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Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans
Modern aspiration is not about having money to buy things, but having taste to know what to buy. That’s where human curation comes in, and why it’s increasingly considered both a differentiator in fashion, food, travel, wellness, design, and an important value-add for tech platforms from Spotify to Netflix and HBO to Facebook and Apple.
andjelicaaa.substack.com • Move Over Influencers, Here Come Curators
The job of being a curator becomes more important as abundance and variety increase
Alex Danco • Positional Scarcity
When we look back over the past 100 years, traditional commerce (and the culture it indirectly endorsed) was primarily curated by a single person’s point-of-view. Even when commerce moved online, to places like Amazon or Farfetch, retailers still controlled the types of things consumers purchased. Online commerce didn’t innovate a new shopping expe... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
In Curators are the new Creators, Gaby argues that this will create opportunities for curators — increasingly, we will pay people with good taste to help us sort through the ever-growing mass of information.
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The Browse... See more
The business of good taste has been well documented. There are plenty of businesses that address the question “what should I read?”; The Browse... See more