Robin Good

And that’s what real taste is: a deep internal coherence. A way of filtering the world through intuition that’s been sharpened by attention.

Taste manifests as a combination of history, design, user experience, and embedded values that creates emotional resonance — that defines how a product connects with people as individuals and aligns with their identity. None of the tactical things alone are taste; they’re mere artifacts or effects of expressing one’s taste. At a minimum, taste... See more

The richest insights are found in overlooked sources and connections that are beyond the reach of the internet and the incentives of its curatorial algorithms. My inspiration comes from unexpected places: the yellowed pages of out-of-print software books, modern science fiction essays, the writings of early religious leaders, and unique items in... See more

This is how personal vision becomes shared reality. When you build from what feels deeply true to you, your perspective becomes a lens through which others start seeing their own possibilities.

Your struggles become their stepping stones. Your discoveries become their doorways. Your journey becomes their map.

And here's what makes this approach... See more

Subsequent research by Gerstgrasser and colleagues at Stanford and MIT (arXiv:2404.01413) provides important qualification: model collapse is not inevitable if synthetic data accumulates alongside real data rather than replacing it. The pathological scenario assumes complete substitution—thoughtful data curation can prevent the worst outcomes.

" The gap: Most thought leadership frameworks focus on positioning (how to be seen) rather than generativity (how to produce genuinely new ideas).

The unexplored space is epistemic entrepreneurship—systematically creating knowledge that didn't exist before, not just repackaging or positioning existing knowledge more cleverly.

This means: treating... See more

History shows that successful adaptation requires taking active control of information filters rather than passively accepting them. Just as Renaissance scholars developed personal commonplace books to organize knowledge, and early internet users created bookmarking systems before Google dominated search, we need personalized AI curation systems... See more

The shift

So what I am proposing is a need for a radical reframe of trustworthy AI in terms of virtue ethics, i.e. to focus on the ways that AI practitioners can cultivate trustworthiness and embody that character in their work. This, I suggest, will ripple out into improved trustworthiness and greater trust in the AI products being built (not just... See more

Restraint creates emphasis. When everything is highlighted, nothing truly stands out.