Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Marketing is the great killer of any artistic endeavor.
Gastroillogica on Substack
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
"Ideas that spread—whether firing neurons, viral memes, or galaxy formation—exist at the threshold between order and disorder. Too stable, nothing propagates. Too chaotic, nothing coheres.
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was
... See moreScott Belsky • (100) The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month
AI as liberation. AI as opportunity to be more creative and human.
Build systems and cultures that embrace a tradition of criticism, remixing, and error correction.
Corrales Cachola • When Expertise Goes Viral: Why Your Knowledge is the Killer App.
Armed with a traditional film background, we faced a dilemma: shed the principles of our training to feed the algorithm's insatiable appetite for content, or hold fast to our ideals and risk missing out. Multiply output for likes and follows, or cultivate vision for something that seemed very distant, unpredictable, and way harder to reach. It was... See more
Everyone's a Filmmaker: The Beautiful Lie of AI Democracy
“Cultivating infinite devotion is the prerequisite for becoming great in any field.
The external rewards typically take so long to appear that the people who ultimately persist to success are the ones who cultivate their internal motivation to the point where the external rewards are just the cherry on top, not the core goal.
From the outside,
This is why taste is rare. It requires both the skill to develop a point of view and the discipline to defend it against dilution.