thejorgemedina

Why you can’t cut corners around UX/UI, but how to effectively tackle it.

The imperative need for Founders to build a personal brand.

The practice of consistent imperfection. Your hack to start taking action.

I think it has to do with the fact that you can't like if you're not a substack user. Also, I don't think it reached the top because most people agreed with it, maybe the opposite.

So they might be reading (i got around 7k views on it) but not liking it haha

Curation is only the first step of the framework i'm building called The Creative Flywheel. So you're right. It is not enough.

But the sentence you highlight means creators are very good curators. They learn from other creators and carefully select their sources of inspiration, then they ideate on their own, and finally create.

The cycle goes Curation > Ideation > Creation > Distribution.

That article is only dedicated to the first step. But I have another talking about the blueprint of creativity where I go over the 4 in less detail.

Having enlightening experiences of learning requires effort. Anybody who wants to learn and thrive on any topic needs to make an effort to curate the sources he's consuming. That's not new. It certainly isn't an internet thing.

We've always paid to be entertained and educated. And money is earned with effort. When content wasn't as abundant, you needed to be selective with what you wanted to consume. You developed a taste, and continued to consume that type of content, hence basically becoming a curator of whatever your interest was.

The problem now, with all content being free, is that we pay with our time. And time is our most valuable currency.

So yes. Even though there's an initial effort curve to build a Second brain (or any other system you like), the end result is a much better internet experience.

My point is that there's also good that can come out of social media. Completely disregarding any social media as useless and a waste of time is wrong, in my opinion.

My point is to start blocking so that you can turn whatever social media of your choosing into an enriching experience, rather than a doom scrolling one.

But of course, even if you do so, we should all keep a limit on our internet consumption as a whole.