Interesting reflections by others

A while ago I got interested in being more agentic. Emmett Shear tweeted that it was teachable. He would train people by prompting them with certain questions. I gathered those questions and put them into a flow chart that I go through to problem-solve: https://t.co/kM0MID8bT5... See more

The ingredients of ‘good’ curation

I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:

1. Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.


2. Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of that

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It means that the really important sort of censorship we ought to worry about pertains less to the management of information, and more to the management of attention.

That is to say, our informational tools have rapidly become our informational envir-onment .

− Subtraction & Depth

“As platforms combust around us, brands are frantically asking, “Where to next?”.

We’ve done a familiar dance for over a decade: users have jumped from blogs to Myspace to Facebook to Instagram to Snapchat to TikTok, and brands and ads have duly followed, collecting ever more data on our lives along the way. [...]

But what i

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