Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Meaning emerges not from avoiding struggle but from choosing struggle that serves something larger than yourself.
Maalvika • why are we lying to young people about work?
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was
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AI as liberation. AI as opportunity to be more creative and human.
Marsh lays out several prerequisites for the person curating a digital exhibition. First and foremost, they need a “willingness to engage with [their] content on a level deep enough to perceive its meaning and significance." Understanding the audience, including “what they would find interesting, valuable, or compelling," is also critical. Further,... See more
Deep Synergy
Curating requires:
1. knowing deeply what’s being curated
2. understanding who you are curating for
3. intentionality and creativity
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
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
Benjamin Antoine • The Golden era of Substack is over. Now what?
what really moves the needle: how you encode, capture, and curate expertise — the contexts, mental models, and frameworks that allow your human creativity soar alongside the machine.
Corrales Cachola • When Expertise Goes Viral: Why Your Knowledge is the Killer App.
As information volume and complexity grew, simply keeping pace became a specialized profession. In other words, information specialists who do nothing but track developments in more and more narrow domains emerge.
Michael Simmons • Information Singularity: What Happens When Even AI Experts Can't Keep Up With AI
Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness.
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
There will always be creators. But the ones who stand out in this era are also curators. People who filter their worldview so cleanly that you want to see through their eyes. People who make you feel sharper just by paying attention to what they pay attention to.