Excellent Advice For Living: Kevin Kelly On Wealth, AI, Optimism, & The Future

**Kevin Kelly** (0:15)
Don't aim to be the best, aim to be the only.

**Rich Roll** (0:20)
Hey everybody, welcome to the podcast. Today, I'm speaking with Kevin Kelly, a true pioneer in the world of technology and media, here to help us make better sense of our confusing present and to share an admittedly optimistic gaze into the future.

**Kevin Kelly** (0:36)
In the end, it's only gonna be the optimist who are gonna shape our culture. So you wanna be on the side of the optimist to make your vision possible.

**Rich Roll** (0:44)
Kevin is the co-founder of Wired Magazine, widely recognized as the Bible of the digital age. He's also a renowned futurist, an author, a public speaker, whose insights into the world of technology and its impact on society have been widely sought after and deeply, deeply influential. Over the course of his career, Kevin has authored several seminal books, including Out of Control, The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World, and What Technology Wants. He has also been a prolific writer and commentator on a wide range of subjects related to technology, culture and society, and has been a regular contributor to publications, including The New York Times, The Economist and Scientific American. In today's conversation, Kevin shares a hopeful vision of the future of technology and how it will continue to transform our lives and transform our world for the better. In addition, we discuss Kevin's latest book, which is called Excellent Advice for Living Wisdom. I wish I'd known earlier. And the book as predicted is excellent. But first, let's acknowledge the awesome organizations that make this show possible. Hey everybody, like me, InsideTracker wants to help you start the new year right. So they're thrilled to help support the living proof challenge, the no cost science-based habit building program designed by my well-being wizard brother, Simon Hill, to specifically up level the most important biomarkers that drive health span, that drive disease prevention, physical fitness and mental well-being courtesy of a doable evidence-based 12 week program elaborated upon in length in my conversation with Simon that dropped January 1, that's RRP804.
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