Robin Good

“The life of perfection is the simple life. - A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced. It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In

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Curation becomes a high-value skill when it goes beyond simply linking to things (”Link Roundups”) and moves toward Synthesis Curation: identifying a trend that four separate thought leaders are touching upon, grouping their work, and writing a definitive summary that connects the dots they couldn’t see. The “workout” for this muscle is reading... See more

Museums act as filters for cultural abundance. Only so much can be kept within museum storerooms or displayed in exhibitions. Limited word counts on exhibition texts require the winnowing down of very large topics to the small and essential. Many core museum functions, from the selection of what objects and information should be kept through to... See more

- Ability to change yourself & your mind

- Not taking things personally

- Not needing to prove you're right

- Careful selection of all relationships

- Staying calm

- Being alone without being lonely

- Being ok with being uncomfortable

- Thinking for oneself

We have to raise our guard regarding what we trust. We increasingly have to assume that whatever we receive is not genuine.

In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent... See more

I think of taste like a radar. As you move through the world, your radar scans and picks up on what aligns.

" The gap: Most thought leadership frameworks focus on positioning (how to be seen) rather than generativity (how to produce genuinely new ideas).

The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.

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Embrace curation as a core brand function . Brands that filter and contextualise effectively create substantial value, particularly in categories suffering from choice overload. Create "digital gardens" where content is organised by human meaning rather than algorithmic relevance. Consider how your brand can function as a trusted filter rather than... See more