Curation

As information volume and complexity grew, simply keeping pace became a specialized profession. In other words, information specialists who do nothing but track developments in more and more narrow domains emerge.

the critical skill of the future isn’t generating new ideas but curating those developed by generative AI. The role of idea curators will be crucial in discerning the most promising concepts, refining them to enhance their viability, and then promoting them to gain widespread acceptance.

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.

"The most credible form of advertising comes straight from the people we know and trust. Eighty-three percent of online respondents in 60 countries say they trust the recommendations of friends and family". - Nielsen 2015

Think about your own consumption habits. Do you actually want more news articles? Do you want more investment white papers? Or do you want one specific person, whose intellect and ethics you trust implicitly, to tell you, “Ignore the noise. Read these three things. They are the only ones that matter.”

That service—the removal of noise—is infinitely... See more

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

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

We often talk about thought leadership as if it’s a single skill—a mysterious art form you either possess or you don’t. This framing is not only inaccurate, but it’s also fundamentally disempowering for students and rising leaders. A far more accurate and actionable metaphor is that thought leadership is a form of cognitive fitness, and your... See more