Andrew McCluskey

The ingredients of ‘good’ curation

I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:

1. Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.


2. Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of

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Design is such a powerful word. It means everything and so means nothing. And our practice of design really was the whole thing. Ultimately, it was your experience. From the very founding ideas of what the product is and what it does and how it’s architected and how it’s built—its appearance is just one small part of the whole thing.

I have never come out of a situation where I was negative to or about someone else and felt better. Any time I have been disdainful of another person has ended with me wishing I had kept my mouth shut. Turns out that hurting people, even when I think I’m right, even if they “hurt me first”, just makes me feel worse, and made their life worse in the... See more

Despite working with DeFi teams for the last 5 years, I think onchain finance is a better name for whats happening.

Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.

Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.

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it seems that the connectivity the Internet has given us is predominantly vapid. Deep seeded consideration for our planet, each other and the miracle of existence is replaced by TikTok trends and AI companions.