Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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There will always be creators. But the ones who stand out in this era are also curators. People who filter their worldview so cleanly that you want to see through their eyes. People who make you feel sharper just by paying attention to what they pay attention to.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
MODERN ARCHAEOLOGY - Discoveries in the Public Domain
youtube.comTop three Public Domain resources online.
helping readers discover work they’ll actually subscribe to.
I Just Learned How Substack’s Notes Algorithm Really Works (And Now Everything Makes Sense)
Read that again.
The Substack Notes algorithm is optimized for one thing: helping readers discover work they’ll actually subscribe to.
Not time spent. Not endless scrolling. Not ad clicks.
Subscriptions. Paid conversions. Real connections between readers and writers.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: People with really high expectations have very low resilience
youtube.comPeople with high expectations have very low resilience
Greatness doesn’t come from intelligence.
Great comes from having character and a strong character is informed by deep suffering.
In this new era, founders—of every kind—must become tastemakers, and venture capitalists the arbiters of taste. Because in a world where
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
anyone can create anything
, taste is what matters.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
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... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Where we can compete with AI is with our hearts—and by hearts, I mean the sense of feeling and the synergy that comes when we are together. I call it emotional articulation—it’s a practice.... See more
If you’re racing to the response, your mind is thinking, and you might be missing the magic—you might be missing the opportunities. The only way to avoid that is
Deep Synergy
It’s in the slowing down and in the deep reciprocal listening that new relationship building spaces can be built. Not by racing to respond to every idea or concept that enters your ears.
Algorithmic mediocrity has triggered a renaissance of human discernment, with consumers seeking trusted curators, insider communities, and editorial voices that offer genuine discovery.
Don’t get fooled. Although curation can save very significant time to those who benefit from it, it positively does not save any time at all to the curators who exercise it.