Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Curation provides value even to the most mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, with a perspective or purpose that makes them stand out in the chaotic, unorganized tsunami of superficial published content.
If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Consistency isn't enough . Being consistently wrong kills you.
Being consistently willing to change direction saves you.
Being consistently willing to change direction saves you.
Orel Zilberman | Substack
The share of human-agent and agent-agent interactions in the economy will increase over time, with agents engaging in price negotiation, placing orders from one another, coordinating supply and demand, and even rating each other to assign trustworthiness scores.
Faster Horses
“When we emphasize the artificially quantized, we lose access to the glorious in-between where we all actually live. [...] We lose access to the squishy, indeterminate, and speculative. [...] We are flying with instruments alone.” - Douglas Rushkoff
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
"School does offer children an opportunity to escape their homes and meet new friends.
But, at the same time, this process indoctrinates children with the idea that they should select their friends from among those with whom they are put together.
Providing the young from their earliest age with invitations to meet, evaluate, and seek out others
you have never had an original thought.
and you never will.
but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.
the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.
your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.
you are an instrument, not a source .
play... See more
and you never will.
but this is not an insult. it’s a gift.
the mind is a collector, a curator, a weaver of threads that existed before you.
your originality is not in what you think, but in how you combine, twist, and breathe life into what has already been known.
you are an instrument, not a source .
play... See more
vy | Substack
“ True curation is a quiet rebellion. Amidst all the social noise, top curators are trying to slow down, be intentional, and curate what actually matters. Not what’s trending, but what resonates and links to a true insight. It’s also become more personal. People don’t want mass taste, they want someone whose lens they trust. ”
That shift - from mass... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
“Everything we come into contact with has the potential to influence our taste. So the art of living well includes the art of feeding your input stream.” — Rick Rubin