Kevin Kelly's Book Recommendations

"By the end of the book, I decided to drop out of school. I never returned. It was the best decision of my life."

"A hugely underappreciated book. I remember all kinds of things from it."

"@jasoncrawford @twang @jamescham @dscheinm @ev A hugely underappreciated book. I remember all kinds of things from it."

"Kevin Kelly recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book."

"About the hippy origins of the personal computer industry."

"Over the years, I kept finding myself returning to its insights, and each time I would arrive at them at a deeper level."

"There is nothing that I enjoy more than at night reading Rumi."

"What you really want to do is to master something and to use your mastering of something as a way to get to your passion."

"I actually gave it a whole page in my book 'Cool Tools' because I thought the message was so profound."

"[The author]’s clarifying insight—that mind and intelligence can overcome any physical limitations, and are therefore the only scarce resource—has become a big idea that colors much of what I look at today."

"A really good book."

"This story of a singularity always stuck with me as something to prepare for."

"While reading this classic poetic ode to America and possibilities ('I am multitude!') my gasket blew, and I became seized with an unstoppable urge to travel."

"Read it through. It’s an amazing book."

"While reading this classic poetic ode to America and possibilities ('I am multitude!') my gasket blew, and I became seized with an unstoppable urge to travel."

"It's a cartoon, basically, and it's aimed at young people as trying to teach them how to become indispensable."

"Probably the most amazing thing you haven’t read yet."

"You get an incredibly vivid, immersive, deep, and in some ways uplifting view of India and the underworld in India, into that part of Asia."

"Gave me a mathematical framework for my own spirituality."

"[This book] curiously led me to Jesus. [The author]'s stance of radical honesty prompted me to attempt the same. It started my spiritual awakening."