice and very tactical bits of advice.”

“I'd love to spend a minute or two just having the benefit of having you on the call to ask about your conception of technology. Before reading this book, like I said, I've been preparing this for a long time because I read all your other books about technology.”

“I think it's amazing that the advice in the book is somehow both counterintuitive and obvious. And just like to sum up what I take from this, it's the smartest strategy, even if you're trying to be selfish, is to be generous and unique.”

“You will hear us refer to his latest book, Excellent Advice for Living, throughout, and I highly recommend reading it if you haven't already.”

“The other cut at this that I love, maybe my second favorite thing in the book after that opening quote that we explored is this notion that the reward for good work is more work.”

“Speaking of three, my third most powerful takeaway from the book was this notion of the three gates, this idea of asking yourself three questions before you say something.”

“I have a background in philosophy, and so I can't help myself but focus on your advice that's very big and grandiose and about life and work, but the book is also full of very tiny bits of advice and very tactical bits of advice.”

“Before reading this book, like I said, I've been preparing this for a long time because I read all your other books about technology. Your notion of the technium has been very influential on me”

“I think it's amazing that the advice in the book is somehow both counterintuitive and obvious. And just like to sum up what I take from this, it's the smartest strategy, even if you're trying to be selfish, is to be generous and unique.”

“I'm talking about Kevin Kelly who came on the podcast and just dropped wisdom gold on so many subjects. We talked about careers, relationships, parenting, finances, innovation, basically excellent advice for living, which also happens to be the title of his latest book.”

“in addition we discussed Kevin's latest book which is called excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known ear earlier and the book as predicted is excellent”

“your newest book excellent advice for living um this is sort of this is a really interesting book because on the one hand it's incredibly simple but every idea that that you know shows up on every page the more you consider these very concise phrases the more profound you realize they are”

“in the meantime excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known earlier is is your new book everybody check it out this is like the perfect book to just you know basically open to any page and have a thought for the day”

“The next is number two, Kevin Kelly, who wrote Excellent Advice for Living, which is a book of maxims and my favorite one is don't aim to be the best, be the only.”

“And in this book, Excellent Advice for Living, you wrote this on your 68th birthday, the original... Blog post that this came out of and you wrote 68 pieces of advice for your kids”

“like I say the fledgling aphorist in me is really really impressed by this excellent advice for living everybody should go and check that out”

“most recently Kevin has a new book out which I recommend excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known earlier”

“I'll mention yearbook again before the final question excellent advice for living wisdom I wish I'd known earlier”

“There's just a whole lot to unpack in this final piece of advice in this book, my excellent advice for living.”

“It's actually more recent is to kind of reflect on things like even writing this book where you have to articulate what it is.”

“This is something I learned at Wired Magazine. And then there is a piece of advice in the book that's a little bit like this.”

“And I have a little bit of wisdom in the book saying, you know, the thing that made you weird as a kid can make you great as an adult if you don't lose it.”

“Yeah, I'm not very good. I think you need to talk to Esther Perel, who's in this couple's therapy. Actually, there was one thing in the book that I think came from Esther, which is the rule of three in conversation.”

“And that bias runs through my book, which is that the universe is generally abundant. That's the bias of the universe, that there's this other weird paradox at the foundation of the universe”

“And this goes back to what I was talking about articulating. For me, that was something that we were very slow to see at Wired, but I did learn that there's a bit of advice in my book about what we learned from the advertising people, which is to get your message across, you have to simplify, simplify, simplify, and”

“So so I've concluded this is not in my advice book but this is a piece of advice I have now...”

“And uh most of the people who are really really famous really regret that that is because they have to deal with it all the time. And it's a real um what's the word again? uh hinders it hinders them in many ways and so it's not freedom at all and I and it's the same thing so so um”

“And it would have been easier if I had, this goes back to the subtitle of my book, Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier. I wish I'd known this earlier, that that's sort of the framing of a good life”

“This is something I learned at Wired Magazine. And then there is a piece of advice in the book that's a little bit like this. It has to do with there's a value in articulating what you're doing”

“And I have a little bit of wisdom in the book saying, you know, the thing that made you weird as a kid can make you great as an adult if you don't lose it.”

“I think you need to talk to Esther Perel, who's in this couple's therapy. Actually, there was one thing in the book that I think came from Esther, which is the rule of three in conversation”

“And that bias runs through my book, which is that the universe is generally abundant. That's the bias of the universe, that there's this other weird paradox at the foundation of the universe, of the human condition anyway, which is that the more you give, the more you get”

“There's a bit of advice in my book about what we learned from the advertising people, which is to get your message across, you have to simplify, simplify, simplify, and then exaggerate.”

“so this is really the subtitle of my book wisdom I wish I'd known earlier it just took me way way too long to kind of get there”

“I had Kevin Kelly on the program recently he wrote a book called excellent advice for living wisdom I I wish I'd known earlier I really enjoyed that book it's a set of aphorisms many of them I think are true almost all of them and they're put in very witty and memorable formats to help you uh remember them”

“it's called excellent advice for living”