Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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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
life nudges and Reality
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: People with really high expectations have very low resilience
youtube.comPeople with high expectations have very low resilience
Greatness doesn’t come from intelligence.
Great comes from having character and a strong character is informed by deep suffering.
I think of taste like a radar. As you move through the world, your radar scans and picks up on what aligns.
Holly Meredith Bossung • The Art of Personal Taste
What aligns is what resonates with your values, perspective and ideals. Taste is the way you adopt, represent and show such resonance.
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.
50 Things That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago
The ancients anchored it in kinship. Modernity anchored it in law. Our digital age anchors it in verification and verified data. Perhaps the future lies not in replacing one anchor with another, but in braiding them — A trust that is both verifiable and humane, both algorithmic and moral, both scalable and soulful. Because in the end, the goal is not merely to make trust work — but to make it worth something.
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
Kim Kardashian doesn’t wear archival Galliano because it’s expensive; she wears it because it’s impossible to obtain.
In luxury, scarcity drives desire, but contemporary scarcity is manufactured. Limited drops, seasonal exclusives, and numbered editions are ultimately all accessible to anyone with enough money. True archives are different. They’re... See more
In luxury, scarcity drives desire, but contemporary scarcity is manufactured. Limited drops, seasonal exclusives, and numbered editions are ultimately all accessible to anyone with enough money. True archives are different. They’re... See more
Why Fashion Is Obsessed With Archives
We have lost our ability to navigate by the stars, to identify edible plants in the wild, or to craft tools from raw materials. Yet among all these diminished aptitudes, one stands out as uniquely disastrous in its disappearance: our capacity for deep, sustained attention. This cognitive faculty, once the cornerstone of human achievement and... See more