Robin Good

@robingood

The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.

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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

Taste

The more you sample, the better and broader your taste will be. The more you stick to what already speaks to you, the more limited and narrow your taste.

The first is the architectural virtue . This competence can be precisely described as being able to design everything relevant to compose the structure of the epistemic project’s intellectual process. This includes preparing the research question,19 carefully formulating the thesis, outlining the supporting argumentative steps, anticipating... See more

The Apt Curation Model: An Epistemic Virtue Theory of AI-Assisted Authorship

Curation

The most human part of humanity is not our animal instincts nor our computer-like rationality, but our mutual social creation of meanings and values around arbitrary choices.

Humanness

Source: https://culture.ghost.io/2023-lookback-rip-internet-etc/

“Content curation... enables brands to create an environment that people continually return to as a knowledge resource on a particular topic or issue. In doing so, brands set themselves up as an authority, but more importantly, an impartial authority – by not just profiling their own content or views. This is a great way to diffuse the sense of... See more

Curation Economy: Authority in the Age of Excess

Curation

So that, I think, is the role of information curators: They are our curiosity sherpas, who lead us to things we didn’t know we were interested in until we, well, until we are. Until we pay attention to them — because someone whose taste and opinion we trust points us to them, and we integrate them with our existing pool of resources, and they... See more