Robin Good

The role of a curator is fairly nuanced and involves the care, management, and interpretation of collections in museums, galleries, libraries, or other cultural institutions. Curators are responsible for selecting, researching, preserving, and exhibiting items, as well as educating the public about them. Essentially, curators act as stewards of... See more

It’s 2026. People are no longer buying missions or hustle. They’re buying taste and objects that help them exercise that taste in the world.

We’re entering what I call the Taste Curation Renaissance, a shift away from content-as-advertising toward content-as-world-building.

helping readers discover work they’ll actually subscribe to.

But the deepest form of trust, Potter argues, is when “a prediction of being well-treated... is grounded in a belief not only in the other’s good will toward oneself but in a belief that the other’s good will is part of a more general disposition that extends beyond the context of this particular relationship” (p. 5). In other words, the reason... See more

Writing on methods for gathering ideas, Seneca, the great stoic, suggests that authors should imitate the bees. Like a bee flying among the flowers, we ought to vary our reading and extract useful material from various sources.

The reason we’re so increasingly intolerant of long articles and why we skim them, why we skip forward even in a short video that reduces a 300-page book into a three-minute animation — even in that we skip forward — is that we’ve been infected with this kind of pathological impatience that makes us want to have the knowledge but not do the work of... 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

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