Robin Good

You can curate any kind of experience you want through presentation alone.

AI augmentation is a future requirement, but remain mindful of what’s outsourced. Going forward, we need more demanding journeys than we do mindless shortcuts. Shortcuts rarely yield fun, stories or lessons. If it's easy, it likely isn’t worthwhile.

In popular discourse, “curation” has been diluted to mean picking a few interesting links for a social feed. Real curation is far more rigorous: a four-part practice of intellectual metabolism.

Selection is the first move, determining what is worth keeping at all. This requires a judgment of signal versus noise that is only possible with deep... See more

[ Knowledge Gardens ]

Every carefully tended knowledge garden is a fingerprint of consciousness: A unique archipelago of interests, insights and inspirations that could never be replicated, even by the most sophisticated AI.

By thoughtfully collecting and connecting the ideas that move us, we not only create an invaluable external memory system... See more

The only way I’m reading something is if there’s an extremely strong trust signal — which basically means it’s been written or boosted by someone I’ve heard of. Otherwise my default position is scepticism.

In such an environment, making it as a “nobody” is nearly impossible.