Kevin Kelly
@kevinkelly.bsky.social
Senior Maverick, Wired. Author, maker, artist, father. Cool tool maven, true film buff, and fan of Asia. Radical optimist.
Right now, no matter your age, these are your golden years. The good stuff will yield golden memories and the bad stuff will yield golden lessons.
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November 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Right now, no matter your age, these are your golden years. The good stuff will yield golden memories and the bad stuff will yield golden lessons.
For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice
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When you are stuck, make a long list of everything that cannot possibly work. On that list will be a seed that leads to a solution that will work.
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
When you are stuck, make a long list of everything that cannot possibly work. On that list will be a seed that leads to a solution that will work.
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The first step is usually to complete the last step. You can’t load into a full dish rack.
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November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
The first step is usually to complete the last step. You can’t load into a full dish rack.
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Go with the option that opens up yet more options.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Go with the option that opens up yet more options.
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Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Embrace pronoia, which is the opposite of paranoia. Choose to believe that the entire universe is conspiring behind your back to make you a success.
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Commit to doing no work, no business, no income one day a week. Call it a sabbath (or not). Use that day for resting, recharging, and cultivating the most important things in life. Counterintuitively, this sabbath will prove to be your most productive act all week. #excellentadvice
November 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Commit to doing no work, no business, no income one day a week. Call it a sabbath (or not). Use that day for resting, recharging, and cultivating the most important things in life. Counterintuitively, this sabbath will prove to be your most productive act all week. #excellentadvice
To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter to a friend about why it is so hard to explain, and then remove the initial “Dear Friend” part and you’ll have a great first draft.
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November 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
To write about something hard to explain, write a detailed letter to a friend about why it is so hard to explain, and then remove the initial “Dear Friend” part and you’ll have a great first draft.
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The natural state of all possessions is to need repair and maintenance. What you own will eventually own you. Choose selectively.
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November 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The natural state of all possessions is to need repair and maintenance. What you own will eventually own you. Choose selectively.
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When making plans, you must allow yourself to get lost in order to find the thing you didn’t know you were looking for.
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November 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
When making plans, you must allow yourself to get lost in order to find the thing you didn’t know you were looking for.
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If your sense of responsibility is not expanding as you grow, you are not really growing.
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November 1, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If your sense of responsibility is not expanding as you grow, you are not really growing.
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Your best photo portrait will be taken not while you are smiling but when you are quiet a moment after you have been laughing. Use a photographer who makes you laugh.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Your best photo portrait will be taken not while you are smiling but when you are quiet a moment after you have been laughing. Use a photographer who makes you laugh.
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If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go further, go together.
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October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go further, go together.
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The rich have money. The wealthy have time. It is easier to become wealthy than rich.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:03 PM
The rich have money. The wealthy have time. It is easier to become wealthy than rich.
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To speed a meeting up, require that any person who speaks must say something no one else in the room knows.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:03 PM
To speed a meeting up, require that any person who speaks must say something no one else in the room knows.
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If you don’t care about your people, they won’t care about your mission.
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October 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
If you don’t care about your people, they won’t care about your mission.
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Being curious about another person’s view is the most powerful way to change their view.
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October 26, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Being curious about another person’s view is the most powerful way to change their view.
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If you are stuck in life, travel to a place you have never heard of.
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October 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
If you are stuck in life, travel to a place you have never heard of.
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An open heart is the most direct path to an open mind.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
An open heart is the most direct path to an open mind.
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Your ideal partner is not someone you never disagree with but someone you are glad to disagree with.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Your ideal partner is not someone you never disagree with but someone you are glad to disagree with.
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To succeed once, focus on the outcome; to keep succeeding, focus on the process that makes the outcome.
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October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
To succeed once, focus on the outcome; to keep succeeding, focus on the process that makes the outcome.
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Don’t define yourself by your opinions, because then you can’t change your mind. Define yourself by your values.
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October 21, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Don’t define yourself by your opinions, because then you can’t change your mind. Define yourself by your values.
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Your 20s are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual, weird, bold, risky, unexplainable, crazy, unprofitable, and look nothing like “success. For the rest of your life these experiences will serve as your muse. #excellentadvice
October 20, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Your 20s are the perfect time to do a few things that are unusual, weird, bold, risky, unexplainable, crazy, unprofitable, and look nothing like “success. For the rest of your life these experiences will serve as your muse. #excellentadvice
The greatest killer of happiness is comparison. If you must compare, compare yourself to you yesterday.
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October 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The greatest killer of happiness is comparison. If you must compare, compare yourself to you yesterday.
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Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.
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October 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.
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Spending as little as 15 minutes (1% of your day) on improving how you do your thing, is the most powerful way to amplify and advance your thing.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Spending as little as 15 minutes (1% of your day) on improving how you do your thing, is the most powerful way to amplify and advance your thing.
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For more advice see my book Excellent Advice for Living amzn.to/3mQL4c4 #excellentadvice