Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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Do you see yourself as an entrepreneur or a creator?
This is an important question to answer.
It’s tempting to lie to yourself. However, being truthful about your motivations is essential.
While there is obvious overlap between entrepreneurs and creators there... See more
Benjamin Antoinesubstack.comentrepreneur vs creator
what are the differences?
I have yet to find a single writer who’s grown a serious following without some kind of niche.
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more
That doesn’t mean boxing yourself in. It means starting with something clear enough for people to get what you’re about, and specific enough for the right readers to find you.
The first six months are for you. Experiment like crazy. Write about anything.... See more
Benjamin Antoine • The Golden era of Substack is over. Now what?
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 .
Nicolas Cole • The one thing AI can't do for you
We're not climbing a hill of progress; we've been shot out of a cannon of acceleration, blindfolded and hoping for a soft landing. Welcome to the velocity of now, where the future arrives before we've processed the present, and the past recedes so swiftly it requires professionals to remind us what existed just five years ago.
50 Things That Didn’t Exist Five Years Ago
everyone has taste and not everyone’s taste is for everyone. Different taste attracts different people. The job is not to have the right taste. The job is to know yours, be decisive about it, and trust that the work made from a decisive position will reach the people whose taste it is for. The rest is performance.
Zoë Yasemin • The End of Taste as Currency
Social media platforms face a structural contradiction that current valuations do not adequately price. Their business model requires maximizing engagement. The research demonstrates that engagement-optimized content degrades both the AI systems trained on it and the humans consuming it.
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
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