Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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taste is the rational capacity to make good decisions about poorly defined work. Not problems with known answers. Problems where the parameters are wrong, incomplete, or haven’t been written yet.
The One Thing Jensen Huang Says AI Will Never Replace
The internet has flattened information access so thoroughly that hoarding knowledge is no longer impressive. What matters now is what you do with it. How you filter it. How you recognize signal in the noise.
Curation is the new IQ test.
Curation is the new IQ test.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." - William J. Casey, CIA Director (1981)
Robert W Malone MD, MS • The Rural Rebellion Will Decide This Election
We’re very close
Taste is first-principles thinking applied to ambiguity. It’s the skill of looking at ten valid options and identifying which one you should not pursue. Subtraction, not addition.
The One Thing Jensen Huang Says AI Will Never Replace
Curation as a Service (or CaaS) - I believe, as the amount of content on the web increases, there will inevitably be a need for more human curators. People who are domain experts (or have an obsession with a topic) that can sift through the garbage and collect the gems.
Jeremy Brown • The Case for Curation as a Service
In a world where algorithms optimise, predict, and personalise, genuine unpredictability becomes scarcer. And as a result, human taste - slow, embodied, context-dependent, and stubbornly imperfect - becomes all the more valuable.
Matteo Azzolini • Why The AI Giants Are Chasing Taste
“The life of perfection is the simple life. - A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced. It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In
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The Future and Reality
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.