Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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"Ideas that spread—whether firing neurons, viral memes, or galaxy formation—exist at the threshold between order and disorder. Too stable, nothing propagates. Too chaotic, nothing coheres.
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
"The most effective thought leadership strategy is contrarian specificity: take a clear, defensible position that challenges conventional wisdom in your domain, then back it with original frameworks, data, or lived experience others can't replicate.
Most thought leaders fail by being either too agreeable (becoming background noise) or contrarian... See more
Most thought leaders fail by being either too agreeable (becoming background noise) or contrarian... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
" The gap: Most thought leadership frameworks focus on positioning (how to be seen) rather than generativity (how to produce genuinely new ideas).
The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.
This means: treating... See more
The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.
This means: treating... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
"The #1 best practice for thought leadership is having a genuine, falsifiable point of view that risks being wrong.
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
Cross-domain patterns for thought leader distribution:
1. Epidemiology: Ideas spread through super-spreaders—focus on 50 key relationships, not 50,000 followers
2. Mycorrhizal networks: Trees share nutrients underground; build invisible "root systems" through back-channels (group chats, private Slacks)
3. Luxury branding: Scarcity creates demand—limit... See more
1. Epidemiology: Ideas spread through super-spreaders—focus on 50 key relationships, not 50,000 followers
2. Mycorrhizal networks: Trees share nutrients underground; build invisible "root systems" through back-channels (group chats, private Slacks)
3. Luxury branding: Scarcity creates demand—limit... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
Trusted advisors don't pretend to know everything.
They know who to ask, what to read, where to look.
Curation is the infrastructure of advisory relationships.
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RG
The Seven Needs of Real-Time Curators
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This is a guide for how we can build “info molecules” that have a lot more value than the atomic world we live in now. First, what are info atoms? A tweet is an atom. A photo on Flickr is an atom. A conversation item on Google Buzz is an atom. A Facebook status message is an atom. A YouTube video is an atom.
Thousands of these atoms flow across our screens in tools like Seesmic, Google Reader, Tweetdeck, Tweetie, Simply Tweet, Twitroid, etc.
A curator is an information chemist. He or she mixes atoms together in a way to build an info-molecule. Then adds value to that molecule.
References
Ahn, A. (2013). “You are not a curator”. Bullett. Consulted February 4, 2013. http://bullettmedia.com/article/you-are-not-a-curator/
Arnold, K. (2006). Cabinets for the curious: Looking back at early English museums . Hants & Burlington, Ashgate Publishing.
Belk, R. (2013). Collecting in a consumer society . Abingdon, Oxfordshire, & New... See more
Ahn, A. (2013). “You are not a curator”. Bullett. Consulted February 4, 2013. http://bullettmedia.com/article/you-are-not-a-curator/
Arnold, K. (2006). Cabinets for the curious: Looking back at early English museums . Hants & Burlington, Ashgate Publishing.
Belk, R. (2013). Collecting in a consumer society . Abingdon, Oxfordshire, & New... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
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