Robin Good

Music

Disorganized information is just noise .

Organized info, contextualized for a specific audience / need is music .

It feels right. (By def it matches an audience's specific interests/problems.)

It has a cool sound. (Brings non-obvious insights (new melodies).)

It’s infinite. (Helps me discover and appreciate more music and artists.)

A recommendation from Emily Sundberg's Feed Me isn't an endorsement; it's an anointing. The mechanism isn't mysterious: curators build trust not by being right but by being wrong in interesting ways. They earn the right to be occasionally mystifying because they've proven they're making actual choices rather than optimising for metrics. This... See more

The Curator is one such archetype: defined by a bias toward control, a gift for editing rather than inventing, and a heightened sensitivity to detail.

Unlike influencers, curators do not lead with self-exposure, but with interpretation. A curator’s authority comes not from personal relatability, but from perspective, context, discernment, and intellectual labour that has since been lacking in recent social media years.

“Cultivating infinite devotion is the prerequisite for becoming great in any field.

The external rewards typically take so long to appear that the people who ultimately persist to success are the ones who cultivate their internal motivation to the point where the external rewards are just the cherry on top, not the core goal.

From the outside,

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The winning strategies over the next decade will not be those that maximize short-term AI deployment. They will be those that build and maintain access to high-quality information flows—genuine human expertise, carefully curated training corpora, institutional knowledge that has not been corrupted by synthetic recursion.

Then there’s curation theater.

Posting endless ‘favorite reads’ lists composed entirely of current bestsellers. Ticks the boxes, but doesn’t quite reveal taste. Reposting LinkedIn hot takes, adding cute hashtags but not really contributing much commentary