Curation

To understand the role of a curator today, think of a sieve in a gold rush: the AI provides the massive pile of silt and sand (the data), but the curator's "taste" is the mesh that allows the worthless dirt to fall through while catching the rare, valuable nuggets of gold. Without the sieve, you just have a pile of dirt; with it, you have a... See more

The curator relationship operates at a fundamentally different psychological level than advertising. An algorithm might know you like blue Oxford shirts, but a tastemaker knows why a particular blue Oxford matters in a lineage of blue Oxfords. This contextual knowing, placing objects in historical and cultural frameworks rather than recommendation... See more

not letting algorithms decide what deserves your attention. If you want to feel creatively and intellectually alive, stop mindlessly consuming the internet and start mindfully curating it. You need a space away from social media's compulsive rhythm, where your ideas can grow at their own pace

In fact, I’d argue an emerging class of creators and consumer brands is actually employing curation as a business strategy. Gohar World, Ganni and Soeur have been sharing city travel guides, Ghia has been sharing Spotify playlists, and tastemakers like Olympia Gayot and Alex Eagle are joining entirely new social platforms purpose-built for... 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.)

In popular discourse, “curation” has been diluted to mean picking a few interesting links for a social feed. Real curation is far more rigorous: a four-part practice of intellectual metabolism.

Selection is the first move, determining what is worth keeping at all. This requires a judgment of signal versus noise that is only possible with deep... See more

“Content curation... enables brands to create an environment that people continually return to as a knowledge resource on a particular topic or issue. In doing so, brands set themselves up as an authority, but more importantly, an impartial authority – by not just profiling their own content or views. This is a great way to diffuse the sense of... See more

"Expert curation occurs when an actual human being who is, theoretically, an expert in a given topic, weighs the quality of the information presented in making her source selections. ⁣⁣

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Expert curation can also include an editorial element, in which the expert not only judges content for quality but also provides a point of view."⁣⁣

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