All episodes of The Next Big Idea

The Next Big Idea · 2025-07-03 · 51 min · 8,896 words

Best Of: Life Lessons From Wired Co-Founder Kevin Kelly

Listen to the original audio · Transcribed with NVIDIA Parakeet · Why times can differ in your player

Hey folks, with the holiday weekend upon us, we thought we'd take a breather and and share one of our favorite episodes from the archives. It's a conversation with Kevin Kelly. Hey there, Caleb. What are you doing here? Hey, Rufus, I thought I'd join you on mic this week.

Wonderful. I'm delighted to be joined. So as I was saying, this week we're resharing a conversation that you had a couple years ago with Wired magazine's co-founder, Kevin Kelly, about his book, Excellent Advice for Living. I love Kevin Kelly. He spent years writing and collecting more than 400 aphorisms from his extraordinary life.

Yeah, these are things like enthusiasm is worth 25 IQ points. Or it's thrilling to be rudely polite to complete strangers, which I found to be true. Never wear a hat that has more character than you do. Whoops. So we invited Kevin to tell us a few of his favorites.

That is the first couple of minutes. The rest is $1.49.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (51 minutes, 8,896 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

Have credits? Log in See plans

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.

get it now

Ready in under two minutes.

credits never expire

Packs go up to 1,000 episodes. Need more? Email contact@podmenti.com and we will make you one.

One episode is up to 4 hours of audio; a longer one counts as one more for every started 4 hours. Secure checkout by Stripe. Paying once needs no account: we create one from your email. By paying you agree to the terms.