Three tenets of reality creation: narrative, curation, and repetition
Knowing where to go and what to do is the currency that, in the modern aspiration economy, makes curators more important than influencers. They guide their audience through culture by putting forward a selection of images, references, codes, product releases, or memes. Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of vie... See more
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
see yourself as the curator of the collective thinking of your network, rather than the sole originator of ideas.
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Curate to create, there’s no other way
There’s no creation without inspiration.
Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the world through their chosen medium. Whether that’s painting, writing, music or photography is irrelevant.
First and foremost, creators are curators .
They take it all in and reinterpret it in their own ... See more
There’s no creation without inspiration.
Every creator throughout history has morphed his interpretation of the world through their chosen medium. Whether that’s painting, writing, music or photography is irrelevant.
First and foremost, creators are curators .
They take it all in and reinterpret it in their own ... See more
Jorge Medina • You’re Not Lacking Creativity, You’re Overwhelmed
Elite curation - which really commands economic value - is less about matching preferences and more about shaping them in your favour.
That comes only through narrative control. You choose what to elevate and what to exclude and you then get to tell the story of why that curation matters
That comes only through narrative control. You choose what to elevate and what to exclude and you then get to tell the story of why that curation matters
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
The simplest contribution you can make to culture is to reframe truth to fit inside of existing narratives. A much bigger contribution is creating new narratives to explain existing truths.
Defender • A Beginner's Guide to Culture Science
The creation of a new reality is centered on three tenets: narrative, curation, and repetition. A story is how we navigate the ambiguity of our environment, how we make sense of the world. It’s the promised land, a vision worth aspiring to, or a reading of the world worth attaching to. A story either inspires us to make a future destination our hom... See more
Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Yuval Noah Harari, Kamala Harris, the Pope, and Samuel Beckett Walk Into a Bar | House of Beautiful Business
And it’s so true it’s trite that human beings are narrative animals: every culture countenances itself as culture via a story, whether mythopoeic or politico-economic; every whole person understands his lifetime as an organized, recountable series of events and changes with at least a beginning and middle. We need narrative like we need space-time;
... See moreDavid Foster Wallace • Both Flesh and Not: Essays
This is curation - where taste and context exert narrative control
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
The curator must choose carefully and protect firmly . They must maintain an intimate relationship between themselves and the objects of their curation so it can be intimate for the audience, too. The curator must resist all temptations to talk too much, do too much, show too much, mean too much.
Humility is key: the curator must acknowledge that th... See more
Humility is key: the curator must acknowledge that th... See more