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Best Of: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

Best Of: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

Update: 2025-07-03
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Kevin Kelly has made a career out of looking to the future. He helped pioneer online social networking all the way back in the 1980s, and he co-founded Wired, the magazine devoted to digital technology, when the internet was still an infant. But in his new book, Excellent Advice for Living, he looks backward. It’s a collection of 450 bits of wisdom he wishes he’d known when he was young. Things like “Being enthusiastic is worth 25 IQ points” and “That thing that made you weird as a kid could make you great as an adult—if you don’t lose it.” Today on the show he shares his best advice for building careers, nurturing relationships, solving problems, and finding satisfaction. He also explains why he’s more optimistic than ever about technology (yes, even AI).

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Best Of: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

Best Of: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

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