Rick Rubin, famous music executive, curates the Tetragrammaton - an online blog that curates and transmits culture. I visited the site today to listen to a playlist curated by Quest Love , curated music streaming on the radio, and a visual of Perseus and Andromeda riding off (perhaps into the sunset?)?
Curation is interesting. Someone with taste, however you want to define it, collects interesting things and presents them to you. By experiencing the world through that person’s senses, you get new models of experiencing the world. In a sense, your “empathy” (loosest sense of the word) expands.
Experiencing more different things with an open mind is a key factor in generating new ideas and being open to new and different people. Economists might call this form of personal development a gain from trade.
Why deny ourselves gains?