curation
To feel creatively and intellectually alive, you have to stop mindlessly consuming the Internet and start mindfully curating it.
“librarians are what the internet is aching for—people on task to care about the past, with respect to the past and also to what it shall bequeath to the future.” Can we reimagine libraries for the digital age?
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
what are the parallels between librarians and curators/ curation
Curation is the art of selection . It’s the filtering through the vast expanse of information we are exposed to, choosing what deserves our attention.
Jorge Medina • You’re Not Lacking Creativity, You’re Overwhelmed
Curation leads to expertise. Through curation, you better understand yourself, history, and unlikely connections across fields. Increasingly, we will curate sources and ideas and let AI handle execution or assembly. Honing an ability to curate and arrange these sources will cultivate depth and meaning in your work—tuning the machine to your... See more
terrain.com • Design Literacy
It’s important to always be curating
Not all blogs stay the same, and there are always interesting new blogs that come up. I make an effort to, every three months, review my news consumption and delete blogs I’m not really ever clicking on. I’ll also scan some of the blogs I follow to see if any affiliated blogs are of interest to me.
hackernoon.com • How I Live: My Finite News System
This recent surge of human-curated guidance is both a reaction against and an extension of the tyranny of algorithmic recommendations, which in the course of the past decade have taken over our digital platforms. Today’s automated social-media feeds deliver increasingly indistinguishable content now sometimes generated by artificial intelligence;
... See moreKyle Chayka • The Banality of Online Recommendation Culture | the New Yorker
Synthesis is where taste develops.
conscious consumption
Taste is a byproduct.
An emergent property.
Taste comes from hunger.
An emergent property.
Taste comes from hunger.