Robin Good

Build systems and cultures that embrace a tradition of criticism, remixing, and error correction.

The purpose of your life is to discover the purpose of your life.

In a world drowning in thirst for likes, views, and validation, the most radical position is genuine satiation, a complete lack of hunger for digital approval. They are deeply knowledgeable experts whose authority comes from depth of understanding rather than breadth of influence.

Today, buying products online has never been easier. Convenience is at an all-time high, and consumers have more options than ever before. It seems, once again, that there is nowhere else we need to go. And yet, this is precisely the problem.

In today’s oversaturated world, we need curators to help us separate signal from noise. Gladwell told us... See more

Curation gives even mundane objects value by connecting them with a point of view, heritage, a subculture or purpose that makes them stand out in the vortex of speed, superficiality, and newness.

To understand is to enter into a relationship with people, with things, with ideas. AI can imitate the language of relationships, but it stands outside of them. Our task is to keep knowledge alive by remaining in conversation with the world that gives it meaning.

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

In other words, to trust AI, we have to trust that those responsible for it are committed to being trustworthy as a matter of character because they recognise their responsibility to care for us.