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Published · transcript-backedKevin Kelly: belief
3 May 2023 Conversations with Tyler Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
“I think I advised someone when I was at Wired to accept to do some things that they were not inclined to do.”
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- Speaker
- Kevin Kelly
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- Claim type
- belief
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- 3 May 2023
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…What do you feel has been the worst piece of advice you ever gave? [laughs] Let’s see. Something that I changed my mind about, maybe? I think I advised someone when I was at Wired to accept to do some things that they were not inclined to do. “Do one for the team” kind of a thing. And I felt, in retrospect, that that was maybe dishonest, in the sense that I would not have done that myself. So I was advising somebody to do something that I would not have done. Maybe it was good for them, but I wasn’t certain about that. So I would say that was a bad piece of advice. Here’s a piece of advice; tell me if it’s good or bad: “Minimize deathbed regret.”…
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