choosing ideas

For me, creativity isn’t born when everything is tidy and separate. It comes from cross-pollination, unexpected combinations, and head-on collisions between things that don’t necessarily go together.

One form of originality is creation. Another form is synthesis.

People often focus so much on creating new ideas that they overlook the value of synthesizing ideas from different sources.

Innovation usually mean connecting previously unconnected concepts.

Curate to create, there’s no other way

There’s no creation without inspiration.

Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the world through their chosen medium. Whether that’s painting, writing, music or photography is irrelevant.

First and foremost, creators are curators .

They take it all in and reinterpret it in their own... See more

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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Synthesis is where taste develops.