Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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To understand the role of a curator today, think of a sieve in a gold rush: the AI provides the massive pile of silt and sand (the data), but the curator's "taste" is the mesh that allows the worthless dirt to fall through while catching the rare, valuable nuggets of gold. Without the sieve, you just have a pile of dirt; with it, you have a... See more
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inviting people into how you see the world
Jon Schindehette • The Role of Taste
That’s what curation is
The founders who figure this out early will own the next decade. Everyone else will be optimizing landing pages for an audience that no longer exists.
Learning and
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
Much of the debate about AI in research gets stuck on whether AI is “really” intelligent. I think this is the wrong question. The right question is whether the interaction produces useful research output. Rejecting AI-assisted research because “AI isn’t intelligent” is like rejecting research that used a calculator because “calculators don’t... See more
Morten Nyboe Tabor • AI as a Research Collaborator, Not a Paper Mill
“Bad news: The foremost experts in cultural analysis are reporting concepts and phrases which are statistically commonplace. [...] We’ve lost sight of what it means to be brave. It feels like our facilities for riskiness and imagination have atrophied.”
Meta Trends 2024 by Matt Klein