Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Curators are like record labels for writers and authors.
They help me discover the stuff - I’m interested in - but that I would have never found otherwise.
Robin Goodsubstack.comThe shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire intellectual ecosystems.
1. Traditional Publishing: The Book as a Unit of Sale
In the traditional model, the goal was to produce a singular, high-quality product—the book. Success was measured by the
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While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
If effort is now diminished, if it can be hidden, and proof can or soon will be gamed too, if transparency itself can be performed — what’s left?
The only thing left that can’t be gamed is wanting something badly enough that it shows. Desire is the closest thing to proof of authenticity we have left.
Desire resists this because it’s too... See more
The only thing left that can’t be gamed is wanting something badly enough that it shows. Desire is the closest thing to proof of authenticity we have left.
Desire resists this because it’s too... See more
Proof of Humanity
A pattern for building personal knowledge bases using LLMs.
And if there’s one thing that experience has taught me, it’s that very little results can be replicated, as much as we wish they could . You cannot lift someone else’s strategy, apply it line by line, and expect the exact same outcome, because outward growth is deeply shaped by many variables including timing, luck, platform shifts, your voice,... See more
What helped me reach 10,000 subscribers in 15 weeks
Guardians of culture.
Stewards of meaning.
That's what curators are.
Stewards of meaning.
That's what curators are.