on taste
even B2B software now feel the pull of user experience, design, aesthetics, and storytelling.
Anu Atluru • Taste Is Eating Silicon Valley.
The more AI can execute, the more your eye for what's interesting – your ability to discern and curate what matters and why – becomes everything.
Sari Azout • What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
Taste honors someone’s standards of quality, but also the distinctive way the world bounces off a person. It reflects what they know about how the world works, and also what they’re working with in their inner worlds. When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul. This is why it is so alluring.
Notes on “Taste” | Are.na Editorial
Taste requires experiencing the creation in its entirety and evaluating one’s own authentic emotional response to it, parsing its effect. (Taste is not passive; it requires effort.)
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Having to consciously accrue a collection and think through what you enjoy most about a particular creator or body of culture means becoming a connoisseur. The term has a pretentious quality, but we can become connoisseurs of anything: reality TV shows, noise music, apple pie recipes. What we gain with algorithmic feeds in terms of
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In a world where machines can generate infinite variations, the ability to discern which of those variations is most meaningful, most beautiful, or most resonant may prove to be the rarest—and most valuable—skill of all…I like to think of taste as judgment with style. Great CEOs, leaders, and artists all know how to weigh competing priorities, when
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