Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Next come the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:
People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship... See more
Maria Popova • Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
Purpose, meaning and trust are the movers of things. Everything else is a consequence.
Being authentic, sharing value, nurturing long lasting relationships are all actions that stem from your purpose and which give meaning to it.
The natural result of developing these traits is earned trust.
Taste starts with noticing.
a) The first step is exposure.
You have to see, hear, and feel a wide range of options to understand what excellence looks like. Read great literature. Listen to great speeches. Visit great buildings. Eat great food.
b) The second is... See more
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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.
Jeremy Brown • The Case for Curation as a Service
Content Finder Toolkit
xtiles.app
Directory of 500+ sources to find all types of content from news, to images, stock music, video footage, icons, sounds, trends, data (ready for re-use). It also includes: 1) search engines 2) Tools to monitor webpages and manage RSS feeds. Manually vetted. Updated Jan 2024.
To discover, learn, see what you dream or cannot even imagine, the best path is not too listen and follow blindly what everyone else does or suggests, but to explore, try out, venture on unexplored and badly charted trails.
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Robin Good | Substack
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.