Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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In popular discourse, “curation” has been diluted to mean picking a few interesting links for a social feed. Real curation is far more rigorous: a four-part practice of intellectual metabolism.
Selection is the first move, determining what is worth keeping at all. This requires a judgment of signal versus noise that is only possible with deep... See more
Selection is the first move, determining what is worth keeping at all. This requires a judgment of signal versus noise that is only possible with deep... See more
The Field That Saw This Coming
At its core, taste is self-trust.
Every time you choose something because it feels right (not because it’s trending) you strengthen that inner compass that says, I can rely on my own discernment.
Every time you choose something because it feels right (not because it’s trending) you strengthen that inner compass that says, I can rely on my own discernment.
sydney rheeder 𖣠 • the power of knowing what you like
Curation and Knowledge Management
"Agriculture made towns and cities possible, made it possible to meet and associate with far more people than was possible in hunter-gatherer tribes.
Eventually, poets could meet poets, artists could meet artists, and musicians, musicians. The potential of a group of competent musicians is so much greater than the sum of them all in ones and twos.
But large cities have been with us for thousands of years now, and somehow the advances brought on by civilisation seem to have run dry, and urban decay has begun to manifest.
Provided that people can still communicate and work together, the next step forward in human cultural terms might well be independent from physical proximity – it might be through association by choice.
Perhaps now is a good time for the better application of those information technologies that have been developed in recent decades, in supporting storage and reuse: not of food, as in neolithic times, nor even of money, where information technology applied to finance has enabled both wonderful and dreadful things.
It is now the turn of personal information to be the focus of the new technology – information technology – so that we can present ourselves and the values we have chosen to others, and let that information be used for the further positive transformation of society."
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Substack • Search "curation" on Substack
“Bad news: The foremost experts in cultural analysis are reporting concepts and phrases which are statistically commonplace. [...] We’ve lost sight of what it means to be brave. It feels like our facilities for riskiness and imagination have atrophied.”
Meta Trends 2024 by Matt Klein
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
Over the past year, working on a book on curation, I have interviewed more than 30 curators—art and conference curators, creative directors, Instagram influencers, radio hosts, coders, and genetic engineers—and all agreed that saying no is at the core of the curatorial ethos . Saying no defines what matters.
Can We Still Curate This World?
“Content curation... enables brands to create an environment that people continually return to as a knowledge resource on a particular topic or issue. In doing so, brands set themselves up as an authority, but more importantly, an impartial authority – by not just profiling their own content or views. This is a great way to diffuse the sense of... See more