Robin Good

If knowledge is causal, creative, and world-shaping, then we’re now in an era where what you know — and how expertly you encode and refine it — can literally shape the world (and beyond).

In an era of information abundance, the ability to filter effectively has become a premium skill. Good taste is cultural literacy: knowing the right references, understanding history, and recognising what matters beneath the surface noise.

We're living through transformation so rapid that yesterday's breakthrough becomes today's infrastructure becomes tomorrow's archaeological curiosity becomes next week's "remember when" meme.

what corporations had branded as “artificial intelligence” was not property to be monetized but a commons to be cultivated - not a resource to be extracted but a collaborator in becoming.

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

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.