Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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The shift described represents a fundamental change in the "architecture" of how creative value is captured, moving from individual products to entire intellectual ecosystems.
1. Traditional Publishing: The Book as a Unit of Sale
In the traditional model, the goal was to produce a singular, high-quality product—the book. Success was measured by the
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Go for the Insights
Analyzing things and extracting valuable insights by closely inspecting something is a road I’d recommend for those who want to stand out from their peers.
Those “things” could be thoughts and ideas from people you admire.
What you do is, you take one key idea from someone and you analyze to: a) expose something that otherwise... See more
Analyzing things and extracting valuable insights by closely inspecting something is a road I’d recommend for those who want to stand out from their peers.
Those “things” could be thoughts and ideas from people you admire.
What you do is, you take one key idea from someone and you analyze to: a) expose something that otherwise... See more
🚩 TRUST-able Newsletter by Robin Good
“Find your passion” is also... well, bullshit.
We tell young people to "find their passion" as if there's a vast forest before them, and somewhere among the millions of trees stands the one perfect specimen that will unlock their life's purpose.
This metaphor used to paralyze me more than inspire.
Most eighteen-year-olds' genuine passions involve... See more
We tell young people to "find their passion" as if there's a vast forest before them, and somewhere among the millions of trees stands the one perfect specimen that will unlock their life's purpose.
This metaphor used to paralyze me more than inspire.
Most eighteen-year-olds' genuine passions involve... See more
Maalvika • why are we lying to young people about work?
In this new system, AI can generate content quickly, cheaply, and in an abundance that none of us can keep up with. And it’s getting better constantly.
Which means the thing that used to be the product—the content itself—is no longer a scarce resource.
That was somewhat true in the old system already. It is at a new, scaled level of true in the new... See more
Which means the thing that used to be the product—the content itself—is no longer a scarce resource.
That was somewhat true in the old system already. It is at a new, scaled level of true in the new... See more
The Search For New Marketing Tactics is the Wrong Search
- The more things you do for yourself—for pleasure, for curiosity, for the sheer joy of it—the more you discover what you actually like.
- The more you discover what you like, the more you develop taste.
- The more taste you develop, the better you become at identifying and doing good, tasteful things for their own sake .
Tom White • Rick Rubin Is the Future of Work
To discover, learn, see what you dream or cannot even imagine, the best path is not too listen and follow blindly what everyone else does or suggests, but to explore, try out, venture on unexplored and badly charted trails.
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Robin Good | Substack
the only definition of authenticity that doesn’t fall apart under close inspection: not a state of being, but a relational action, an interest in doing the hard work not just to find but to truly search , for each other, around each other, within each other.
Elan Ullendorff • Folk search engines
curation is, if nothing else, interdisciplinary and relational, often mediating between past and contemporary ideas for an audience. If done skillfully, the curator performs multiple roles simultaneously, as storyteller, educator, critic, collaborator and entertainer.