Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
In an era of information abundance, the ability to filter effectively has become a premium skill. Good taste is cultural literacy: knowing the right references, understanding history, and recognising what matters beneath the surface noise.
Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
One must seek Knowledge, but be a little wary of finding it. Perhaps excessive, but one could say the idea of possessing knowledge represents a kind of complacency. This is what Socrates meant: Once you think you know, you stop looking. You cease your wonder.
Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
curation is not just about collecting; it’s about connecting the dots.
Curators are like record labels for writers and authors.
They help me discover the stuff - I’m interested in - but that I would have never found otherwise.
Robin Goodsubstack.com…curators; like a museum curator pulling works together for an exhibition, they organize the avalanche of online content into something coherent and comprehensible, restoring missing context and building narratives. They highlight valuable things that we less-expert Internet surfers are likely to miss.
Kyle Chayka
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... See more
Maria Popova • Networked Knowledge and Combinatorial Creativity
Curiosity sherpas
To thrive in a future dominated by generative AI, individuals and organizations must prioritize the development of curation skills. This involves investing in training and education that emphasizes critical thinking, industry expertise, and communication.
Gleb Tsipursky: With the rise of AI, creativity shifts from generation to curation
3 critical skills for the future:
a. critical thinking
b. industry expertise
c. effective communication
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
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.