Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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We don’t think *about* writing; we think *through* writing.
The Extended Hand: How Writing by Hand Rewires Your Cognitive Boundaries
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."
Here’s the part artists often miss: people use taste as a shortcut for trust.
An art director doesn’t just hire someone because the work is good. They hire someone because the artist’s taste suggests they’ll make good decisions under pressure. A collector doesn’t just buy an image — they buy into a worldview. A fan doesn’t just follow output; they
... See moreIn the age of infinite information, the competitive advantage isn't knowledge—it's wisdom. Not those who know the most, but those who can discern what matters. Not processing power, but purpose. Those who can extract meaning, connect dots across domains, and make wise decisions despite uncertainty are more likely to thrive.
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
The Future and HI AI
Influencers (by definition and per contract) are paid to recommend; curators earn trust by choosing. Different economic incentives yield different results. Influence is a media buy. Curation is a reputation. Not having everything for everyone is a feature, not a bug.
The Future of Search is Taste.
If knowledge is causal, creative, and world-shaping, then we’re now in an era where what you know — and how expertly you encode and refine it — can literally shape the world (and beyond).
When Expertise Goes Viral: Why Your Knowledge is the Killer App.
Entrepreneurship and Life
This is how personal vision becomes shared reality. When you build from what feels deeply true to you, your perspective becomes a lens through which others start seeing their own possibilities.
Your struggles become their stepping stones. Your discoveries become their doorways. Your journey becomes their map.
And here's what makes this approach... See more
Your struggles become their stepping stones. Your discoveries become their doorways. Your journey becomes their map.
And here's what makes this approach... See more