Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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It’s happening in the background, away from performance, away from the algorithm. Rather than worrying about audience, these are intimacy tools.The most powerful cultural spaces right now are ones you can’t search for. You’re invited in, or you miss it.We spent a decade learning how to go viral. Now, the clever ones are learning how to go quiet.
There's a new cultural infrastructure. An invisible layer powering… | James Kirkham | 49 comments
This is the new cultural infrastructure. It is lo-fi, discreet, decentralised.
the internet is an endless library, but without curation, it can also be a wasteland of recycled opinions, shallow think pieces, and clickbait masquerading as intellectual engagement. if you want to cultivate a reading habit that sharpens your intellect, broadens your perspective, and introduces you to ideas you might not have encountered... See more
how to find interesting articles in a sea of clickbait
Go for the Insights
Analyzing things and extracting valuable insights by closely inspecting something is a road I’d recommend for those who want to stand out from their peers.
Those “things” could be thoughts and ideas from people you admire.
What you do is, you take one key idea from someone and you analyze to: a) expose something that otherwise... See more
Analyzing things and extracting valuable insights by closely inspecting something is a road I’d recommend for those who want to stand out from their peers.
Those “things” could be thoughts and ideas from people you admire.
What you do is, you take one key idea from someone and you analyze to: a) expose something that otherwise... See more
🚩 TRUST-able Newsletter by Robin Good
But the deepest form of trust, Potter argues, is when “a prediction of being well-treated... is grounded in a belief not only in the other’s good will toward oneself but in a belief that the other’s good will is part of a more general disposition that extends beyond the context of this particular relationship” (p. 5). In other words, the reason... See more
"Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"
Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror
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Directory of 500+ sources to find all types of content from news, to images, stock music, video footage, icons, sounds, trends, data (ready for re-use). It also includes: 1) search engines 2) Tools to monitor webpages and manage RSS feeds. Manually vetted. Updated Jan 2024.
Replace every single instance of “synthesised strategists” with “curators” and everything will make much more sense.
For brands, archives serve a parallel function: heritage as intellectual capital. Referencing your own past demonstrates institutional depth, creative continuity, and legitimacy that new brands cannot manufacture. In a world of conglomerate acquisitions and proliferating labels, archives prove you were there first. And that you still matter today.