Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Consumption is easy. It’s loud, fast, and often insecure. Taste is slower. It’s edited. It builds over time. It requires knowing yourself well enough to say no more often than yes. It asks what deserves permanence instead of what photographs well.
The Aesthetic of a Life Well-Lived
Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
Tom White • Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
Rick Rubin on “taste”
via Tom White - https://www.whitenoise.email/p/rick-rubin-is-the-future-of-work
- The more things you do for yourself—for pleasure, for curiosity, for the sheer joy of it—the more you discover what you actually like.
- The more you discover what you like, the more you develop taste.
- The more taste you develop, the better you become at identifying and doing good, tasteful things for their own sake .
Tom White • Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
Like it or not, passion is about to be just as important as profit. No career is safe now, which means your healthy obsessions—those things that kindle your flame and stir your soul—are the only things that will carry you through.
Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
The most valuable voices today are increasingly the ones who can connect dots, notice patterns, and explain complex systems clearly enough that others understand them too.
Because helping others navigate it has become the real skill.
Because helping others navigate it has become the real skill.
Sensemaking: Part 2
real taste is tied to a personal point of view. Well, the one prerequisite for having a point of view is having a life. Not a reference library.
Taste Test: Encrusting the Tortoise
The founders who figure this out early will own the next decade. Everyone else will be optimizing landing pages for an audience that no longer exists.
AI is a collaborator that requires direction, critical engagement, and domain expertise. Used that way, it is extraordinarily valuable. Used without those things, it can produce confident, well-formatted errors.