Maria Popova
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Count me as a Popova fanboy since first encounter, 2017 or so, when I started following her Brain Pickings blog. It might have been via Amanda Palmer, or perhaps Rebecca Solnit ...

Maria Popova Wikipedia

The Art of Curation: An Interview with Maria Popova from BrainPickings 2010

Curation is all about pattern-recognition, seeing how various and diverse pieces of content fit together under the same taste umbrella or along the same narrative path...

...I apologize for the number of times I've just used the word "curation" and its derivatives. I feel like we've reached a cultural point at which every time someone uses the word "curation" in reference to content and publishing, an actual museum curator kills a kitten.

10 Learnings from 10 Years of Brain Pickings 2016

Brain Pickings: a really good website The Disciples Of Design 2018

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Why the Sky and the Ocean Are Blue: Rebecca Solnit on the Color of Distance and Desire Brain Pickings 2014

Rebecca Solnit w/ Maria Popova December 12, 2016 San Francisco City Arts and Lectures

Rebecca Solnit on Breaking Silence as Our Mightiest Weapon Against Oppression Brain Pickings 2017