Robin Good

Good luck finding your coat; the house keeps rearranging itself. If your head's spinning, good. Spin with purpose

“Everything we come into contact with has the potential to influence our taste. So the art of living well includes the art of feeding your input stream.” — Rick Rubin

A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of discovery. Talking about your ideas with other people is a good way to develop them. But even after doing this,... See more

Believe the same things you do

Want the same thing you want

Want to get there the same way you got there

Sell to the people who want the lifestyle you have because of the skills you developed and the process you used.

The curator of the digital world is positioned as mediator and tastemaker, using content created elsewhere as raw material for the making of meaning.

From Attention to Appreciation

In an era of AI-driven automated creation, true rarity lies in the meaning behind content and in our ability to discern what truly deserves to be seen, read, or experienced. The culture of abundance calls for an ethic of the eye—a deliberate, mindful way of seeing that values depth over distraction

Consistency isn't enough . Being consistently wrong kills you.

Being consistently willing to change direction saves you.

That an individual can him- or herself shape the way people understand the world is not itself radically new; however, concomitant with the rise in data has been what Clay Shirky has called a “cognitive surplus” (Shirky, 2010), whereby the connection and aggregation of humanity via the network also makes it possible to aggregate humankind’s time... See more