Robin Good

Build systems and cultures that embrace a tradition of criticism, remixing, and error correction.

While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more

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

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

as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing