Robin Good

A curator’s authority comes not from personal relatability, but from perspective, context, discernment, and intellectual labour that has since been lacking in recent social media years. That authority is epistemic, not interpersonal as they reduce cognitive load and sort signal from noise. In other words, they cannot credibly hawk sheet masks or... See more

As artificial intelligence learns to predict, replicate, and endlessly optimize what is already popular, the risk is not noise but homogeneity. The future promises infinite content that is perfectly tailored, frictionless, and forgettable, generated at scale by systems trained to reinforce existing patterns. In such a landscape, taste becomes one... See more

everyone wants to be the plug now. The source. The moodboard in human form.

Curation is the new credibility.

It’s how you build with the same pieces that everyone else has; this is what makes you unique.

the Apt Curation Model , which views authorship in the age of AI as the proper steering of a generative process. According to this account, a text produced through distant writing is a genuine epistemic achievement worthy of the human author if its success is due to the author’s adroit exercise of a set of higher-order curatorial virtues.

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That’s why taste is a responsibility. It’s not just about what you like. It’s about what you allow in.

Taste is how you protect your mental environment.

Curation is less about filling a space until it feels complete and more about shaping it until it feels intentional.

Curation as a Service (or CaaS) - I believe, as the amount of content on the web increases, there will inevitably be a need for more human curators. People who are domain experts (or have an obsession with a topic) that can sift through the garbage and collect the gems.