Robin Good

Stop searching for something new.

Organize and add value to what is already there.

High agency is such an important idea because the more agency an individual or society has -- the more problems they can solve.

High agency can be a confusing idea to understand because it’s not just one idea. It’s a combination of three distinct skills rarely found together:

1. Clear thinking


2. Bias to action


3. Disagreeability

Good luck finding your coat; the house keeps rearranging itself. If your head's spinning, good. Spin with purpose

Lessons for Managing Today's Overwhelm:

History shows that successful adaptation requires taking active control of information filters rather than passively accepting them. Just as Renaissance scholars developed personal commonplace books to organize knowledge, and early internet users created bookmarking systems before Google dominated search, we ... See more

The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.

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 flo... See more

The ingredients of ‘good’ curation

I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:

1. Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.


2. Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of that

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We're not climbing a hill of progress; we've been shot out of a cannon of acceleration, blindfolded and hoping for a soft landing. Welcome to the velocity of now, where the future arrives before we've processed the present, and the past recedes so swiftly it requires professionals to remind us what existed just five years ago.