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Kevin Kelly is the the co-founder of the magazine Wired. He is also an artist and author of 14 books. He also has a good newsletter called Cool Tools.

He's also popular for sharing 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice on his 68th birthday, which turned into a book: Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

He also gave 101 more advices when he turned 73 recently.

In the Knowledge Project podcast, he shares the value of deadlines:

"It took me a long time to figure out that I needed deadlines. Deadlines were the difference between a dream and something that you complete.

And what happens with deadlines is that you’ve got to ship, you have to abandon the project, and it’s not perfect. Because it’s not perfect, you kind of have to be ingenious about making it a little different.

And I find that the deadlines force me to make decisions that you don’t have enough time [for]; you never have enough time. And so you think of something to—I wouldn’t say it’s a shortcut—you think of a way to finish it, and those little decisions are what make it a little different."

And on changing someone's mind

The best way to have any hope of changing someone’s mind is to try to listen and truly understand why they think what they’re thinking and how they got there. You can’t reason someone out of a notion that they didn’t reason themselves into.