Kevin Kelly: recommendation

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…You said that to Noah Smith in that interview. But if I’m a young person and then I say, “Well, how do I operationalize that? What do I do in the morning? Do I put that on my LinkedIn profile?” How do they make that concrete? Yes. Basically, it’s what you’re not doing. It’s not going to be instant, but it’s a journey. That’s a really important thing — is that the general drift of one’s life is going to be a direction rather than a destination. I think you say, “Well, accounting — things that I know about — are things that are probably not where I should be headed. Even though I may start there, that’s not where I really want to go.” I make another piece of advice, which is, “It doesn’t really matter where you really begin, because that’s not where you’re going to end up. ” The idea is, “Well, I might study accounting, but I intend not to dwell there for very long, because I want to head out into the frontier where there’s something. ” I would say it’s an ongoing process where you’re asking yourself, “Is this someone else’s idea of success? What’s buried in me that I can do that may be a little bit different than others?” Now, when you were in your twenties, you hitchhiked to work, I understand. Do you advise the same to your grandkids (or forthcoming grandkids)?…

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