Curation

This requires a different kind of intellect. It requires a broad historical context (to know what has happened before), a deep ethical framework (to know what should happen), and the courage of conviction (to stand by your selection).

the critical skill of the future is not 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 promoting them to gain widespread acceptance.

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

Embrace curation as a core brand function . Brands that filter and contextualise effectively create substantial value, particularly in categories suffering from choice overload. Create "digital gardens" where content is organised by human meaning rather than algorithmic relevance. Consider how your brand can function as a trusted filter rather than... 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

Music

Disorganized information is just noise .

Organized info, contextualized for a specific audience / need is music .

It feels right. (By def it matches an audience's specific interests/problems.)

It has a cool sound. (Brings non-obvious insights (new melodies).)

It’s infinite. (Helps me discover and appreciate more music and artists.)

Curation as a Service (or CaaS) - I believe, as the amount of content on the web increases, there will inevitably be a need for more human curators. People who are domain experts (or have an obsession with a topic) that can sift through the garbage and collect the gems.

We are hungry for experts, sense makers and curators. The problem, now so drastically different from a decade ago, is not what to read/buy/eat/watch/etc but what is the best thing to read/buy/eat/watch/etc.

you have never had an original thought.

and you never will.

but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.

the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.

your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.

you are an instrument, not a source .

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