Claudiu
@claudiu
A sparking curious mind
Claudiu
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Reading on the bus is performative. Reading at the cafe is performative. Writing in public is performative. Wearing clothes is performative. Waking up in the morning is performative. Engaging in witty conversation is performative. It’s performative all the way down. All the world’s a stage. Take stimulants
Tonysubstack.comBecause this idea that the Internet’s gonna become incredibly democratic? I mean, if you’ve spent any time on the Web, you know that it’s not gonna be, because that’s completely overwhelming. There are four trillion bits coming at you, 99 percent of them are shit, and it’s too much work to do triage to decide.
So, it’s very clearly, very soon... See more
So, it’s very clearly, very soon... See more
Taste is about preference. When someone has "good taste" they have well-refined preferences. Taste sounds like a snotty term that a sommelier uses, but we all have tastes, even if we're not talking about taste in full-bodied reds from Northern Italy. We have taste in music, taste in design, and taste in literature (even if your literature is banger... See more
Samantha Marin • Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
What unites niche brands, magazines, and establishments is taste as an activity, constantly practiced, developed, and cultivated. Their taste is opinionated and always evolving, refined
and questioned, judged and discussed.
It’s a taste in progress.
and questioned, judged and discussed.
It’s a taste in progress.
Ana Andjelic • Taste in progress
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
For the past 10 years, taste couldn’t be monetized. Soon it will be one of the only things that can.
Daisy Alioto • The Taste Economy
from Ezra Klein, via How I Write - Ezra Klein: The Case Against Writing With AI | How I Write:
... See moreI don't think anybody can describe their own taste. I've thought about this a lot.
It is the nature of podcasting to ask people on some level who are at least by some definition of what they do, good at what they do, how they do it. And it is one of my