Robin Good

Museums act as filters for cultural abundance. Only so much can be kept within museum storerooms or displayed in exhibitions. Limited word counts on exhibition texts require the winnowing down of very large topics to the small and essential. Many core museum functions, from the selection of what objects and information should be kept through to... See more

I get it. You pour your soul onto the page, and it’s crushing when no one seems to care. That’s human. But if you’re not careful, the need for validation starts steering the work.

You bend your tone. You chase trends. You lose the very thing that made you worth reading in the first place.

And the things is the more you write to grow , the less your... See more

According to Bourdieu (1979): ‘social subjects, classified by their classifications, distinguish themselves by the distinctions they make, between the beautiful and the ugly, the distinguished and the vulgar, in which their position in the objective classifications is expressed or betrayed.’

In other words, social classes define their preferences,... See more

What we need is more support for the act of curation itself: Not just paying online creators for their content, but paying curators, sustaining the people who find what you like.

The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.

According to Bourdieu, taste doesn’t simply come from preferences or data points. It comes from habitus - the system of experiences gained by a person through their upbringing, education, and social environment. Because of this, taste is embodied: it’s the way certain things feel immediately right and others immediately wrong, without being able to... See more

Think about your own consumption habits. Do you actually want more news articles? Do you want more investment white papers? Or do you want one specific person, whose intellect and ethics you trust implicitly, to tell you, “Ignore the noise. Read these three things. They are the only ones that matter.”

That service—the removal of noise—is infinitely... See more

Algorithms reward instant gratification, though your audience may prefer more depth and insights.

To stay visible, focus on synthesizing without losing depth.

Much of the debate about AI in research gets stuck on whether AI is “really” intelligent. I think this is the wrong question. The right question is whether the interaction produces useful research output. Rejecting AI-assisted research because “AI isn’t intelligent” is like rejecting research that used a calculator because “calculators don’t... See more