Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Without effort, struggle, and time investment, achievements become meaningless.
The value isn't just in the outcome—it's in who you become through the process of pursuing it.
The Waiting Room of Greatness: Why Boredom is the Key
To understand is to enter into a relationship with people, with things, with ideas. AI can imitate the language of relationships, but it stands outside of them. Our task is to keep knowledge alive by remaining in conversation with the world that gives it meaning.
The Meaning of an Apple
In an era of information abundance, the ability to filter effectively has become a premium skill. Good taste is cultural literacy: knowing the right references, understanding history, and recognising what matters beneath the surface noise.
Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
“What shocks me the most when i travel to the West is that even the new generations dread the future and display many of the symptoms associated with anxiety, including the inability to make plans and see them through.
As they can't identify the root cause of their distress, they indulge in fantasies about themselves and the world around them.
Thus
The Future and Reality
For brands, archives serve a parallel function: heritage as intellectual capital. Referencing your own past demonstrates institutional depth, creative continuity, and legitimacy that new brands cannot manufacture. In a world of conglomerate acquisitions and proliferating labels, archives prove you were there first. And that you still matter today.
Why Fashion Is Obsessed With Archives
our digital environments have turned us all into curators. Not just of aesthetics, but of inputs. What we consume, what we follow, what we amplify—it all becomes a mirror of how we think.
How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me
A curator’s authority comes not from personal relatability, but from perspective, context, discernment, and intellectual labour that has since been lacking in recent social media years. That authority is epistemic, not interpersonal as they reduce cognitive load and sort signal from noise. In other words, they cannot credibly hawk sheet masks or... See more
the influencer won't last 2026. here's why.
Social media platforms face a structural contradiction that current valuations do not adequately price. Their business model requires maximizing engagement. The research demonstrates that engagement-optimized content degrades both the AI systems trained on it and the humans consuming it.
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
"The #1 best practice for thought leadership is having a genuine, falsifiable point of view that risks being wrong.
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more