Good Taste is Making You Boring

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I suspect the rise of inspiration-sharing platforms might be making me, and everyone else on the collaborative internet, more focused on publicising our taste rather than feeding it. It’s easier to go viral on Twitter (err, X) by posting “vintage design inspiration” than it is by posting your own work. New sites like PI.FYI, a social network from t... See more

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It

It’s depressingly easy to forget you are an individual, with your own taste. A unique person. That contains multitudes. It’s worryingly easy - especially when young, especially when feeling in any way lost or unsure, especially when chronically online - to let the algorithm push you. Away from the edges, towards the middle. Away from anything old, ... See more

Beth Bentley • Is the Algorithm Making Us LESS Stylish, LESS Interesting, LESS...ourselves?

I think there’s a lot of depth to be found in the pursuit of beauty, I just think we tend to underestimate the extent to which our taste can be meaningful, rooted in something true about us, rather than reactive and trend-driven. Lately, when I find myself wanting something new, I’ve been considering whether the lack I’m feeling is more fundamental