Robin Good

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.

If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.

Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more

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

Lessons for Managing Today's Overwhelm:

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... See more

• Trust isn't a commodity you can acquire or ask AI to generate for you.

• Trust is a consequence of consistent actions, authentic interactions, and genuine value delivery.

• Trust cannot be gained by leveraging pushy marketing tactics, frameworks, hooks, and funnels.

• Trust can only be obtained by showing that your first interest is not your gain, but

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In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.

According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more

Here’s the part artists often miss: people use taste as a shortcut for trust.

An art director doesn’t just hire someone because the work is good. They hire someone because the artist’s taste suggests they’ll make good decisions under pressure. A collector doesn’t just buy an image — they buy into a worldview. A fan doesn’t just follow output; they

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Taste is not something you either have or you don’t. It’s something you build every time you make a decision about what to post and what not to, and those decisions, over time, are what make you worth following.