Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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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.
Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
Sommeliers emerged as luxury goods in a world where the product (wine) was getting commoditized, and curation was the new differentiator. That’s exactly where jobs are headed.
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
What the sommeliers figured out, before the rest of us eventually do, is that value is not in giving people more information. It’s in giving them confidence in a moment of uncertainty, making them feel like connoisseurs even if this is the first sip they’ve ever had.
“When content is infinite, curation becomes the ultimate luxury good.”
Source: Sarah Johnson - The Akin Changemaker Report 2025
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.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
The ingredients of ‘good’ curation
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
I think great curation comes down to five key elements that span the processes of searching, selection and contextualizing:
- Preservation: Caring for, reviving or resurfacing things that might otherwise be lost or forgotten in archives or streams.
- Connection: Inspiring moments of surprise –, “I didn’t think of
Rachel Botsman • How to curate your life to find more meaning
Fascinating Future
“Civium is a way of looking at cities, and specifically what a post-city world might look like.
It imagines an alliance between technology and the countryside replacing the city as the focus of creativity and wealth-creation.
It is the idea that there is no longer much point living in the middle of a large conurbation when you can
... See moreThat’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.
Taste is how you protect your mental environment.
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
There is an extreme kind of philosophical skepticism – dating back to the ancient Greek Pyrrho – that there is no such thing as “truth” or the answer. We have only interpretations.
Into the brave and reckless hearts of explorers
The value of curation is in the interpretation for an audience
Life and life nudges
The best treatment for feeling good again: to dance.
Source: https://twitter.com/erikphoel/status/1760338273153568956a:
via: Jakob Greenfeld https://brainstorms.substack.com/p/business-brainstorms-my-favorite-07a