Robin Good

The problem - and the reason the Vibe Coding Paradox comes up - is because we live in an age where it is possible to hack our way to attention without having to do the hard work needed to build trust.

With that, we misunderstand attention as value. But without trust, it really isn’t.

In an age of mass production, curation and taste matter more.

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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

information becomes knowledge only through processes of verification and critical analysis.

There is no room for diverse futures in the boardroom when all they’re concerned with is hitting the next quarter’s KPIs.

The web is no longer primarily human-generated text created for human readers; it is increasingly AI-generated text created for algorithmic amplification, mixed with human-generated text optimized for the same algorithmic reward functions.

As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more

This is why taste is rare. It requires both the skill to develop a point of view and the discipline to defend it against dilution.

‘Scene Cool’ values high quality over high sales, fellow tastemakers over mass-market followers, and specific geographical context over post-geographic audiences. While ‘Internet Cool’ chases clout and virality across global digital networks.

The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they... See more