Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Then there’s curation theater.
Posting endless ‘favorite reads’ lists composed entirely of current bestsellers. Ticks the boxes, but doesn’t quite reveal taste. Reposting LinkedIn hot takes, adding cute hashtags but not really contributing much commentary
Posting endless ‘favorite reads’ lists composed entirely of current bestsellers. Ticks the boxes, but doesn’t quite reveal taste. Reposting LinkedIn hot takes, adding cute hashtags but not really contributing much commentary
Sangeet Paul Choudary • Humans as 'luxury goods' in the age of AI
The web is no longer primarily human-generated text created for human readers; it is increasingly AI-generated text created for algorithmic amplification, mixed with human-generated text optimized for the same algorithmic reward functions.
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
As AI systems train on this degraded corpus, they learn to reproduce its characteristics—shallow reasoning,... See more
Substack • The Cognitive Collapse Thesis: How Polluted Information Loops Are Degrading Both Machine and Human Intelligence—And What It Means for Capital, Power, and Civilization
Friends are better than money. Almost anything that money can do, friends can do better. In so many ways, a friend with a boat is better than owning a boat.
Kevin Kelly • '68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice ' by Kevin Kelly — Neil Pasricha
What we need is more support for the act of curation itself: Not just paying online creators for their content, but paying curators, sustaining the people who find what you like.
One Thing • ⬜ the Importance of Curation
Purpose, meaning and trust are the movers of things. Everything else is a consequence.
Being authentic, sharing value, nurturing long lasting relationships are all actions that stem from your purpose and which give meaning to it.
The natural result of developing these traits is earned trust.
You can’t curate by accident.
You can only curate something for which you have a deep interest for.
In other words: If you don’t love it, you can’t curate it.
Yes: Curators love what they curate.
So, the question that keeps me up at night is, what are us humans gonna do with all of our newfound time? Which brings me back to Japan, and this quaint Kyoto restaurant I found myself sitting in one evening. There were 10 seats, one chef/owner and one apprentice, and the most incredibly crafted experience. It wasn’t expensive, but everything was
... See moreScott Belsky • (100) The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month The Personalization Wave, A Surge of Wildly Human-Intensive Non-Scalable Experiences, & Ideas Of The Month
AI as liberation. AI as opportunity to be more creative and human.
