Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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"empower all who want to share what they know to find those who want to learn it from them"
Ivan Illich - Deschooling Society
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Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
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Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:
"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."
The purpose of your life is to discover the purpose of your life.
How to find purpose/Kagi/Track your natural energy
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 no... See more
In making this statement, the film suggested that creativity, above all else, is an act of curation. It's a claim that no... See more
Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
I get it. You pour your soul onto the page, and it’s crushing when no one seems to care. That’s human. But if you’re not careful, the need for validation starts steering the work.
You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.
And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your w... See more
You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.
And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your w... See more
Benjamin Antoine • The Golden era of Substack is over. Now what?
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.
Kevin Kelly • '68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice ' by Kevin Kelly — Neil Pasricha
the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:
People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship action and ha... See more
Maria Popova • Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
Dreamers, oh dreamers, I know too well some of you. Wake up, before too much of your precious lives has passed by.
This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted collection... See more