Robin Good

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.

"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:

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“When we emphasize the artificially quantized, we lose access to the glorious in-between where we all actually live. [...] We lose access to the squishy, indeterminate, and speculative. [...] We are flying with instruments alone.” - Douglas Rushkoff

And that’s what real taste is: a deep internal coherence. A way of filtering the world through intuition that’s been sharpened by attention.

Your original thinking is your moat.

People don’t follow writers for information (they can get that anywhere). They follow writers for interpretation .