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.
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
I m Handuo, one of Copus s founders. We launched a version of Copus here more than a year ago. That version focuses on content creation and has since become a home for half a million Chinese fanfiction enthusiasts. This time we built a NEW Copus with a different focus: curation .
Every like, bookmark, and share is a taste signal. Until now, only algorithms and ad networks profited from yours. Copus turns your taste into an asset you own. Save as you browse, and every curation grows a structured taste profile. Subscribe to people whose taste you trust. Share your profile with ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Deepseek, or Mistral for answers that actually understand you. Monetize when people or AI access your curation. Open source, fully exportable, and becoming decentralized.
An inspiration network where creators support each other with shared exposure and earning.
Content can address other content as “sources” by sharing with them a part of its future revenue, in exchange for exposure.
