Kevin Kelly: 101 Additional Advices(kk.org)

https://kk.org/thetechnium/101-additional-advices/

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I love Kevin Kelly, but I really wished he would have done more with his recent book "Excellent Advice For Living" which is essentially a similar list of extremely brief "advices". They are all excellent, but it's an overwhelming list of nuggets of wisdom without any context or stories or anything else for the mind to process. So I end up going from point to point and quickly burn out on what quickly becomes a shopping list of unrelated wisdom points.

If this had just been a calendar of a point of wisdom per day that you can ponder, that would have been much better. Or better yet, a book with short chapters that elaborate on each point with a story so that your mind has the time and context to absorb it.

Hopefully he does that at some point, because there are a lot of gems here which are underserved in the no-context list format.

0823498723498722 anni fa

stick 'em in a fortune(6) file?

> The best way to criticize something is to make something better. —KK

eru2 anni fa

> Whenever you hug someone, be the last to let go.

Well, that one doesn't survive Kant's golden rule.

3170702 anni fa

It does when the hug is metaphorical!

0823498723498722 anni fa

Whenever you hug someone, don't let go before the other person does?

(is it just me, or in general is it true that many things work better with reflexive relations than irreflexive?)

solarized2 anni fa

i'm thinking to write this kind of things as blogs to my kids. Suddenly i found it in HN. what a beautiful days. :star

glennonymous2 anni fa

102. Eschew advice books.