Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
Kim Kardashian doesn’t wear archival Galliano because it’s expensive; she wears it because it’s impossible to obtain.
In luxury, scarcity drives desire, but contemporary scarcity is manufactured. Limited drops, seasonal exclusives, and numbered editions are ultimately all accessible to anyone with enough money. True archives are different. They’re... See more
In luxury, scarcity drives desire, but contemporary scarcity is manufactured. Limited drops, seasonal exclusives, and numbered editions are ultimately all accessible to anyone with enough money. True archives are different. They’re... See more
Why Fashion Is Obsessed With Archives
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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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 .
play... See more
vy | Substack
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See moreLooking for the source of this content. Who wrote it and where was it first published?
As content multiplies, the challenge isn’t access; it’s orientation. We don’t need more input; we need better filters. That’s where the curator comes in: not just as a tastemaker, but as a trusted lens in a world of endless noise.
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Technology treats the process of consuming and the process of creating as distinctly different, when the reality is that for our brains, the process of absorbing a book is not all too different from the process of producing one. We are always seeking new connections, combining and recombining old ideas to produce new ones. So why is it that we... See more
sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Curation as a bridge
We used to associate intelligence with accumulation. Who knew the most. Who could recall the fastest. Who sounded the smartest in a room.
But in a world where AI knows more than anyone—and everyone is shouting into the void—intelligence has quietly changed shape. It’s no longer about how much you know. It’s about how well you filter .
But in a world where AI knows more than anyone—and everyone is shouting into the void—intelligence has quietly changed shape. It’s no longer about how much you know. It’s about how well you filter .
How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me
A curator’s authority comes not from personal relatability, but from perspective, context, discernment, and intellectual labour that has since been lacking in recent social media years. That authority is epistemic, not interpersonal as they reduce cognitive load and sort signal from noise. In other words, they cannot credibly hawk sheet masks or... See more
the influencer won't last 2026. here's why.
as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing