I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you.

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

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taste can be a practice—a result, even, of living authentically.

Haley Nahman • #176: Accounting for taste

The “taste” of tastemakers means personal preference, the discernment that we all apply to figure out what we like, whether in music, fashion, food, or literature.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Taste is an abstract, ineffable, unstable thing. A listener to music or reader cannot truly tell if they will enjoy something before they experience it; pleasure in a piece of art is never guaranteed. So when encountering an artwork, we immediately evaluate it by some set of mental principles, and, hopefully, find the beauty in it, feel affirmed, e

Developing Taste

When the first car came out, consumers didn't care about its color, or silhouette, because the competition was a horse.1 But now that cars have been commoditized, quality and details have become more important than ever.

The same applies to software. Simply shipping a product that works is no longer enough, everyone can do that, espe... See more

Emil Kowalski • Developing Taste

identity. “Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier,” Bourdieu wrote. No wonder that we worry about what to like, and sometimes find it simpler to export that responsibility to machines.