Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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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
Thomas Klaffke • Unframing the Future
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.
"Why Don't Some People Trust My AI?"
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
Marsh lays out several prerequisites for the person curating a digital exhibition. First and foremost, they need a “willingness to engage with [their] content on a level deep enough to perceive its meaning and significance." Understanding the audience, including “what they would find interesting, valuable, or compelling," is also critical. Further,... See more
Deep Synergy
Curating requires:
1. knowing deeply what’s being curated
2. understanding who you are curating for
3. intentionality and creativity
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.
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
That’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
“Life runs on sunlight. Life rewards cooperation. Life builds from the bottom up. Life banks on diversity. Life recycles everything. Life builds resilience through diversity, decentralization, and redundancy. Life optimizes rather than maximizes. Life selects for the good of the whole system. In short, life creates the conditions conducive to... See more
Thomas Klaffke • Natural Intelligence
In the age of content over-abundance, information by itself - a link, a pointer, a recommendation to check out something - is merely fuel in a tank. Ignitable but useless if not inside an engine.
Same for information. Without strong context it is basically worthless. Unusable by human beings.
Curating knowledge infrastructures is the way through... See more
Same for information. Without strong context it is basically worthless. Unusable by human beings.
Curating knowledge infrastructures is the way through... See more