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Timeless art should strive for ordered complexity. Consider Plato, or a Beatles song, or a book you can read over and over. Sure, there may be a simple high-concept, but beneath it is cascading patterns, a hyper-object that the narrow-band of human attention can’t consume at once. Complexity is timeless, because every time you revisit it, there’s s
... See moreWe associate aesthetic with surface. But good taste is deep structure . It’s the throughline in someone’s life. You can see it in the design of their home, the cadence of their speech, the way they treat people, the books on their shelves.
Taste is how you live a congruent life. Not in the sense of brand consistency, but in the sense of spiritual al... See more
Taste is how you live a congruent life. Not in the sense of brand consistency, but in the sense of spiritual al... See more
Taste Is the New Intelligence
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