Expected and Unexpected
March 6, 2025 • #Kevin Kelly on the unexpected and expected.
Kevin Kelly on the unexpected and expected.
A regular tradition, 101 more pieces of advice from the inimitable Kevin Kelly.
Kevin Kelly:
Scenius is like genius, only embedded in a scene rather than in genes. Brian Eno suggested the word to convey the extreme creativity that groups, places or “scenes” can occasionally generate. His actual definition is: “Scenius stands for the intelligence and the intuition of a whole cultural scene. It is the communal form of the concept of the genius.”
“Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” — Clay Shirky
A phenomenal list of useful maxims from Wired's Kevin Kelly.