An unprecedented era of (free) content...

...especially written content.
A massive percentage of the world's population now has the capability to create content and place it in a location where the recipient of their content can be almost anyone, almost anywhere.

This is amazing.

This is scary.

This is overwhelming.

This is latent with potential.

This is why it is crucial to have access to deeply rich content curators.

It is neither possible nor practical for an individual to sift through all potential content.  We need people, voices, and resources who can illuminate the people, voices, and resources worth encountering.  A quality set of content curators is worth literally thousands of dollars (though, if you are creative, you shouldn't have to pay for their curation).

This may seem judgmental and critical, but the reality is that there is now more content then there is capacity for and so the options are filter or drown.  I choose filtration.  I yearn for quality curators.

Oh and...this also means we must be bold enough to stop reading someone's work if it no longer makes the cut.  Time and mental space is too precious not to.