Kevin Kelly
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Newsstands didn't want to carry it because there was no category.
Where do we put this magazine?
Computer?
No, no, it's not computer magazine.
It's technology lifestyle magazine.
What's that?
There's no category for there.
So it's hard.
It's really hard to be the only in that sense.
But if you can, the rewards are very, very high.
And I think that's where you want to aim your life, your family, your company, country.
When I think of kindness, I think of a moment many, many, many, many, many years ago when I was traveling in the Philippines, when the Philippines was an incredibly poor developing country.
There was not even a good map to the country.
There was no guidebook, literally nothing.
And I was traveling, exploring there, and I arrived somewhere at night, no idea where I was going at
I don't even remember why I arrived there, but what happened was some family living in a grass hut waved me in, and I remember that they wanted to give me dinner, and they sent a kid out, which I saw, to buy...
some canned food somewhere because they didn't have food themselves and they took some very very precious cash i could just see to buy food for me it was for me unbelievably kind it was like i don't know like some random person walks by your house and you're gonna empty your life savings
to give to them.
So obviously, I had far more than they had, and I could have bought my own food, though there wasn't really much for sale.
It was like a little tiny canned fish, but it was incredibly precious.