Excellent Advice for Living

Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

Kevin Kelly · 2023

Wired's founding editor distills a lifetime into hundreds of short, sharp aphorisms on how to live, work, and treat other people well.

On the eve of his seventieth birthday, Wired co-founder Kevin Kelly began writing down bits of hard-won advice for his children. It grew into hundreds of tightly packed aphorisms on money, kindness, work, travel, and how to treat people. Some are practical, some philosophical, and nearly all fit on a single line. The result is a book to open at random, less a manual than a lifetime of pattern recognition compressed into pocket-sized wisdom.

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