taste is the fundamental unit of self-trust: https://t.co/99oO4CFn5T
Taste is when you’ve amassed enough of those cultural influences that you start to believe the ideas and the cultural synthesis comes from within. The moment that happens, you stop observing.
Scott Hurff • Designing Products People Love: How Great Designers Create Successful Products
taste is the algorithm of the soul

Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing ... See more
Tahirah Hairston • RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer
You probably already have an intuitive sense of the people in your life who have great taste in something. They’re the people you always go to for restaurant or movie or gear recommendations. Maybe it’s the person you ask to be an extra set of eyes on an email or a project brief before you send it out.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral. But it’s also a tangible skill that’s increasingly essential. Taste is how a business differentiates itself when attention is scarce and choice is abundant. Knowing what to make is just as important as the ability to make it.