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"Curators engage more deeply than consumers but not as deeply as creators. To curate is to deliberately interact over time, so the consumer experience of designed-for-non-thought doesn't work. In contrast, curation doesn't map to instrumental objectives in the way that creation does. Creation has, for the most part, a point—an implicit or explicit downstream outcome or higher-order effect that is both desirable and conceivably connected to the activities of creatorhood.

Curators are thus a unique group. Their attention is sharp and bright and deployed for its own sake. To a curator, friction is the coarse material that strikes a match to flame. For them, no friction means no fire. But too much friction means no fire, as well. The right amount of friction for curators is not zero. But it's not much more than zero, either."
https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/non-zero-friction

"Slow is smooth; smooth is fast" doctrines applies to curators. Less so to typical consumer UX or creator tooling.

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Humm… I’m already intrigued by this! Bookmarking it to read (and comment on) it later.

Off the bat I can say I’ve been seeing more and more the Curator entering the arena, and more attention being devoted to its role and what that might even be.
It seems that, with the so called Creator economy maturing, the need for curation has become more needed, urgent even. 

In a context where algorithmic recommendations are dry or just more of the same at best, or simply paid ads in disguise at worst, I can understand the need for a Curator to hand pick content and add some humanity and relevance to the process.


@tombeck.eth has a fantastic piece on it, and @joanwestenberg.eth has also written about it, if I’m not mistaken.

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Clocked @tombeck.eth's piece already. What makes this all so interesting is that the people needed to plug the gaps in existing cultural infrastructure already exist—they're just underserved/overlooked/disenfranchised by current systems/paradigms. Hence @subset :D

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Clocked @tombeck.eth's piece already. What makes this all so interesting is that the people needed to plug the gaps in existing cultural infrastructure already exist—they're just underserved/overlooked/disenfranchised by current systems/paradigms. Hence @subset :D
https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/relationships-and-progress
https://paragraph.xyz/@subset/tools-for-third-places

Bookmarked your piece and added it to my reading queue! Excited to read more. Also, this statement right here...

"...the people needed to plug the gaps in existing cultural infrastructure already exist—they're just underserved/overlooked/disenfranchised by current systems/paradigms."

...is right on target. And they've been underserved for so long. Big opportunity here for those who can get it right.

Anyway, more thoughts after I read your piece.