His range is wide, but all his work somehow rhymes.

“What I’m talking about is taking your interests seriously enough to have the courage to stay moving. You can give stuff away. You can abandon things. You can tolerate failure because you know that tomorrow there is more.”

“I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”

It was so much fun connecting with Kelly over these random little objects—I felt I was learning something about him I couldn’t through his books and blog posts

It was overcast and smelled like the ocean and eucalyptus.

So I spent the next 10 years chasing what seemed most fun.

interested in charting a different course to impact

and I didn’t get very long into my interview preparations to realize that I wasn’t only writing about a personal hero

I learned that Kelly doesn’t think in outputs. For him, doing is part of learning. “I don’t really pursue a destination,” he said. “I pursue a direction.”