Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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High agency is such an important idea because the more agency an individual or society has -- the more problems they can solve.
High agency can be a confusing idea to understand because it’s not just one idea. It’s a combination of three distinct skills rarely found together:
High agency can be a confusing idea to understand because it’s not just one idea. It’s a combination of three distinct skills rarely found together:
- Clear thinking
- Bias to action
- Disagreeability
George Mack • High Agency In 30 Minutes
Trust isn't a commodity you can acquire or ask AI to generate for you.
Trust is a consequence of consistent actions, authentic interactions, and genuine value delivery.
Trust cannot be gained by leveraging pushy marketing tactics, frameworks, hooks, and funnels.
Trust can only be obtained by showing that your first interest is not your gain, but
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
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
The Field That Saw This Coming
When you share what influences you, you’re not distracting from your work. You’re giving people a framework for understanding it.
The Role of Taste
I have yet to find a single writer who’s grown a serious following without some kind of niche.
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more
Benjamin Antoine • The Golden era of Substack is over. Now what?
The future doesn’t lie in the tool itself but in how it becomes an extension of our uniqueness. It depends on our ability to delegate to AI tasks that don’t require our essence, avoiding the risk of losing ourselves in abundance. This won’t be an era of mass content but of scarcity, where each custom agent embodies a unique vision and