{"id":244364,"date":"2026-09-22T09:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/kevin-kelly-on-wisdom-and-excellent-advice-for-living"},"modified":"2026-09-22T09:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T14:02:22","slug":"kevin-kelly-on-wisdom-and-excellent-advice-for-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/kevin-kelly-on-wisdom-and-excellent-advice-for-living","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

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2009, almost nobody in the singularity crowd wanted to talk about wisdom. The conversation was all about how and when. Rarely why.<\/p>\n

Back in 2023, I sat down with Kevin Kelly for the third time. Co-founder of Wired, co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, and the most stubborn optimist I know. He had just written Excellent Advice for Living, 450 proverbs he wished someone had handed him earlier.<\/p>\n

I brought him the question that still bothers me most: our power keeps growing faster than our #wisdom. What happens when that gap gets wide enough to swallow us?<\/p>\n

Kevin has a definition of wisdom I haven\u2019t been able to shake. It turns on time, and on how many people you\u2019re willing to take into account.<\/p>\n

From there we went everywhere. Christianity and creationism. Selfies, Zoom and narcissism. The cult of personality in the East versus the West. Whether #AI, nuclear weapons, or climate change really qualify as existential risks. I won\u2019t tell you where a radical optimist lands on that one.<\/p>\n

Three years later, with AI moving faster than anyone\u2019s ethics, the conversation feels less like #futurism and more like a to-do list.<\/p>\n

Continue reading \u201cKevin Kelly on Wisdom and Excellent Advice for Living\u201d | ><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2009, almost nobody in the singularity crowd wanted to talk about wisdom. The conversation was all about how and when. Rarely why. Back in 2023, I sat down with Kevin Kelly for the third time. Co-founder of Wired, co-chair of The Long Now Foundation, and the most stubborn optimist I know. He had just written [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":737,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,30,12,9,873,6,64,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-ethics","category-existential-risks","category-military","category-nuclear-energy","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/737"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}