Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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You can’t curate by accident.
You can only curate something for which you have a deep interest for.
In other words: If you don’t love it, you can’t curate it.
Yes: Curators love what they curate.
as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing
Deep Research and Knowledge Value (Stratechery Article 2-10-2025)
Why are we futuring to find solutions to the problems created by extrapolative, exponential, and extractive systems, when we should be futuring to imagine emerging novelty and construct transformative realities that would allow us to elevate our human, planetary, and universal experience above and beyond those systems?
The Future Thinker’s Dilemma
"School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends.
But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together.
Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others wo
In this new era, founders—of every kind—must become tastemakers, and venture capitalists the arbiters of taste. Because in a world where
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent colle... See more
