Kevin Kelly

Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. Unwavering honesty will help seal in trust.

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When you keep people waiting, they begin to think of all your flaws.

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Your opinion on a contentious issue gains power when you can argue the opposite side as well as they can.

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Paying AIs to Read My Books Some authors have it backwards. They believe that AI companies should pay them for training AIs on their books. But I predict in a very short while, authors will be paying AI companies to ensure that ...

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It’s unfortunate when someone you carefully trained leaves; but it is worse if you don’t train them and they stay.

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To learn from your mistakes, first laugh at your mistakes.

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Measure your wealth not by the things you can buy but by the things that no money can buy.

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Curiosity is fatal to certainty. The more curious you are, the less certain you’ll be.

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Even if you don’t say anything, if you listen carefully, people will consider you a great conversationalist.

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First, always ask for what you want. Works in relationships, business, life.

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Trust the 3-star product reviews because they tell both the good and the bad, which is the real state for most things.

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As long as an idea stays in your head it is perfect. But perfect things are never real. Immediately put an idea down into words, or in a sketch, or as a cardboard prototype. Now your idea is much closer to reality because it is imperfect. #excellentadvice

When you can’t decide, ask yourself, “Which choice will pay off more later than now?” The easy choice pays off right away. The best choice will pay off at the end.

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Read the books that your favorite authors once read.

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Remember you are human!

We are unconsciously distracted by seeing our reflection. You can alleviate a lot of the fatigue of teleconferencing all day if you turn off your self-view.

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It is not hard to identify a thief: It is the one who believes that everybody steals.

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For a great payoff, be especially curious about the things you are not interested in.

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The Periodic Table of Cognition I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have...

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To lower tensions during a dispute, mirror the other person’s body language.

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If nobody else does what you do, you won’t need a resume.

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You choose to be lucky by believing that any setbacks are just temporary.

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There is no perfection, only progress. Done is much better than perfect.

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The big dirty secret is that everyone, especially the famous, are just making it up as they go along.

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It is usually much easier to make big audacious changes than small incremental ones.

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The best way to advise young people is to find out what they really want to do and then advise them to do it.

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A proper apology consists of conveying the 3 Rs: regret (genuine empathy with the other), responsibility (not blaming someone else), and remedy (your willingness to fix it).

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Don’t mistake a clear view of the future for a short distance.

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Be extremely stingy in making promises because you must be generous in keeping them.

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You can ignore any website with the word “truth” in its URL.

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