Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:
People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship action and ha... See more
Maria Popova • Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
Dreamers, oh dreamers, I know too well some of you. Wake up, before too much of your precious lives has passed by.
Be willing to have your most fundamental beliefs challenged.
Better , be eager and question them yourself. For YouTuber Ordinary Things, “The real danger of modern times isn’t that we’ll fail to tell the fake world from the real one, but it’s that we’ll know the world is fake and choose to live in that one anyway because it’s comfortable.” How iron... See more
Better , be eager and question them yourself. For YouTuber Ordinary Things, “The real danger of modern times isn’t that we’ll fail to tell the fake world from the real one, but it’s that we’ll know the world is fake and choose to live in that one anyway because it’s comfortable.” How iron... See more
Matt Klein • The META Trending Trends: 2024
Marsh lays out several prerequisites for the person curating a digital exhibition. First and foremost, they need a “willingness to engage with [their] content on a level deep enough to perceive its meaning and significance." Understanding the audience, including “what they would find interesting, valuable, or compelling," is also critical. Further,... See more
Deep Synergy
Curating requires:
1. knowing deeply what’s being curated
2. understanding who you are curating for
3. intentionality and creativity
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.
I get it. You pour your soul onto the page, and it’s crushing when no one seems to care. That’s human. But if you’re not careful, the need for validation starts steering the work.
You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.
And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your w... See more
You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.
And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your w... See more
Benjamin Antoine • The Golden era of Substack is over. Now what?
In the age of infinite information, the competitive advantage isn't knowledge—it's wisdom. Not those who know the most, but those who can discern what matters. Not processing power, but purpose. Those who can extract meaning, connect dots across domains, and make wise decisions despite uncertainty are more likely to thrive.
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
The Final Goal - Laura Aboli
youtube.comA vision for the future.
“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain o... See more
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain o... See more
A quote from The Prophet
Curation and life nudges
