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Kevin Kelly on a different way to do great work
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By Brie Wolfson
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June 2025
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[026_KevinK]
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PHOTOS BY ANDRIA LO
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Kevin Kelly isn’t known for one “big thing,” and doesn’t aspire to be. He’s as
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intelligent, hard-working, ambitious, and prescient as history’s most iconic
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entrepreneurs—only without any interest in building a unicorn himself. Instead,
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in his words, he works “Hollywood style”—in a series of creative projects. What
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follows is a sampling of his life’s work.
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Kelly was an editor for the Whole Earth Catalog in the early 1980s, helped
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start WELL, one of the first online communities, in 1985, and co-founded WIRED
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magazine in 1993. He’s written a dozen books and published hundreds of essays
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on topics from art to optimism, travel, religion, creativity, and AI (even
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before it was a thing). Kelly rode a bicycle across the United States in his
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20s. He was Steven Spielberg’s ‘futurist advisor’ on Minority Report, and the
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inspiration behind the famous “Death Clock” on Futurama, after the show’s
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creator Matt Groening caught wind of the Life Countdown Clock Kelly keeps on
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his computer desktop. He organizes tightly curated group walks across Asia and
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Europe, regularly covering ~100km in a week. He sculpts, draws, paints, and
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photographs. And he’s a longtime friend and collaborator of Stewart Brand
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(whose famous line, “Stay hungry, stay foolish,” Steve Jobs quoted in his
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iconic commencement address at Stanford).
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To encourage long-term thinking, Kelly is helping build a clock into a mountain
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in western Texas that will tick for 10,000 years. Brian Eno and Jeff Bezos are
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active collaborators. He’s a born-again Christian. He’s been married to his
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wife, Gia-Miin, for 38 years, and they have three children together. He was
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pivotal to a fringe-turned-mainstream movement to identify and catalog every
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living species on earth (now owned and operated by Smithsonian). He was early
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to think and write about the quantified self, which gave rise to products like
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Fitbit, Strava, Apple Watch, Eight Sleep, and the Oura Ring. Kelly’s idea of
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“1,000 true fans” practically christened the creator economy with his 2008
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insight that “if 1,000 people will pay you $100 per year, you can gross
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$100k—more than enough to live on for most.”
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The people who become legendary in their interests never feel they have
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arrived.
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Kevin Kelly
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Naval Ravikant has called him a “modern-day Socrates,” Marc Andreessen has said
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that “everything Kevin Kelly writes is worth reading,” Eno called him “one of
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the most consistently provocative thinkers about technology and culture,” and
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Ray Kurzweil said that “Kevin Kelly understands the direction of technology
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better than almost anyone I know.”
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Kelly’s Hollywood style of working has always resonated with me; it’s the way I
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aspire to work and largely have since starting my career. Yet now, 15 years in,
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I’ve become self-conscious about it. Working in Silicon Valley will convince
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you that starting a company with its sights on unicorn status is the only
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possible way to make an impact, and the only work worthy of an ambitious
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individual.
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Kelly is a cheerful and enterprising repudiation of that path, and I didn’t get
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very long into my interview preparations to realize that I wasn’t only writing
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about a personal hero; I was seeking a way to make peace with my own
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professional choices. After a day together, I realized that my pilgrimage to
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meet the man in his element might also grant permission to others in our line
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of work who are interested in charting a different course to impact.
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[009_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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[015_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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I started my career at Google selling AdWords to small businesses, and finished
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my first quarter as the number three seller in North America. Professional
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opportunities immediately unfolded—early nods for management, trips to global
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offices to present my “best practices,” my face on slides next to impressive
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metrics, and attention from more senior leaders.
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It’s hard to say why none of that seemed very interesting, but it didn’t. What
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I did like was starting a campaign to rename the conference rooms and helping
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my coworker launch his internal content series, G-Chat with Charleton, in which
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he would interview Google executives while sitting with them in a two-person
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snuggie. I had earned myself a ticket to the fast career track at one of the
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coolest companies in Silicon Valley, but climbing the corporate ladder just
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wasn’t for me.
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So I spent the next 10 years chasing what seemed most fun. After 14 months at
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Google, my work bestie, Jenny, and I left Google together to give the startup
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thing a try. We went to a mobile gaming company where I learned to make my way
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around spreadsheets, play Magic: The Gathering, and cash in on a blockbuster
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‘pet hotel’ game. Eighteen months later, it was a six-person startup that was
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known as “the black sheep of Y Combinator.” In my free time, I coached a JV
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high school soccer team, volunteered at Dandelion Chocolate (all that working
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on software made me want to make something with my hands), and finished writing
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a novel.
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My resume of under-two-year gigs spooked recruiters, except for one at Stripe.
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“We’re impressed by how much ground you’ve covered,” was the backhanded
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compliment I got. I started on the Account Management team in early 2015.
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I spent nearly five years at Stripe, but the lily-padding continued—only this
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time it was all under one roof. A year into my tenure, I was given the choice
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between management or a nebulous role focusing on projects that would impact
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company culture. Like evolving our tradition of work anniversary celebrations,
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standing up company planning, establishing Stripe as a carbon-neutral company,
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getting non-developers to participate in our annual hackathon, defining our
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version of the “bar raiser” interview, and printing and distributing a book
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(which eventually became Stripe Press). With very little pressing, I learned
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this nebulous role had emerged from the growing pile of projects that the
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former McKinsey consultants on the Business Operations team were avoiding.
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Guess which role my friends and parents thought I should choose? Guess which
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one I chose.
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Kelly would say it’s good to have an “illegible” career path—it means
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you’re onto interesting stuff.
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I started to take pride in this “cool girl” approach to work. I joked about
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having never been promoted, but could feel my scope, impact, and relationships
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with colleagues growing. I remember rejecting a (well-meaning) manager’s
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suggestion to build out a five-year career plan. I scoffed at people who cared
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about titles, did things for money, and had professional headshots on their
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LinkedIn. I mocked MBAs, bragged about “staying off the org chart,” and being
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good at “giving away my LEGOs.” I became the person you asked to have a coffee
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with when you wanted to quit your job and do something weird. Once I mentioned
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“enjoying working in the wings,” and a (well-meaning) executive suggested I
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“keep that to myself if I wanted to be seen as a leader.” I ignored the advice.
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And then, I’m not sure when the switch flipped, but I started to have a sinking
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feeling that I had it all wrong the whole time. I looked around and felt I was
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being outpaced by my colleagues—specifically by the MBAs and the people who
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chased titles, promotions, money, and building teams. And it wasn’t just a
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vanity thing. They genuinely seemed to be focused on bigger, more interesting
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problems. And they were having more impact. They were mentoring young talent,
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influencing top lines and bottom lines, and had their fingerprints on all kinds
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of cool industry-recognized work. They seemed to always have invitations to
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exclusive gatherings and job offers in their inbox. Several started companies,
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and rumor had it that some had term sheets before investors even opened their
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decks. I didn’t only feel jealous of their work; I felt unqualified to do it.
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That stung.
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I started to reflect on my own trajectory with fear that it didn’t mirror my
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ambition, work ethic, or deep care about the role of work in a life. Had I
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pointed my ambition in the wrong direction? What did I have to show for all my
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effort? Had I made some irreversible, unforced error with my career? How much
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money had I left on the table? Would the people I respected respect me back for
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much longer? Despite working my butt off for a decade, I had no expertise and
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no line of sight into where I was going. I felt immature for placing such a
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high value on “fun” and “bouncing around,” and full of regret about not picking
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a lane (or even better, a ladder). It had become hard to explain what I was
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good at—most importantly to myself. My sister had recently made partner at a
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prestigious law firm, and it seemed easier for my parents to be proud of her
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than of me. I couldn’t really blame them.
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Kevin Kelly would say it’s good to have an “illegible” career path—it means
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you’re onto interesting stuff. But I wasn’t so sure anymore.
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[041_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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[047_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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I pull up to Kelly’s Pacifica, California studio—the last house at the very
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edge of Vallemar off Route 1. It’s a big, barn-looking structure pressed up
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against a steep hill, which is covered in wild flowers and towering trees. It
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was overcast and smelled like the ocean and eucalyptus. The only way I knew I’d
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come to the right place was the very small sign on the door that read “kk.org,”
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on which I’ve spent dozens of hours over the years.
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Stepping inside, I felt like I’d time-traveled back to the early 1990s and
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entered my little brother’s dream bedroom. There were huge LEGO towers, K’nex
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sculptures hanging from the ceiling, and a massive wall of books spanning two
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floors. Most of the books were faded from use or sunlight, the dust jackets
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bent, and they were all stacked and tilted in a way that suggested they’d
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actually been read. There were knickknacks piled up everywhere, and even more
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haphazardly tucked into bins or captured in jars.
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It was hardly the image of a futurist’s office, and in sharp contrast to the
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Japandi workspaces you see going viral on X. Yet despite the sheer amount of
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stuff lying around in Kelly’s haven, nothing appeared like junk. Every object
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seemed to vibrate with meaning, begging you to ask, “What’s this for?” or
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“Where’d you get that?”
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As I was scanning the lower rungs of the bookshelf, Kelly materialized on the
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indoor balcony and invited me upstairs to talk. He was wearing socks that were
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way too big—the spaces where his toes should have been were empty and flopped
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around in front of him—and his pants were stained from actual paint (i.e., not
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in the Rag & Bone way).
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As I walked up the stairs, I asked him what the oldest object in the studio
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was, but he immediately deflected. No interest in nostalgia from the futurist,
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I guessed.
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I slowed down as I walked by the second-floor wall of knickknacks and started
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scanning. Kelly caught me doing so, pulled some leather doohickey about the
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size of my hand off the shelf, and handed it to me.
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“What do you think this is?” he asked. I twirled it around and desperately
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wanted to answer correctly, but figured that wasn’t the point. Still, I fumbled
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around nervously and couldn’t even eke out a guess. Probably sensing my
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anxiety, Kelly jumped in. “It’s a leather cap for an eagle.” He got it in
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Mongolia where there’s a tradition of using eagles to hunt, he explained. Now
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things were feeling looser. I got the feeling I could pull this thread about
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the Mongolian eagles or get another story. Kelly made my decision for me when
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he directed my attention to a small jar containing a little creature’s bones.
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“This is from a bird that flew into that window,” he said, pointing to a window
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over his desk. I nodded along with enthusiasm. “I freeze-dried them!” he said
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proudly.
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We strolled over to his desk, where he asked me to try to lift a small but
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dense ball that was sitting on the floor next to it. I could barely get it
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above my ankle. Kelly told me it was made out of tungsten. “It has a similar
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density to gold,” he continued. “Now every time you see a criminal in the
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movies running away with a bag of tungsten, you’ll know how unrealistic it is.”
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Greatness is overrated. It’s a form of extremism, and it comes with extreme
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vices that I have no interest in.
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Kevin Kelly
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It was so much fun connecting with Kelly over these random little objects—I
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felt I was learning something about him I couldn’t through his books and blog
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posts; like I was getting to the real spirit he brings to his life and work.
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But before I could think too much, we were onto the next.
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There was a train track running along the wall, just below the ceiling, and I
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asked if it worked. I half-expected him to yell, “Alexa, start your engines!”
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Instead, Kelly walked over to his desk and picked up a controller and turned it
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on. Nothing happened. He replaced the batteries, gave the controller a smack
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like it was a Nintendo 64 cartridge, and tried again. The train, looking like
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something my dad might have built at the model shop down the street in the 60s,
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immediately started choo-chooing around the room. Kelly stood and smiled
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proudly again as he watched it go. Eventually we took our seats next to his
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desk to talk.
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I started off by asking him whether there is a unifying theme to his seemingly
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diffuse life’s work, which has included old-school magazines and books,
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bleeding-edge technology, conservationism, photographing Asia, and teaching.
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“Following my interests,” he said simply.
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It sounded awfully cutesy for someone so accomplished. I said that there is an
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idiosyncratic magic to the way he follows his interests, which is that they’re
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not just an input; Kelly turns his interests into an output that he can share
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with others. When I asked if I was onto something, I learned that Kelly doesn’t
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think in outputs. For him, doing is part of learning. “I don’t really pursue a
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destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”
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I asked him the difference between “following your interests” and being
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scatterbrained or having shiny object syndrome, like I sometimes worry I do.
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“The people who become legendary in their interests never feel they have
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arrived,” he said. When he talked about the power of passion and obsession in
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that process, I asked him if passion is enough. “Enough for what?” he asked,
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somewhat rhetorically. He had an impression of what I meant. “I think one of
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the least interesting reasons to be interested in something is money,” he said,
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and cited Walt Disney. “We don’t make movies to make money. We make money to
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make more movies.”
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Money isn’t actually what I meant, but I appreciated that he took the
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conversation there. I let the silence hang for a minute before he continued.
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“What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the
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courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You
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can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”
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I asked Kelly about the tradeoffs of focusing on a single thing if you want to
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be great (which is what I had been getting at before). “Greatness is
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overrated,” he said, and I perked up. “It’s a form of extremism, and it comes
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with extreme vices that I have no interest in. Steve Jobs was a jerk. Bob Dylan
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is a jerk.”
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The way Kelly approaches work differently was starting to come into focus.
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[051_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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[011_KevinKelly041725_Colossus_photobyAndriaLo-scaled]
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Accounts of people pursuing their life’s work often include phrases like
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“maniacal focus” or “relentless pursuit.” I hear investors say they’re looking
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for founders with “a chip on their shoulder.” Facebook’s iconic “Little Red
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Book” from 2012, which still serves as a pillar for peak tech culture, features
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a full-page spread that says “Greatness and comfort rarely coexist.”
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A recent xeet from Reid Hoffman reads, “If a founder brags about having ‘a
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balanced life,’ I assume they’re not serious about winning.” Jensen Huang says
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he wants to “torture people into greatness.” When I was on the job hunt many
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years ago, an investor was pitching one of his portfolio companies by saying,
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with a wink, that the founder would do “whatever it takes to win.” I genuinely
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didn’t know what he meant by that, but it sent a shudder down my spine. Once I
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heard a serial founder say he started his second company “out of chaos and
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revenge.” I heard about another prominent CEO that looks in the mirror every
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morning and asks himself, “Why do you suck so much?” I read a biography of Elon
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Musk; he seems tortured. There’s some rumor floating around about how Sam
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Altman was so focused on building his first startup that he only ate ramen and
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got scurvy. [96]According to Altman, “I never got tested but I think (I had
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it). I had extreme lethargy, sore legs, and bleeding gums.”
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Compared to this, Kelly’s version of doing his life’s work seems so joyful, so
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buoyant. So much less … angsty. There’s no suffering or ego. It’s not about
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finding a hole in the market or a path to global domination. The yard stick
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isn’t based on net worth or shareholder value or number of users or employees.
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It’s based on an internal satisfaction meter, but not in a self-indulgent way.
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He certainly seeks resonance and wants to make an impact, but more in the way
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of a teacher. He breathes life into products or ideas, not out of a desire to
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win, but out of a desire to advance our collective thinking or action. His work
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and its impact unfold slowly, rather than by sheer force of will. Ideas or
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projects seem to tug at him, rather than reveal themselves on the other end of
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an internal cattle prod. His range is wide, but all his work somehow rhymes. It
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clearly comes very naturally for him to work this way, but it’s certainly not
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the norm.
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If this is a way of living and working that’s available to all of us, why do we
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fetishize the white-knuckling and pain?
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I know I’m not the first person to have the brilliant idea that we can do
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better work when we like it. I know that the whole “find your passion” movement
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fell flat in its naivete. But I think somewhere along the way, the message
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about what it feels like to be great has become a bit perverted.
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A few years ago, I forced myself to try and write down a professional goal.
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After several hours of forced meditation on the topic, all I could muster was
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“have a good day, most days.” And don’t get me wrong, by “good day” I don’t
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the night (it happened multiple times writing this piece). And yet, I imagined
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sharing my ambition to “have a good day, most days” in a job interview—and
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But there I was, in front of a personal hero, whose most striking quality is
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it? And I don’t mean in the masochistic sense.
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I thought I was here to go deep on working Hollywood style, but as I sat there
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the most interesting thing about him is that he seems happy. At ease in the
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world and in his skin. I wasn’t there with Kelly for permission to work
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Hollywood style. I was there for permission to work with both ambition and joy.
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If this is a way of living and working that’s available to all of us, why
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do we fetishize the white-knuckling and pain?
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This shouldn’t make us defensive or self-conscious, but it does. I, like many
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others, want to be great. I want to feel commitment and camaraderie and work
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hard and be my best and impact top and bottom lines. But I don’t want to also
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feel tormented or be tortured into greatness or look in the mirror and wonder
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why I suck. But what does that say about me?
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I want more role models like Kevin Kelly. People that proudly whistle while
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they work. Who have boundless energy and healthy gums. Whose enthusiasm is
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contagious. Who are well-adjusted and emotionally regulated. Who have solid
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relationships and happy families. Who are hungry and impactful and care deeply,
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without being jerks. And I want more people to talk about these qualities with
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respect and reverence.
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I have never been a billionaire or built a unicorn, so I can’t speak with any
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conviction about what it requires. I won’t be eulogized anywhere important and
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no one 300 years from now will talk about what great things I did. But I want
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to live in a world where you can have an impact and be happy. Maybe that’s
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naive, but I’m sticking to it.
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All of this occurs naturally to Kelly, and he doesn’t have complicated feelings
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about it. I’m hoping to get there myself by channeling him more. “The more you
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pursue interests,” he told me on the good day we spent together, “the more you
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realize that the well is bottomless.”
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