Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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In Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture , Eilean Hooper-Greenhill documents how museum work “has involved the establishment of a canon” through which order is created “by giving authority to certain texts, figures, ideas, problems, discursive strategies and historical narratives” (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000b, 20). This process of “boundary... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Museums and the their role in developing culture - Boundary maintenance and the curation canon: can there be rules for what is of value and what is not?
Opportunity to update the museums and art gallery curation canons as well as those of who curates content and resources - of whatever kind - online
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: People with really high expectations have very low resilience
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Greatness doesn’t come from intelligence.
Great comes from having character and a strong character is informed by deep suffering.
“And now you ask in your heart, ‘How shall we distinguish that which is good in pleasure from that which is not good?’
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain... See more
Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is the pleasure of the bee to gather honey of the flower,
But it is also the pleasure of the flower to yield its honey to the bee.
For to the bee a flower is a fountain... See more
A quote from The Prophet
Curation and life nudges
“It matters where you get your dopamine. Get your dopamine from clarifying your ideas more than from their visibility.”
Sari Azout • Every Job Will Become an Art or Die
you can only delegate effectively what you understand yourself.
AI + Human: Is 1 + 1 really equal to 3?
The 2025 tastemaker navigates this tension with remarkable dexterity. They aren't anti-digital but post-digital, using online tools with intention rather than compulsion. The crucial distinction lies in their relationship with attention: Internet Cool seeks it desperately; Scene Cool appears indifferent. This studied indifference isn't affectation... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
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.
There’s a... See more
There’s a... See more
The rise of the Sovereign Creator
If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Your original thinking is your moat.
People don’t follow writers for information (they can get that anywhere). They follow writers for interpretation .
People don’t follow writers for information (they can get that anywhere). They follow writers for interpretation .