Curation vs. Aggregation

Thought starters on personalisation and recommendations…

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Simon de la Rouviere • The Human Medium is the Human Message

Arthur de Villemandy, co-founder of Capsule, during which I inquired about the tricks employed by his curators. He responded with remarkable clarity, stating, "Curation isn't about accumulating; it's about the art of non-choice. What truly matters is the overall coherence of the selections." This shift from FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) to NOMO... See more

honestly people are starving for more collective experiences, not more siloed hyper-personalized things

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Why I don't like algorithmic/filter bubbles/for you feeds: I refuse to be one thing. I’m two things, three things, a hundred things at once, and I’ll be a hundred different things tomorrow. I don’t want the convenience of being collapsed, defined, optimized for legibility. I want to be aerated, blobby, and porous. I... See more