We all have that one piece of content an article, a talk, a thread that genuinely changed how we think about something.
For me it was "1,000 True Fans" by Kevin Kelly. The idea that you don't need millions of followers to build a sustainable creative career completely shifted how I think about building audiences. It is also one of the core ideas behind Copus helping people build real, engaged communities around the content they care about.
I've been thinking about how the people who curate information are becoming more valuable than the people who create it. There is so much content now that finding the signal in the noise is the real skill.
Some of my favorite curators:
- Brain Pickings (Maria Popova) years of deep literary/philosophical curation
Thought experiment: if you had to delete all your bookmarks and could only keep 10, which ones would survive?
I think the answer reveals a lot about what we actually value vs what we mindlessly save. Most of us have hundreds or thousands of saved links we will never revisit.
