“Why did I love that essay and not this one? What about that painting made me stop and stare?

Someone’s sense of taste also involves recognizing the gap between what they have made and what they intended to make.

To train our own taste, we must become cooks who aren’t scared to make food that may end up tasting terrible. To live in ‘the gap’ as Ira G

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How to like everything more

By Sasha Chapin - 30-Dec-24

On the skill of enjoyment

I believe that one of my skills is that I’m good at liking things. I intensely enjoy many of my experiences, whether we’re talking about music, art, people, food, places, books, movies, anything. My wife, glimpsing me reacting to a Fiona Apple song, once s

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