Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Content Finder Toolkit
xtiles.app
Directory of 500+ sources to find all types of content from news, to images, stock music, video footage, icons, sounds, trends, data (ready for re-use). It also includes: 1) search engines 2) Tools to monitor webpages and manage RSS feeds. Manually vetted. Updated Jan 2024.
Most times, the best way to create value is continue to double down on the domain-specific insights you've collected over your entire career.
Nikita Bier • Tweet
Temptation is always strong to try something completely different.
But you’re able to add the most value if you can stick to one thing and go deeper and deeper.
Source: Jakob Greenfeld - https://brainstorms.substack.com/p/business-brainstorms-my-favorite-7c6
“ The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before. ” ~ Einstein
The myth comes first [465]
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... See more
In making this statement, the film suggested that creativity, above all else, is an act of curation. It's a claim that... See more
Curated realities: An AI film festival and the future of human expression
Electronic Portfolios
simongrant.orgCuration 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."
The path to becoming future proof comes down to shifting from consumer to creator. When you solve your own problems, publish the solutions in the global town square, and help an audience of like-minded people, even if that audience is a "tiny" 1,000 true fans, I find it hard to believe you won't find the power in you to create a good life. At that... See more
Purpose & Profit – A Guide To Discovering Your Life's Work
Somewhere between the late 2000’s aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our ability to curate the web. Worse still, we’ve outsourced our discovery to corporate algorithms. Most of us did it in exchange for an endless content feed.
Where have all the websites gone?
“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
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
A Map of the Online World in Incredible Detail
visualcapitalist.com