Kevin Kelly's books
Source: https://influences.sgit.ai/register/kevin-kelly/index.html↗ · markdown twin of the entry page.
An influence on Dinis Cruz — one of 25 entries in his register.
- tier stated — on Dinis Cruz's list, thin or absent in the corpus, awaiting his briefing document
- kind books
- status stub — blocks 1 and 3, plus the research plan — awaiting Dinis Cruz's briefing document
- briefing requested
On Dinis Cruz's list, with no corpus evidence and three candidate anchors. The interesting question is whether the technium connects to Wardley's evolution axis or merely rhymes with it.
Block 1 — The anchor
What Technology Wants (2010), The Inevitable (2016), or 1,000 True Fans (2008) — Kevin Kelly
Three candidates, none confirmed. They are quite different books and the entry reads differently depending which one did the shaping — N2 ↗.
Linked, never rehosted.
Block 2 — In his own words
One connection is worth flagging precisely so that it can be knocked down: the technium's claim that technologies evolve along paths with their own momentum is structurally close to Wardley's evolution axis ↗ — the most heavily traced influence in this register. If Dinis Cruz read Kelly first, that is a lineage. If he read Wardley first, it is a coincidence that looks like one. The register cannot tell the difference and should not guess, which is why the edge between them is not drawn on the map ↗.
Block 3 — The principle
(hypothesis) Technology is an evolutionary system with its own tendencies — some directions are pushed on us by what has already been built, rather than chosen.
Stated as a hypothesis because the source is Kelly's public argument, not Dinis Cruz's account of what he took from it.
Block 7 — The wider library
- What Technology Wants (2010) — the technium argument in full
- The Inevitable (2016) — twelve forces, framed as things already in motion
- 1,000 True Fans (2008) — the essay, published free — a different argument entirely, about who has to like your work https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/ ↗
- Out of Control (1994) — the earliest and strangest of them; decentralised systems before it was a genre
Awaiting the briefing document
Named by Dinis Cruz, absent from the corpus. Kelly's books are widely read and it would be easy to write a plausible entry from public material — which is precisely what this tier exists to stop.
Research plan. Confirm which book, or which combination, in N2 ↗. Then: check Dinis Cruz's conference talks for technium framing, and test the Wardley-evolution connection against whichever came first in his reading. The earlier blog material is the place to look (R3 ↗).
The corpus evidence
None. This influence is on Dinis Cruz's own list and the corpus scan found nothing to attach to it — which is the definition of the STATED tier.
CC BY 4.0 — Dinis Cruz, with AI co-authorship (Claude, Anthropic). The anchor work belongs to its author and is linked, not licensed here.
source: /register/sinek-golden-circle/index.md