Becoming Better Ancestors: Wisdom for Progressing in Life with Kevin Kelly

May 1

The Rhys Show · Becoming Better Ancestors: Wisdom for Progressing in Life with Kevin Kelly

In this upcoming episode, Kevin Kelly - a photographer, futurist, writer, and co-founder of Wired - shares his insights on how to become better ancestors and create a better world for ourselves and future generations. We dive deep into his new book, "Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier," which features 450 mantras for progressing in life.

Kelly also shares his experiences writing for Wired, his thoughts on AI and expertise, and practical guidance for matters ranging from career and parenting to creating family traditions.

Tune in to this conversation to learn more about how you can incorporate these snippets of wisdom into your life and live a better life.

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Topics:

Welcome Kevin Kelly to The Rhys Show!: (00:00:00)
Intro: (00:01:57)
Reflections about a 30 year journey: (00:02:29)
About first years at Wired writing about what was happening with the internet: (00:05:00)
About Kevin’s book Excellent Advice for Living and how he came to writing it: (00:08:58)
About the memetic refactoring process: (00:14:30)
Advice to be yourself and be better: (00:00:00)
Advice for parenting: (00:27:22)
Markers of Kevin’s family identity: (00:30:42)
Thoughts on being most annoyed by things that actually are aspects of ourselves: (00:36:00)
Advice for young folks around technology and building: (00:39:23)
Advice for moving through the big stages of life: (00:45:41)
Overrated and underrated questions : (00:49:17)