taste and creating a point of view
by Elena · updated 20d ago
taste and creating a point of view
- One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing wh... See more
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The fastest decisions I’ve ever made are ones where I was confident in my taste; the slowest decisions I’ve made (or have yet to make) are ones where I question it. (And the latter tends to be a symptom of trying to overintellectualize my taste, to compare it to others’ taste, to judge my own taste — which defeats its purpose.)
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Sam Altman says that content curation and the ability to figure out what people want will be the most valuable skills in an AI-enhanced futureElena added 3mo ago
When it comes to business and careers, the more interesting people will succeed and capture more upside than ever before.
Because the uninteresting ones will get commoditized (hello 🤖).
And by interesting I mean being capable of analyzing, deciding, and executing in a way few others can.
Generating more unique ideas, understanding complex things fast
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- Until now, skills have been a major differentiator for humanity. However, in the age of AI, taste will become more important than skills as much of skill-based work and productivity is offloaded to compute. Taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI. This assertion makes me think about the development of t... See more
from The Era of Abstraction & New Creative Tensions by Scott Belsky
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- Being a creative means embracing the urge to put more of yourself—your identity, personality, and unique way of seeing—into the world, whether it be the way you make your breakfast in the morning or your trick for getting through your morning commute, or the themes that keep coming up among the thousands of photos in your camera roll. When we confo... See more
from field notes on being a creative [pt. 1] by Spencer Chang
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from Tweet by Simone Stolzoff
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- And why shouldn’t we mix it up? Why shouldn’t writers follow their obsessions and interests and strange ideas? The result is almost always going to be more memorable than an unthinking devotion to plot beats and character arcs.
from Your Novel Should Be More Like Moby-Dick by Lincoln Michel
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- "It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it." - Roger Ebert applies to every creative project
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- We are in an age of noise.
The frameworks that got us here, of jobs-to-be-done or product-market fit, will be insufficient going forward. For founders to have extraordinary outcomes, they will have to find alpha in markets that aren’t easily understood.
Which is to say, technology alone won’t be enough. The other essential ingredient will be taste.... See morefrom Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough. by Evan Armstrong
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