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I think capitalism will not disappear, but it's going to increasingly not be the exclusive arbiter of economic life. It's going to have to find value in interacting with the sharing economy on many levels. And this hybrid system that's already emerging among millennials is going to be a mature system where, by midcentury, part of the day will be in the capitalist market, part of the day in the sharing economy, depending on your marginal costs.

- Jeremy Rifkin

Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.

- Stewart Brand

Show up. Keep showing up. Somebody successful said: 99% of success is just showing up.

- Kevin Kelly

Separate the processes of creation from improving. You can’t write and edit, or sculpt and polish, or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be unleashed from judgement.

- Kevin Kelly

Saving money and investing money are both good habits. Small amounts of money invested regularly for many decades without deliberation is one path to wealth.

- Kevin Kelly

Rule of 7 in research. You can find out anything if you are willing to go seven levels. If the first source you ask doesn’t know, ask them who you should ask next, and so on down the line. If you are willing to go to the 7th source, you’ll almost always get your answer.

- Kevin Kelly

Rule of 3 in conversation. To get to the real reason, ask a person to go deeper than what they just said. Then again, and once more. The third time’s answer is close to the truth.

- Kevin Kelly

Reading to your children regularly will bond you together and kickstart their imaginations.

- Kevin Kelly

Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.

- Kevin Kelly

Promptness is a sign of respect.

- Kevin Kelly

Perhaps the most counter-intuitive truth of the universe is that the more you give to others, the more you’ll get. Understanding this is the beginning of wisdom.

- Kevin Kelly

Over the long term, the future is decided by optimists. To be an optimist you don’t have to ignore all the many problems we create; you just have to imagine improving our capacity to solve problems.

- Kevin Kelly

Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.

- Kevin Kelly

On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first, bypassing the cities. You’ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote, and then later you’ll welcome the familiar comforts of a city on the way back.

- Kevin Kelly

Nobody is as smart as everybody.

- Kevin Kelly

Never use a credit card for credit. The only kind of credit, or debt, that is acceptable is debt to acquire something whose exchange value is extremely likely to increase, like in a home. The exchange value of most things diminishes or vanishes the moment you purchase them. Don’t be in debt to losers.

- Kevin Kelly

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

- Kevin Kelly

Learn how to take a 20-minute power nap without embarrassment.

- Kevin Kelly

Learn how to learn from those you disagree with, or even offend you. See if you can find the truth in what they believe.

- Kevin Kelly

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

- Kevin Kelly

If you lose or forget to bring a cable, adapter or charger, check with your hotel. Most hotels now have a drawer full of cables, adapters and chargers others have left behind, and probably have the one you are missing. You can often claim it after borrowing it.

- Kevin Kelly

If you desperately need a job, you are just another problem for a boss; if you can solve many of the problems the boss has right now, you are hired. To be hired, think like your boss.

- Kevin Kelly

If you are not falling down occasionally, you are just coasting.

- Kevin Kelly

If you are looking for something in your house, and you finally find it, when you’re done with it, don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.

- Kevin Kelly

I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong, and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.

- Kevin Kelly

How to apologize: Quickly, specifically, sincerely.

- Kevin Kelly

How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

- Kevin Kelly

Hatred is a curse that does not affect the hated. It only poisons the hater. Release a grudge as if it was a poison.

- Kevin Kelly

Gratitude will unlock all other virtues and is something you can get better at.

- Kevin Kelly

Over the next ten years, I predict, the mainstream of the environmental movement will reverse its opinion and activism in four major areas: population growth, urbanization, genetically engineered organisms, and nuclear power.

- Stewart Brand