Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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It’s 2026. People are no longer buying missions or hustle. They’re buying taste and objects that help them exercise that taste in the world.
We’re entering what I call the Taste Curation Renaissance, a shift away from content-as-advertising toward content-as-world-building.
We’re entering what I call the Taste Curation Renaissance, a shift away from content-as-advertising toward content-as-world-building.
Fatema Raja • The Taste Renaissance
everyone wants to be the plug now. The source. The moodboard in human form.
Curation is the new credibility.
Curation is the new credibility.
Mufaro • The Curator Economy
Unlike influencers, curators do not lead with self-exposure, but with interpretation. A curator’s authority comes not from personal relatability, but from perspective, context, discernment, and intellectual labour that has since been lacking in recent social media years.
the influencer won't last 2026. here's why.
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
So when we wonder where all the websites have gone, know it’s the curators we’re nostalgic for because the curators showed us the best the web had to offer once upon a time. And the curators— the tenders, aggregators, collectors, and connectors— can bring us back to something better. Because it’s still out there, we just have to find it.
Here’s the... See more
Here’s the... See more
Where have all the websites gone?
AI drives the cost of words to zero. The market floods. Consequently, the premium on Authenticity—on blood and bone—skyrockets. The web fills with synthetic noise. Curation becomes the only moat.
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
AI slop
Music
Disorganized information is just noise .
Organized info, contextualized for a specific audience / need is music .
It feels right. (By def it matches an audience's specific interests/problems.)
It has a cool sound. (Brings non-obvious insights (new melodies).)
It’s infinite. (Helps me discover and appreciate more music and artists.)
Disorganized information is just noise .
Organized info, contextualized for a specific audience / need is music .
It feels right. (By def it matches an audience's specific interests/problems.)
It has a cool sound. (Brings non-obvious insights (new melodies).)
It’s infinite. (Helps me discover and appreciate more music and artists.)
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At its core, taste is self-trust.
Every time you choose something because it feels right (not because it’s trending) you strengthen that inner compass that says, I can rely on my own discernment.
Every time you choose something because it feels right (not because it’s trending) you strengthen that inner compass that says, I can rely on my own discernment.
sydney rheeder 𖣠 • the power of knowing what you like
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?