Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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the real distinction is active curation versus algorithmic passivity.
Those who maintain curated RSS feeds, follow specific critics, actively seek content rather than accept recommendations—they occupy a different position in the status hierarchy than those who let the algorithm feed them.
This is the new elite: the curators. The ones who resist the... See more
Those who maintain curated RSS feeds, follow specific critics, actively seek content rather than accept recommendations—they occupy a different position in the status hierarchy than those who let the algorithm feed them.
This is the new elite: the curators. The ones who resist the... See more
Everyone can tell you let the algorithm choose
This is what research builds in you when you commit to it seriously. It develops a subconscious visual language like a set of instincts, references, and connections that are genuinely yours. On set, this shows up in the decisions that happen quickly: the frame you move to instinctively, the object you reach for, the casting quality you recognise... See more
Your Research Practice Is Your Creative Identity
AI is a collaborator that requires direction, critical engagement, and domain expertise. Used that way, it is extraordinarily valuable. Used without those things, it can produce confident, well-formatted errors.
Morten Nyboe Tabor • AI as a Research Collaborator, Not a Paper Mill
We're not climbing a hill of progress; we've been shot out of a cannon of acceleration, blindfolded and hoping for a soft landing. Welcome to the velocity of now, where the future arrives before we've processed the present, and the past recedes so swiftly it requires professionals to remind us what existed just five years ago.
50 Things That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago
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."
The critical distinction is that today's gatekeepers derive authority not from institutional power but from demonstrated discernment. Cultural capital now flows to those who can navigate overwhelming abundance with skill and intention.
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
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.
Depth comes from exposure, not shopping.
Search "taste" on Substack
one thing I saw growing up in South London in the 1980s as supermarkets deployed was that small food shops tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that supermarkets themselves couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was the... See more
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
Curation and Future of Search and Context
Revisited: one thing I saw growing up with the Internet as Google grew, was that small lists and directories tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that Google itself couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was enough interest to support this. They didn't scale - they didn't turn into chains of 30 indie directories networks - but they often prospered.