Robin Good

- Ability to change yourself & your mind

- Not taking things personally

- Not needing to prove you're right

- Careful selection of all relationships

- Staying calm

- Being alone without being lonely

- Being ok with being uncomfortable

- Thinking for oneself

CFC: What advice would you give to aspiring curators just starting their careers?

JA: I would say: cultivate a practice rooted in curiosity, listening, and long-term commitment. Curating is not only about articulating ideas, it is about building the conditions for others to create, experiment, and be heard. This requires patience, care, and the... See more

Curating should be a way of expanding the horizon for all of us.

We have lost our ability to navigate by the stars, to identify edible plants in the wild, or to craft tools from raw materials. Yet among all these diminished aptitudes, one stands out as uniquely disastrous in its disappearance: our capacity for deep, sustained attention. This cognitive faculty, once the cornerstone of human achievement and... See more

The share of human-agent and agent-agent interactions in the economy will increase over time, with agents engaging in price negotiation, placing orders from one another, coordinating supply and demand, and even rating each other to assign trustworthiness scores.

the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a state of being, but a relational action, an interest in doing the hard work not just to find but to truly search , for each other, around each other, within each other.

you can only delegate effectively what you understand yourself.

The choice is not between AI and human intelligence. It is between information ecosystems that sustain both and information ecosystems that degrade both. The research is clear on where current trajectories lead. The strategic question is what to do about it.

The winning strategies over the next decade will not be those that maximize short-term AI deployment. They will be those that build and maintain access to high-quality information flows—genuine human expertise, carefully curated training corpora, institutional knowledge that has not been corrupted by synthetic recursion.