Robin Good
@robingood
The *curation guy* - indie author, speaker, advisor - focus on empowering subject-matter experts, artists, creators.
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If creators were once the internet’s golden children , producing original content to feed our insatiable scroll, this next phase belongs to someone else: the curator. Not necessarily the loudest voice or the most prolific, but the most discerning.
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of flo... See more
Curators are the new digital tastemakers, and their currency isn’t volume - it’s taste. Instead of flo... See more
The Creator-Curator Hybrid
Thomas P. Campbell: Weaving narratives in museum galleries
ted.com
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."
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.
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
Embrace curation as a core brand function . Brands that filter and contextualise effectively create substantial value, particularly in categories suffering from choice overload. Create "digital gardens" where content is organised by human meaning rather than algorithmic relevance. Consider how your brand can function as a trusted filter rather than... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
“When content is infinite, curation becomes the ultimate luxury good.”
Source: Sarah Johnson - The Akin Changemaker Report 2025
A recommendation from Emily Sundberg's Feed Me isn't an endorsement; it's an anointing. The mechanism isn't mysterious: curators build trust not by being right but by being wrong in interesting ways. They earn the right to be occasionally mystifying because they've proven they're making actual choices rather than optimising for metrics. This explai... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
It’s happening in the background, away from performance, away from the algorithm. Rather than worrying about audience, these are intimacy tools.The most powerful cultural spaces right now are ones you can’t search for. You’re invited in, or you miss it.We spent a decade learning how to go viral. Now, the clever ones are learning how to go quiet.
There's a new cultural infrastructure. An invisible layer powering… | James Kirkham | 49 comments
This is the new cultural infrastructure. It is lo-fi, discreet, decentralised.
‘Scene Cool’ values high quality over high sales, fellow tastemakers over mass-market followers, and specific geographical context over post-geographic audiences. While ‘Internet Cool’ chases clout and virality across global digital networks.
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they wi... See more
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they wi... See more