Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Finally, the integrative virtue enables people to merge different elements into a single complete system. The author needs to merge AI-generated content with their personal writing and ideas to produce a unified logical final product. Our ability to process information at a basic cognitive level enables us to merge information from multiple sources... See more
The Apt Curation Model: An Epistemic Virtue Theory of AI-Assisted Authorship
Good taste is accumulated through wide knowledge.
Henry Oliver • How to have good taste
The web is no longer primarily human-generated text created for human readers; it is increasingly AI-generated text created for algorithmic amplification, mixed with human-generated text optimized for the same algorithmic reward functions.
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
Attention, like energy, behaves differently depending on the structure that contains it.
Post #0: The Three Realities
Curated content formats serve different needs and functions
The curator relationship operates at a fundamentally different psychological level than advertising. An algorithm might know you like blue Oxford shirts, but a tastemaker knows why a particular blue Oxford matters in a lineage of blue Oxfords. This contextual knowing, placing objects in historical and cultural frameworks rather than recommendation... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
Sommeliers emerged as luxury goods in a world where the product (wine) was getting commoditized, and curation was the new differentiator. That’s exactly where jobs are headed.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
What the sommeliers figured out, before the rest of us eventually do, is that value is not in giving people more information. It’s in giving them confidence in a moment of uncertainty, making them feel like connoisseurs even if this is the first sip they’ve ever had.
Taste matters more, not less, in the age of AI . When machines can generate infinite answers, the human capacity to ask beautiful questions becomes the scarcest resource.
