The hope is that one day blockchain-based social media and community tools can create a portable resume or data set that will allow one to take one’s curiosity and obsession data from platform to platform; for now though, creating holistic cross-platform portraits of experts is key. Allowing active discourse participants / future experts to share... See more

Different disciplines give different weights to each one of these four sources of information. In fashion, most listen to their intuitions, while a small set of others may read Vanessa Friedman or Tim Blanks. When choosing restaurants, some consult Yelp, while others consult the Infatuation, and others go with what Pete Wells recommends. In fine... See more

The intent of this piece is not to deride public opinion; the goal of this piece is instead to figure out the pros and cons of each of the typical four sources of information (public opinion, experts, personal networks, intuition) one uses to make decisions, in order to create repeatable processes of organizing information that combine the best of... See more

As web3 rightfully peels back the curtain on the processes and systems that control our digital universe, curatorial governance feels like a topic that will shape the next decade of digital life. Curatorial governance refers to the formalized set of processes, rules, and principles that are used to assign different amounts of value to different... See more

When determining whether a cultural object has value, is it best to trust:

“The curator is someone who insists on value, and who makes it, whether or not it actually exists,” says David Balzer, author of Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else.

However, this greater time spent thinking also causes experts to be more rigid and dogmatic in their thinking. This combined with the ivory tower that experts can sometimes live in can result in them completely overlooking important, left-field new ideas.

When analyzing the wisdom of the crowd, it’s easy to forget that opinions are not independent, and that social media is very driven by first mover opinions and “influencers”.

One’s network or