Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Some women are memorable because they are beautiful. Some because they are charismatic. Some because they are wealthy or visibly accomplished.
But there is another category of woman who leaves a stronger impression than all of them.
A woman with perspective.
She can speak about things with depth. She has her own lens on the world. She notices details... See more
But there is another category of woman who leaves a stronger impression than all of them.
A woman with perspective.
She can speak about things with depth. She has her own lens on the world. She notices details... See more
Gabrielle Dubois Meloff • How to develop a point of view
This may very well be the kind of worldbuilding I’d like to pursue. This is what it looks like.
None of them would survive on the reference alone. What separates them is the argument each is making about who they are for, what their audience needs, what they believe about how the work should function in someone’s life.
This is the thing that does not yet circulate as a downloadable skill. You cannot scrape a position off a Pinterest board. You... See more
This is the thing that does not yet circulate as a downloadable skill. You cannot scrape a position off a Pinterest board. You... See more
Zoë Yasemin • The End of Taste as Currency
inviting people into how you see the world
Jon Schindehette • The Role of Taste
That’s what curation is
If search giants aren't interested in, well, search, I suppose it's time to look elsewhere for answers online. Share sources you trust, curate sources of information on what's important to you and dive back into specific URLs over general queries.
Search is dead — long live curation
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.
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
Next come 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... 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
The purpose of your life is to discover the purpose of your life.
How to find purpose/Kagi/Track your natural energy
I have yet to find a single writer who’s grown a serious following without some kind of niche.
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more