Taste
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
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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
Appreciation is a form of taste. Creation is another. They are often intertwined, but don’t have to be. Someone could have impeccable taste in art, without producing any themselves. Those who create tasteful things are almost always deep appreciators, though. Mark Ronson listens to and loves *a lot* of music. Samin Nosrat tries and savors *a lot*... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Curation builds taste
If we don’t actively decide what we read, see or listen to, it’s decided for us. And we'll be served general slop by an algorithm that's controlled by people with extremely skewed values and ideas about what is best for us to see (hint: they want us to see ads - they want us to buy stuff) . We’re pulled along by the tides of... See more
If we don’t actively decide what we read, see or listen to, it’s decided for us. And we'll be served general slop by an algorithm that's controlled by people with extremely skewed values and ideas about what is best for us to see (hint: they want us to see ads - they want us to buy stuff) . We’re pulled along by the tides of... See more