Robin Good

Same thing with experiences. We collect travel destinations like we are checking boxes on some cosmic to-do list. Forty countries before forty. Every national park. Every Instagram-famous café. We move so fast trying to acquire the experience that we never actually have it. A curator would slow down. Would spend three days in one museum instead of... See more

Attention, like energy, behaves differently depending on the structure that contains it.

“When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

I suppose you could call that gift “ taste .”

But what I love about this quote is that it’s not the... See more

Next come the megalomaniacs , who may be talented and motivated, but are bedeviled by a deadly overconfidence that ultimately renders them careless and unrigorous in their work. Cajal writes:

People with this type of failure are characterized by noble and winning traits. They study a great deal, but love personal activities as well. They worship

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We are now operating inside an ecosystem defined by automation, algorithmic decisioning, and data-driven optimization. Transactions move faster than relationships can form. Artificial intelligence increasingly intermediates judgment. Metrics have replaced meaning as the default language of value. And yet, amid this acceleration, a paradox has... See more

Ce que la curation implique, et que la sélection n’implique pas, c’est la responsabilité. Le curateur signe ses choix. Il peut se tromper et sa réputation en dépend. Cette prise de risque intellectuel est ce qui distingue un acte curatorial d’un acte algorithmique et c’est précisément ce qui lui confère de la valeur dans un monde où les algorithmes... See more

It’s 2026. People are no longer buying missions or hustle. They’re buying taste and objects that help them exercise that taste in the world.

We’re entering what I call the Taste Curation Renaissance, a shift away from content-as-advertising toward content-as-world-building.

This problem of overabundance is why I wrote my piece last year. As consumption of digital media increased, we began to see a larger volume of curators — coolhunters, just like Gladwell had outlined in ’97, but this time in a digital space. On Tumblr, this looked like blogs of curated art or photography; on Pinterest, we saw well-crafted... See more

Algorithms reward instant gratification, though your audience may prefer more depth and insights.

To stay visible, focus on synthesizing without losing depth.