Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
AI drives the cost of words to zero. The market floods. Consequently, the premium on Authenticity—on blood and bone—skyrockets. The web fills with synthetic noise. Curation becomes the only moat.
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
AI slop
Curation is how we carry creation forward. How we give it context, longevity, a second life.
The Curator Economy
What we need is more support for the act of curation itself: Not just paying online creators for their content, but paying curators, sustaining the people who find what you like.
One Thing • ⬜ the Importance of Curation
Same thing with experiences. We collect travel destinations like we are checking boxes on some cosmic to-do list. Forty countries before forty. Every national park. Every Instagram-famous café. We move so fast trying to acquire the experience that we never actually have it. A curator would slow down. Would spend three days in one museum instead of... See more
You’re a Collector Pretending to Be a Curator
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.
Gleb Tsipursky: With the rise of AI, creativity shifts from generation to curation
We will have so much abundance of ideas, that the true rare skill will not be to have great ideas, but to be able to pick the very best ones from huge pools of alternatives.
Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.
Nikita Bier • Tweet
Temptation is always strong to try something completely different.
But you’re able to add the most value if you can stick to one thing and go deeper and deeper.
Source: Jakob Greenfeld - https://brainstorms.substack.com/p/business-brainstorms-my-favorite-7c6
The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
“Bad news: The foremost experts in cultural analysis are reporting concepts and phrases which are statistically commonplace. [...] We’ve lost sight of what it means to be brave. It feels like our facilities for riskiness and imagination have atrophied.”
Meta Trends 2024 by Matt Klein
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
The critical distinction is that today's gatekeepers derive authority not from institutional power but from demonstrated discernment. Cultural capital now flows to those who can navigate overwhelming abundance with skill and intention.