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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."

"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."
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