Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
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Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Though taste may appear effortless, you can’t have taste by mistake. It requires intention, focus, and care. Taste is a commitment to a state of attention.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Most people with taste can tell you, in explicit terms, how they came to it. That story typically involves someone else ushering them into it, directly or indirectly.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
The form of jottings, rather than an essay (with its claim to a linear, consecutive argument), seemed more appropriate for getting down something of this particular fugitive sensibility.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
While taste is often focused on a single thing, it is often formed through the integration of diverse, and wide-ranging inputs. Steve Jobs has said, “I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists ... See more
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
I guess a benefit of AI as a ‘tastemaker’ is that it does have the breadth. But what’s missing - ingrained in humanity - is that those ideas cannot bump into each other, duke it out, compromise, reject and revise each other
Taste in too many things would be tortuous. The things we have taste in often start as a pea under the mattress. To have taste is to be persnickety and one doesn’t want to be persnickety or annoyed about too many things. There are people who are like this. They are grumps. Taste takes effort. Plain old curiosity would do, too.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
interesting thought about developing taste vs being curious
John Folley. He says “‘Good taste' is simply to have a well formed opinion, in accordance with the realities of the Good and the True.” There are tasteful and non-tasteful choices. Taste reveals its purveyor to be a good decision-maker.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
I also believe taste is something we can and should try to cultivate. Not because taste itself is a virtue, per se, but because I’ve found a taste-filled life to be a richer one. To pursue it is to appreciate ourselves, each other, and the stuff we’re surrounded by a whole lot more.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
agree. also similar to thoughts about beauty as a right not a privilege. so is taste I think.
As John Saltivier says in an essay about building a set of stairs, “surprising detail is a near universal property of getting up close and personal with reality.”
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Though taste may appear effortless, you can’t have taste by mistake. It requires intention, focus, and care. Taste is a commitment to a state of attention. It’s a process of peeling back layer after layer, turning over rock after rock. As John Saltivier says in an essay about building a set of stairs, “surprising detail is a near universal property... See more