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Tim Ferriss · 2024-07-10

Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly — The Tim Ferriss Show

Derek Sivers and Kevin Kelly — The Tim Ferriss Show

Recommended on this episode

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Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut (inferred)

“one of my favorite authors for people who aren't familiar check out cat's cradle perhaps as a starting point”
“Kurt vaget who's one of my favorite authors for people who aren't familiar check out cat's cradle perhaps as a starting point hilarious guy”— Tim Ferriss
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Vagabonding

Rolf Potts

“his book vagabonding which I just absolutely love”
“conversations I've had with Ral pots and also his book vagabonding which I just absolutely love and it was that book and Walden that I took with me”— Tim Ferriss
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The Adventures of Johnny Bunko

Daniel Pink

“if you know a young person who is just starting out hand them that book... it'll gives us like five great principles”
“there is a short graphic novel by Daniel pink called junco and it's career counsel advice it's aimed at young people”— Kevin Kelly
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So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

“there is a book that I'm recommending by C Newport is called so good that can't ignore you this changed my mind”
“there is a book that I'm recommending by C Newport is called so good that can't ignore you this changed my mind”— Kevin Kelly
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Shantaram

Gregory David Roberts (inferred)

“it'll be one of those books you that you wish will never end”
“shantam it might take me a way to explain this... you get a incredibly Vivid immersive deep and in some ways uplifting view of India”— Kevin Kelly
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Man on Wire

“the one documentary that I think everybody that I know have seen has loved it... it's just Transcendent it's just a beautiful movie”
“the one documentary that I think everybody that I know have seen has loved it is man on wire such a good movie”— Kevin Kelly
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The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters

“another great documentary that I love... it's just fantastic”
“another great documentary that I love because it's very unusual among mentaries and that it films the villain side of the whole thing as well which is king of Kong”— Kevin Kelly
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A State of Mind

“I only review ones that are great... these are fantastic”
“the third one is one that's not so well known it's called state of mind and it's about the spectacles in North Korea”— Kevin Kelly

The guest's own work

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The 4-Hour Body

Tim Ferriss

“I actually recommended ag1 in my 2010 best seller more than a decade ago the 4-Hour Body and I did not get paid to do so”— Tim Ferriss
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How to Live

Derek Sivers

“author of books on philosophy and Entrepreneurship including how to live hell yeah or no anything you want and useful not true”— Tim Ferriss
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Hell Yeah or No

Derek Sivers

“author of books on philosophy and Entrepreneurship including how to live hell yeah or no anything you want and useful not true”— Tim Ferriss
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Anything You Want

Derek Sivers

“author of books on philosophy and Entrepreneurship including how to live hell yeah or no anything you want and useful not true”— Tim Ferriss
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Useful Not True

Derek Sivers

“author of books on philosophy and Entrepreneurship including how to live hell yeah or no anything you want and useful not true”— Tim Ferriss
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The 4-Hour Workweek

Tim Ferriss

“I love the timing for when I read 4our work week because it was actually just after I had done this like complete delegation of everything”— Derek Sivers
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Excellent Advice for Living

Kevin Kelly

“best-selling author of books on technology and culture including excellent advice for living the inevitable what technology wants and Vanishing Asia”— Tim Ferriss
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The Inevitable

Kevin Kelly

“best-selling author of books on technology and culture including excellent advice for living the inevitable what technology wants and Vanishing Asia”— Tim Ferriss
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What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

“best-selling author of books on technology and culture including excellent advice for living the inevitable what technology wants and Vanishing Asia”— Tim Ferriss
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Vanishing Asia

Kevin Kelly

“what technology wants and Vanishing Asia his three volume photo book set capturing West Central and East Asia”— Tim Ferriss
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What Technology Wants

Kevin Kelly

“I just wrote a book called what technology wants excellent book I highly recommend it it was a theory of technology”— Kevin Kelly
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Cool Tools

Kevin Kelly

“this is a one of the many resources that I recommend in my book Cool Tools and Cool Tools is a big catalog of possibilities that has about 1500 different items”— Kevin Kelly
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1,000 True Fans

Kevin Kelly

“all the way to 1,000 true fans which of course you know I sort of shout from the rooftops for people to read”— Tim Ferriss
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True Films

Kevin Kelly

“I actually have a book called true films which is the 200 best documentries that you should see”— Kevin Kelly

Also referenced (named, not recommended)

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Vanilla Sky

“luckily with lovely coincidence that night that I booked the flight to Hawaii I watched the movie Vanilla Sky and in Vanilla Sky Tom Cruz is like the owner”— Derek Sivers
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The Whole Earth Catalog

Stewart Brand (inferred)

“I worked for a nonprofit at $10 an hour which was the whole earth catalog which had been a kind of a lifelong dream”— Kevin Kelly
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Walden

Henry David Thoreau (inferred)

“building your house on the pond like the row mhm a hero of mine in high school is not just a simple exercise it's a profound exercise”— Kevin Kelly
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Wall Street

“many people subscribe to the belief along the lines of Charlie Sheen in the movie Wall Street when he's asks what he's going to do when he makes his millions”— Tim Ferriss
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Futurama

Matt Groening (inferred)

“I have a countdown clock that Matt groining at Futurama was inspired and they did a little episode of Futurama about”— Kevin Kelly
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This American Life (Jerusalem episode)

Ira Glass (inferred)

“listen to one of the very first this American lives which I on I glass and I told the story for the very first time”— Kevin Kelly
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Searching for Bobby Fischer

“Josh was the basis for searching for Bobby fiser the book in the movie worldclass chess player also a very deep Soulful guy”— Tim Ferriss
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Pang (Hang) handpan drum

“if anyone out there can get me a pan art hang I would really love to hear from you”— Tim Ferriss
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iPhone 5

Apple (inferred)

“I'm not a mobile person my first smartphone was an iPhone 5 and I still not using it properly I use it for phone calls”— Kevin Kelly
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The New York Times (paper edition)

The New York Times

“one of the first things I do is I read the paper version of The New York Times it's a kind of like a so what I call a guilty pleasure”— Kevin Kelly
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Uline storage bins

Uline

“if you go on like Uline or somewhere these container businesses they have these racks of bins so I filled an entire wall of hundreds and hundreds of bins”— Kevin Kelly