Robin Good

Software has eaten the world, and now it’s a commodity. It’s not about the technology anymore. The era of the engineer has ended; the era of the curator has begun.

We're living through transformation so rapid that yesterday's breakthrough becomes today's infrastructure becomes tomorrow's archaeological curiosity becomes next week's "remember when" meme.

A recommendation from Emily Sundberg's Feed Me isn't an endorsement; it's an anointing. The mechanism isn't mysterious: curators build trust not by being right but by being wrong in interesting ways. They earn the right to be occasionally mystifying because they've proven they're making actual choices rather than optimising for metrics. This... See more

you have never had an original thought.

and you never will.

but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.

the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.

your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.

you are an instrument, not a source .

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Marketing is the great killer of any artistic endeavor.

helping readers discover work they’ll actually subscribe to.

as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing

Give users of all platforms the right to customize or opt out of algorithms—choosing chronological or geographical or genre-based filtering or even human curation.

To discover, learn, see what you dream or cannot even imagine, the best path is not too listen and follow blindly what everyone else does or suggests, but to explore, try out, venture on unexplored and badly charted trails.

Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .