Curation Forces Curiosity

Detail from an illustration by John H. Tercuzzi from the National Gallery of Art. One of the main reasons I like sending out an email newsletter is that it forces me to be curious about things. I mean, I’m naturally curious about things, but I have found that—as the world gets more complicated and moves at an unsustainable pace—that curiosity starts to get sanded down. I feel information overload very acutely and the first thing to suffer is my sense of curiosity. If there’s too much t...