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Experts should curate
Here are four criteria I suggest to help you decide exactly which nuggets of knowledge are worth keeping:
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they becom... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
The world has benefited greatly in the past from having information organized and made accessible. When information is organized, people can easily find similar ideas to build on top of, explore their curiosities, and discover new things. Knowledge is power, and organized information makes the attainment of knowledge far more efficient.The Research... See more
Dmitri Brereton (dkb) • To Organize The World's Information
We need to always be wary of accumulating so much information that we spend all our time managing it, instead of putting it to use in the outside world.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
What is the point of knowledge if it doesn’t help anyone or produce anything?
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
A quickly changing world requires that we take control of our own education, that we weave together our own curriculum from the countless sources we find online. The basic skill required to do this effectively is judgment. And judgment is exactly what curation helps you develop: every time you make a decision, choosing one article or phrase or imag
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