Taste
“When you learn what you can live without, you are able to ask life for the very best because you possess the gift of discernment. You are able to create an authentic life because you are able to make conscious choices.”
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
I suppose you could call that gift “ taste .”
But what I love about this quote is that it’s not the... See more
sydney rheeder 𖣠 • the power of knowing what you like
The One Thing Jensen Huang Says AI Will Never Replace
Taste is first-principles thinking applied to ambiguity. It’s the skill of looking at ten valid options and identifying which one you should not pursue. Subtraction, not addition.
The One Thing Jensen Huang Says AI Will Never Replace
taste is the rational capacity to make good decisions about poorly defined work. Not problems with known answers. Problems where the parameters are wrong, incomplete, or haven’t been written yet.
The One Thing Jensen Huang Says AI Will Never Replace
As artificial intelligence learns to predict, replicate, and endlessly optimize what is already popular, the risk is not noise but homogeneity. The future promises infinite content that is perfectly tailored, frictionless, and forgettable, generated at scale by systems trained to reinforce existing patterns. In such a landscape, taste becomes one... See more
Contemporarypaintings • On Taste and the Visual Arts
And in an age where reggaeton suffocates the airwaves and monotony is normalized as culture, liking jazz, or Bob Dylan for that matter, becomes a revolutionary act. To cultivate taste today is no longer a passive preference but a form of resistance: a refusal of the flattening of the senses and a conscious stand against the algorithm’s dull... See more
On Taste and the Visual Arts
When you share what influences you, you’re not distracting from your work. You’re giving people a framework for understanding it.
The Role of Taste
Taste matters more, not less, in the age of AI . When machines can generate infinite answers, the human capacity to ask beautiful questions becomes the scarcest resource.
The Curation Crisis
This is what research builds in you when you commit to it seriously. It develops a subconscious visual language like a set of instincts, references, and connections that are genuinely yours. On set, this shows up in the decisions that happen quickly: the frame you move to instinctively, the object you reach for, the casting quality you recognise... See more