Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Curation is an act of illuminating [something that is not us].
Curation Monetized
Curation is the act of illuminating something
All curation grows until it requires search, and all search grows until it requires curation.
ben-evans.com • Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
Future of Search and Context and Curation
The age of directories is upon us.
To discover, learn, see what you dream or cannot even imagine, the best path is not too listen and follow blindly what everyone else does or suggests, but to explore, try out, venture on unexplored and badly charted trails.
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Because unless you explore, there’s nothing you can discover .
Robin Good | Substack
Curating = Unpacking for a General Audience
Thomas B. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, shares in this TED video, his journey to become a respected museum curator, and the valuable discoveries and insights realized along the way.
This passage, in particular, struck with me louder than a thousand words:
"We live in an age of ubiquitous information, and sort of "just add water" expertise, but there's nothing that compares with the presentation of significant objects in a well-told narrative... what the curator does, the interpretation of a complex, esoteric subject, in a way that retains the integrity of the subject, that makes it -- unpacks it for a general audience."
AI can generate a thousand articles while I drink my morning coffee. But it can't tell me which ones matter. It can't feel the resonance of a perfect sentence or know why a particular image stops me in my tracks.
That's what I do now. I collect resonance. Not information - we're drowning in that - but the stuff that makes my soul hum at a different
... See moreLooking for the source of this content. Who wrote it and where was it first published?
In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
In the age of content over-abundance, information by itself - a link, a pointer, a recommendation to check out something - is merely fuel in a tank. Ignitable but useless if not inside an engine.
Same for information. Without strong context it is basically worthless. Unusable by human beings.
Curating knowledge infrastructures is the way through... See more
Same for information. Without strong context it is basically worthless. Unusable by human beings.
Curating knowledge infrastructures is the way through... See more
WriteStack | Schedule & Automate Substack Notes
not letting algorithms decide what deserves your attention. If you want to feel creatively and intellectually alive, stop mindlessly consuming the internet and start mindfully curating it. You need a space away from social media's compulsive rhythm, where your ideas can grow at their own pace
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
"The #1 best practice for thought leadership is having a genuine, falsifiable point of view that risks being wrong.
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more
Most "thought leaders" synthesize safe consensus. Real thought leadership stakes a claim others can disagree with, test, and potentially disprove. This creates productive tension that attracts attention, invites debate, and forces you... See more