Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Good luck finding your coat; the house keeps rearranging itself. If your head's spinning, good. Spin with purpose
50 Things That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago
HI AI and The Future
Content Curation Toolkit 2.0
Based on existing SuperGuide but with the use of affiliate links for tools
Collecting and organizing all tools needed / connected / related to the job of curating content. Organizing them into separate groups defined by the need / activity / problem. Joining affiliate programs of tools / apps that offer such opportunity.
... See moreTo understand the role of a curator today, think of a sieve in a gold rush: the AI provides the massive pile of silt and sand (the data), but the curator's "taste" is the mesh that allows the worthless dirt to fall through while catching the rare, valuable nuggets of gold. Without the sieve, you just have a pile of dirt; with it, you have a... See more
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The conversation around taste tends to focus on what it takes to develop it, but not what it takes to use it and unlock its potential, which is confidence .
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which... See more
Having and developing taste is one thing, but remaining connected to our taste is another. In order to take advantage of our taste, we have to be able to access its insights and guidance, which... See more
Taste as a Function of Confidence
But what I began to notice, through all of it, was that something felt increasingly off. Not just in my own experience, but in the culture surrounding it. What once felt full of possibility had started to feel constricted. The language of freedom was still there, but beneath it was a kind of pressure that didn’t feel creative at all.
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The rise of the Sovereign Creator
The curator relationship operates at a fundamentally different psychological level than advertising. An algorithm might know you like blue Oxford shirts, but a tastemaker knows why a particular blue Oxford matters in a lineage of blue Oxfords. This contextual knowing, placing objects in historical and cultural frameworks rather than recommendation... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
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
In the face of AI that standardizes perfection, human traces—mistakes, smudges, scribbles—will become marks of authenticity and emotion. Imperfection will be a luxury. Uniqueness, a rare privilege.
Marie Dollé • 20 reflections on AI
Imperfection will be a luxury.
WILD BARE THOUGHTS
How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me
because taste is self-pursuit—and self-pursuit requires taste
stepfanie tyler
Jul 16, 2025
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Most people think AI makes you lose yourself. That it kills taste. That algorithms flatten us into sameness, rewarding short attention spans, cheap aesthetics, and dopamine over... See more
How I Use AI to Sharpen My Taste and Pursue the Real Me
because taste is self-pursuit—and self-pursuit requires taste
stepfanie tyler
Jul 16, 2025
∙ Paid
Most people think AI makes you lose yourself. That it kills taste. That algorithms flatten us into sameness, rewarding short attention spans, cheap aesthetics, and dopamine over... See more