Robin Good

Listen up, guys: this is good [drawing a question mark on the board]... and this is bad [drawing an exclamation point].

Good is doubt, when you meet someone who doubts, relax, it means they're a good person, it means they're democratic, tolerant.

But when you meet these ones [pointing at the exclamation point], those who are certain, with

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helping readers discover work they’ll actually subscribe to.

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

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But taste requires subtraction. It means not participating in every viral moment. It means not resharing something just because it’s getting attention. It means opting out of the churn.

That doesn’t mean being contrarian for the sake of it. It means noticing when the culture’s default setting no longer reflects what’s true for you—and walking away.

Collectors are hedging their bets. Keeping options open. Avoiding commitment because what if something better comes along. Curators make choices. They build around a vision. They understand that committing to one thing means letting go of another and that is not a loss. That is how meaning gets made.

what really moves the needle: how you encode, capture, and curate expertise — the contexts, mental models, and frameworks that allow your human creativity soar alongside the machine.

you can only delegate effectively what you understand yourself.

Curation has historically emerged at moments when institutions failed to provide coherence. Salons rose when the Church and monarchy lost epistemic control; DJs rose when record labels could no longer define taste; curators rise today because algorithms are riddled with decision fatigue, influencers are intrinsic to their own needs, and the... See more

Social media platforms face a structural contradiction that current valuations do not adequately price. Their business model requires maximizing engagement. The research demonstrates that engagement-optimized content degrades both the AI systems trained on it and the humans consuming it.