Taste or something like that
Curation, Human touch
As Mumford observed almost a century ago, the world loses its soul when we place too much weight on the ideal of total quantification. By doing so, we stop valuing what we know to be true, but can’t articulate. Rituals lose their significance, possessions lose their meaning, and things are valued only for their apparent utility.
David Perell • The Microwave Economy
“If your choice enters into it, then taste is involved—bad taste, good taste, uninteresting taste.”
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Godwin’s Law asserts that all online discussions, no matter the topic or scope, eventually result in someone comparing their opponent to Hitler. There should be a similar adage for how all discussions eventually lead to matters of taste.
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Taste and craft are not about endless design reviews. Taste is finely-tuned intuition for what differentiates good from great — and perhaps more importantly, the ability to explain why.
The Unsung Ingredient in Stripe, Square and Linear’s Success: Taste
Looking closely is valuable at every scale. From looking closely at a sentence, a photograph, a building, a government. It scales and it cascades — one cognizant detail begets another and then another. Suddenly you’ve traveled very far from that first little: Huh.
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh... See more
I’d say that that huh is the foundational block of curiosity. To get good at the huh... See more
Craig Mod • Looking Closely Is Everything
If your "taste" doesn't cost you something, it's not taste. It's preference.
sarah guo // conviction • Tweet
Movies beckon different tradeoffs today. Seeing the movie isn’t enough reward to justify the cost. Social capital used to mean time given to friends in physical spaces where friendship was solidified. It now means attention given to me that can be used to grow personal social followings and participate in online fandom. The reward of going to see a... See more
Posting through the movie: why people won't stop recording
Clear taste acts as a decision-making accelerant. Every choice becomes obvious when filtered through a coherent point of view.
