Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
It’s how you build with the same pieces that everyone else has; this is what makes you unique.
How to become dangerously articulate
We are living through the emergence of a new business category which I believe will become an important part of our digital lives: community-curated knowledge networks
(a thread on why) https://t.co/ZNg3FHiGUD
The winning strategies over the next decade will not be those that maximize short-term AI deployment. They will be those that build and maintain access to high-quality information flows—genuine human expertise, carefully curated training corpora, institutional knowledge that has not been corrupted by synthetic recursion.
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
I think of taste like a radar. As you move through the world, your radar scans and picks up on what aligns.
Holly Meredith Bossung • The Art of Personal Taste
What aligns is what resonates with your values, perspective and ideals. Taste is the way you adopt, represent and show such resonance.
not letting algorithms decide what deserves your attention. If you want to feel creatively and intellectually alive, stop mindlessly consuming the internet and start mindfully curating it. You need a space away from social media's compulsive rhythm, where your ideas can grow at their own pace
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
Algorithmic mediocrity has triggered a renaissance of human discernment, with consumers seeking trusted curators, insider communities, and editorial voices that offer genuine discovery.
There will always be creators. But the ones who stand out in this era are also curators. People who filter their worldview so cleanly that you want to see through their eyes. People who make you feel sharper just by paying attention to what they pay attention to.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
The richest insights are found in overlooked sources and connections that are beyond the reach of the internet and the incentives of its curatorial algorithms. My inspiration comes from unexpected places: the yellowed pages of out-of-print software books, modern science fiction essays, the writings of early religious leaders, and unique items in... See more
terrain.com • Design Literacy
The problem - and the reason the Vibe Coding Paradox comes up - is because we live in an age where it is possible to hack our way to attention without having to do the hard work needed to build trust.
With that, we misunderstand attention as value. But without trust, it really isn’t.
In an age of mass production, curation and taste matter more.
AI... See more
With that, we misunderstand attention as value. But without trust, it really isn’t.
In an age of mass production, curation and taste matter more.
AI... See more