Process
The ingredients of ‘good’ curation
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
- Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.
- Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of that
Rachel Botsman • How to curate your life to find more meaning
Work is changing
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Work is changing, and we're only beginning to understand how. What's clear from these experiments is that the relationship between human expertise and AI capabilities isn't fixed. Sometimes I found myself acting as a creative director, other times as a troubleshooter, and yet other times as a domain expert validating results. It wa... See more
Ethan Mollick • Speaking things into existence
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
Hall of Mirrors
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So what could that look like in our lives? It means rescuing little ideas that gleam for a second in our soul then disappear. Coaxing them back. It means attention to not this or that but possibly both or some other way entirely. This isn’t necessarily easy, being so conditioned as we are to yes or no, black or white. And sometimes that third posit... See more
Martin Shaw • Navigating the Mysteries
Whenever you’re debating what to do, explicitly ask yourself “what do I predict will happen if I choose option A?” and try to unroll the trajectory. Even if you think you’re already intuitively predicting the results of your choices, I’ve found it helps surprisingly much to be explicit—one of my manager role models asks me this (“what do you think ... See more
Ben Kuhn • Impact, agency, and taste
The beauty of the rabbit hole, and the warren you create by falling down it, is how it activates your curiosity to generate new, reflective pockets of information and knowledge. And the better you become at “finding,” the more portals emerge, and the farther you get from a complete sense of having found. The state of curiosity is one of abundance: ... See more
Alden Burke • How to Fall Down a Rabbit Hole
Take an Avoidance Inventory
We all have them — those seemingly simple tasks that keep migrating from one to-do list to the next: the overdue email response, the financial paperwork, the home repair project. These persistent items don’t just clutter our lists; they create invisible barriers to flow, weighing us down and preventing us from embracing ... See more
We all have them — those seemingly simple tasks that keep migrating from one to-do list to the next: the overdue email response, the financial paperwork, the home repair project. These persistent items don’t just clutter our lists; they create invisible barriers to flow, weighing us down and preventing us from embracing ... See more