Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Question the common belief that happiness is the primary purpose of life.
Consider instead that a life aimed at being useful—creating, helping others, and making a difference—could be more fulfilling and meaningful.
Darius Foroux via Glasp
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.
One Thing • ⬜ the Importance of Curation
The internet has flattened information access so thoroughly that hoarding knowledge is no longer impressive. What matters now is what you do with it. How you filter it. How you recognize signal in the noise.
Curation is the new IQ test.
Curation is the new IQ test.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
The share of human-agent and agent-agent interactions in the economy will increase over time, with agents engaging in price negotiation, placing orders from one another, coordinating supply and demand, and even rating each other to assign trustworthiness scores.
Faster Horses
In a world of perpetual data overload, [curation] implies information design and selectivity: the channeling, filtering, and organization into intelligible and usable information; the digging up of new or long ignored cultural corpora. Most of these corpora are simply sitting in storage: less than 1% of the Smithsonian Institution’s permanent... See more
Todd Presner • The Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0
"Ideas that spread—whether firing neurons, viral memes, or galaxy formation—exist at the threshold between order and disorder. Too stable, nothing propagates. Too chaotic, nothing coheres.
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
The pattern: small perturbations occasionally cascade into massive reorganizations (power law distribution).
For thought leadership, this means:
Your idea needs... See more
Michael Simmons • This One Article Written By AI Will Change How You Interact With AI Forever (At Least It Did With Me)
“The life of perfection is the simple life. - A simple life is one of plainness, in which profit is discarded, cleverness abandoned, selfishness eliminated, and desires reduced. It is the life of perfection which seems to be incomplete, and of fullness which seems to be empty. It is the life which is as bright as light, but does not dazzle. In
... See moreIn other words, to trust AI, we have to trust that those responsible for it are committed to being trustworthy as a matter of character because they recognise their responsibility to care for us.
"Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"
This bet—that domain-specific human expertise matters more than volume of human annotation—represents one theory of how to maintain quality in an increasingly synthetic information environment.