Robin Good

Good luck finding your coat; the house keeps rearranging itself. If your head's spinning, good. Spin with purpose

Finally, the integrative virtue enables people to merge different elements into a single complete system. The author needs to merge AI-generated content with their personal writing and ideas to produce a unified logical final product. Our ability to process information at a basic cognitive level enables us to merge information from multiple sources... See more

[Geography of Ideas - 101]

Curators don't just point to destinations.

They show you:

• How places connect


• Which routes matter


• What others missed

Best curators are mapmakers

In this new model, the creator acts less as a source of information and more as a navigator – absorbing the cognitive burden of sorting and interpreting so the audience is relieved of it. Over time, these repeated acts of selection can accumulate into authority.

But that only occurs when the selections reflect discernible taste, alignment and a... See more

In the end, intentional arrangement is not just about organizing information – it’s about creating a framework for understanding the world. It’s about recognizing that our digital environments are not just collections of data, but complex systems that reflect our values, our beliefs and our aspirations. As we continue to build and shape these... See more

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

En este nuevo modelo, el creador actúa menos como fuente de información y más como navegador, absorbiendo la carga cognitiva de clasificar e interpretar para que la audiencia se libere de ella. Con el tiempo, estos repetidos actos de selección pueden acumularse y convertirse en autoridad.

Pero eso solo ocurre cuando las selecciones reflejan un gusto... See more

What it produces is something like hypomania: a state where your productive capacity genuinely increases. You’re not imagining that you’re getting more done, you actually are, but your evaluative faculty is unaccustomed to this mode of creation. You lose the ability to distinguish between “this is good” and “I feel good making this.” Everything... See more