Kevin Kelly

What in your life do you think you most mastered?

Yeah, that's a good question.

There are some small things.

I am a really, really good ninja travel photographer.

And I did 50 years of traveling in Asia in this book.

And I have a nose, a really great nose for arriving on a place and being able to find something that was happening.

I land in a city and I could tell over here, there's going to be something interesting happening.

Kind of like the old Polynesian navigators, you could see the waves intersecting.

I could see waves of people moving in certain directions.

I could just pick up little posters.

Let's take those geoguessr guys that can identify the location of any random photograph that tell you where it is because of all these clues.

I have some mastery in being able to photograph cultural things in Asia.

That's a pretty obscure mastery, but from that, photography, visual storytelling, that could lead to other things.

It reminded me of, was it Napoleon movie where his skill was tasting milk?

He's like, yeah.

It's a very rarefied mastery.

But I think more generally, I have mastered at Wired and at Whole Earth.

And with the newsletters, I'm mastering a sense of trends.

I would say a sensibility of the future, a future sensibility.

My mentors like Stuart Brand was very good at this.