Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
robingood.substack.comRobin Good
Taste starts with noticing.
a) The first step is exposure.
You have to see, hear, and feel a wide range of options to understand what excellence looks like. Read great literature. Listen to great speeches. Visit great buildings. Eat great food.
b) The second is to pay attention to the details.
The pacing of a paragraph, the curve of a chair,... See more
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simongrant.orgCuration and Knowledge Management
"Agriculture made towns and cities possible, made it possible to meet and associate with far more people than was possible in hunter-gatherer tribes.
Eventually, poets could meet poets, artists could meet artists, and musicians, musicians. The potential of a group of competent musicians is so much greater than the sum of them all in ones and twos.
But large cities have been with us for thousands of years now, and somehow the advances brought on by civilisation seem to have run dry, and urban decay has begun to manifest.
Provided that people can still communicate and work together, the next step forward in human cultural terms might well be independent from physical proximity – it might be through association by choice.
Perhaps now is a good time for the better application of those information technologies that have been developed in recent decades, in supporting storage and reuse: not of food, as in neolithic times, nor even of money, where information technology applied to finance has enabled both wonderful and dreadful things.
It is now the turn of personal information to be the focus of the new technology – information technology – so that we can present ourselves and the values we have chosen to others, and let that information be used for the further positive transformation of society."
‘Scene Cool’ values high quality over high sales, fellow tastemakers over mass-market followers, and specific geographical context over post-geographic audiences. While ‘Internet Cool’ chases clout and virality across global digital networks.
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they wi... See more
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they wi... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
…curators; like a museum curator pulling works together for an exhibition, they organize the avalanche of online content into something coherent and comprehensible, restoring missing context and building narratives. They highlight valuable things that we less-expert Internet surfers are likely to miss.
Kyle Chayka
Today, buying products online has never been easier. Convenience is at an all-time high, and consumers have more options than ever before. It seems, once again, that there is nowhere else we need to go. And yet, this is precisely the problem.
In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us abo... See more
In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us abo... See more
Jesse Lee • Curators All the Way Down
Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness.
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
Marketing is the great killer of any artistic endeavor.
Gastroillogica on Substack
the critical skill of the future isn’t generating new ideas but curating those developed by generative AI. The role of idea curators will be crucial in discerning the most promising concepts, refining them to enhance their viability, and then promoting them to gain widespread acceptance.