Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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I am noticing how maxed out people’s mental bandwidth is these days- for every online creator the struggle is very real (subscription fatigue & co.)
Many of us still want to read, comment and engage, but there’s simply too much of everything all the time. And so we mentally “save” it all for “later” that never arrives.
But at the same time, the need... See more
Many of us still want to read, comment and engage, but there’s simply too much of everything all the time. And so we mentally “save” it all for “later” that never arrives.
But at the same time, the need... See more
Anna | BACK TO SENSES • Anna | BACK TO SENSES (@backtosenses)
“ True curation is a quiet rebellion. Amidst all the social noise, top curators are trying to slow down, be intentional, and curate what actually matters. Not what’s trending, but what resonates and links to a true insight. It’s also become more personal. People don’t want mass taste, they want someone whose lens they trust. ”
That shift - from mass... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Consistency isn't enough . Being consistently wrong kills you.
Being consistently willing to change direction saves you.
Being consistently willing to change direction saves you.
Orel Zilberman | Substack
When you share what influences you, you’re not distracting from your work. You’re giving people a framework for understanding it.
The Role of Taste
“Moving away from an Anthropocene into a Symbiocene requires a biological, psychological, and sacred perspective in our foresight & futures thinking work.... See more
Why? When we leave out the interconnected, vibrant, and emergent qualities of life in favor of only serving dominant systems of productivity, efficiency, and hyper-monetization, we fail to
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
There’s fatigue around lifestyle maximalism, around the endless cycle of consumption masquerading as inspiration. The old formula of outfit links, makeup tutorials, maybe a smoothie recipe, feels flat in the face of a world that feels increasingly complex. The best creators are picking up on that. They’re responding not with more, but with depth.... See more
The Rise of the Expert Influencer
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Robert W Malone MD, MS • The Rural Rebellion Will Decide This Election
We’re very close
Replace every single instance of “synthesised strategists” with “curators” and everything will make much more sense.
Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:
"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."