Kevin Kelly - Be Generous and Unique - [Invest Like the Best, CLASSICS]
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Welcome to this classic episode. Classics are my favorite episodes from the past 10 years published once a month. These are end of one conversations with end of one people. Kevin Kelly is one of the most original thinkers alive and has built a life around curiosity, creativity, and generosity. The central theme of this episode is that we should be as generous and as unique as possible. We wrote a colossus profile on Kevin and June called Flounder Mode. It describes how he works Hollywood style through a series of creative projects instead of one big thing and reminds us that greatness and joy don't have to be at odds. I hope you enjoy it. Here's a puzzle. What do OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, Vercel, Plaid, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common?
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My guest today is Kevin Kelly. Kevin co-founded Wired Magazine and has published a number of seminal books and essays on technology over the past three decades. I have devoured everything Kevin has put out into the world, and many of his ideas shape the way I live today. Our conversation explores media, family, money, his concept of the technium, AI, and more. But the central theme of this episode is that we should be as generous and as unique as possible. 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 please enjoy this great conversation with kevin kelly Kevin, I joke before we hit record here that I've been preparing for this conversation for years, having read, I think, probably all your books and loved your thinking on technology.
Maybe we'll talk about technology today as it relates to your new book, but I just have so enjoyed the pithy, simple, beautiful ideas in your latest book. And I wanted to start with one in particular, which maybe you could spend the whole hour on because it's kind of my favorite idea, which is your goal is to be able to say on your deathbed that you have become fully yourself. I have thought about this idea through the Joseph Campbell lens, through a million lenses, almost on a daily basis for 15 years. And I want to take this idea extremely seriously with you and hear your take on this beautiful idea to open our conversation.
You're right. There's just a whole lot to unpack in this final piece of advice in this book, my excellent advice for living. And it does sum up a lot of what I'm trying to do. So the first thing is, I don't think I've met anybody who has achieved this. I've met a lot of people who are absolutely in that direction and are absolutely approaching that. It's like an asymptote curve where you never actually get there.
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