- packaging ideas into books and websites, make ideas pretty
- book ideas
- Go out and do things that excite you
- first job at the age of 35
- short bio- longer bio- https://kk.org/biography
- Exactly. Explore the possibilities, and there are so many possibilities, and there's more every day. You don't want- it's called "premature optimization". You really want to use this time to continue to do things. And by the way, premature optimization is a problem of success, too. It's not just the problem of the young, it's the problem of the successful more than even of the young. But we'll get to that. That's a long answer, too. (laughs)
- "i write in order to think. i don't actually know what i think until I write it. it helps me think"
- ideas that i can't kill, ideas that don't go away. that's the vetting process. it keeps me up at night.
- voice is- talking to friends after 2 glasses of wine
- life is figuring things out, everyday of your life is just an attempt to figure things out
- invest in the unknown OR invest in your strengths, pursuit of curiosity or your excellence?
- go be a failure
- very difficult after a line of success
- Because of what I call the "creator's dilemma", which is very much the same thing as the "innovator's dilemma". It's a true dilemma, in the sense that there's no right answer. But the question is: is it better to optimize your strengths or to invest into the unknown, into places where you're weak?
- Tim Ferriss: Or places you haven't explored.
- Kevin Kelly: Yeah. Any accountant in any business would tell you that it absolutely makes more sense to take your dollar ... * You'll get a higher return by investing into what you're good at already, whatever it is. This is pursuit of excellence, this is Tom Peters and the whole entire movement, which is you move uphill, you keep optimizing what you know. That, by far, is the sanest, the most reasonable, the smartest thing to do.
- But when you have a very fast-changing landscape like we live in right now, you get stuck on a local optima, you get stuck. The problem is, is that the only way you can get to a higher, more fit place, is you actually have to go down. You actually have to head into a place where you are less optimal, you have no expertise, there's very low margins, there's low profits, you'll look foolish, there'll be failures.
- And if you've been following a line of success, that is very, very difficult to do. It's very difficult for an organization- it's literally almost impossible for an organization who's been excellent and successful to do, it really is.
- we revert back to things we loved to do as a child
- living like im going to die in 6 months
- what is the role of someone who wants to do good in the world
- to be human is to have something to look forward to
- encyclopedia edited by anybody, map view of every street in the world. every view of the future is going to be wrong
- SO GOOD THEY CAN'T IGNORE YOU
- mastery to passion
aug 3 2020 ∞
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