Robin Good

our digital environments have turned us all into curators. Not just of aesthetics, but of inputs. What we consume, what we follow, what we amplify—it all becomes a mirror of how we think.

Friends 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.

Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work

When a brand builds a universe specific enough, coherent enough, richly curated enough, the right people recognize their own taste reflected. The shouting becomes unnecessary.

The world speaks for itself. And the people who belong there find their way home.

But most brands won’t do this. It’s too slow, too difficult, too dependent on taste as a real... See more

The winning film argued that "total pixel space represents both the ultimate determinism and the ultimate freedom—every possibility existing simultaneously, waiting for consciousness to give it meaning through the act of choice."

In making this statement, the film suggested that creativity, above all else, is an act of curation. It's a claim that... See more

Your original thinking is your moat.

People don’t follow writers for information (they can get that anywhere). They follow writers for interpretation .

As information volume and complexity grew, simply keeping pace became a specialized profession. In other words, information specialists who do nothing but track developments in more and more narrow domains emerge.

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