Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Curation 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."
as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing
Deep Research and Knowledge Value (Stratechery Article 2-10-2025)
We're not climbing a hill of progress; we've been shot out of a cannon of acceleration, blindfolded and hoping for a soft landing. Welcome to the velocity of now, where the future arrives before we've processed the present, and the past recedes so swiftly it requires professionals to remind us what existed just five years ago.
50 Things That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago
The conversation around taste tends to focus on what it takes to develop it, but not what it takes to use it and unlock its potential, which is confidence .
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which... See more
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which... See more
Taste as a Function of Confidence
The more you sample, the better and broader your taste will be. The more you stick to what already speaks to you, the more limited and narrow your taste.
How to have good taste
The finding is elegant and disturbing: when AI systems are trained on data generated by previous AI systems—a scenario increasingly common as synthetic content floods the internet—the models progressively lose their ability to represent rare and subtle patterns. The statistical tails of the distribution vanish. The models converge toward median,... See more
The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
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.comFriends are better than money. Almost anything that money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways, a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
Kevin Kelly • '68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice ' by Kevin Kelly — Neil Pasricha
When brands keep repeating why they exist, what their mission is—yes, it matters. But people don’t need weekly reminders of a mission. They’re buying a way to place themselves in the world. They’re buying alignment with a particular set of references, values, and cultural signals.
Brands that get this understand that taste lives in music chosen,... See more
Brands that get this understand that taste lives in music chosen,... See more