taste and creating a point of view
For starters, the value of creative work will shift from outcomes to process and ingenuity. The original idea, the judgment, the innovations in process, and the story become more important than ever. As any art collector knows, in a fine art gallery, a piece is valued based on its lineage, its originality, and the trials and tribulations of the ar
... See moreScott Belsky • 9 Forecasts for the Near Future, With Implications
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world—and that will have to start with developing superior taste.
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
Aesthetics is the domain in which we pay attention to attention. Art matters. Taste matters. They are, in the dawn of the AI era, more crucial than ever for understanding and shaping the world. What is this new thing? This play that writes itself? This hallucinating hallucination? This science fiction made real? What do we want from it? And how wil... See more
Frank Lantz • Unpluggers, Deflators etc. pt 3: Why Not Both?
En contra de la desconexión - necesitamos el gusto para ganar la batalla de la atención
AI will generate exactly what you tell it to create. A blessing for those with vision, a curse for those without. You can feed it every reference, provide every specification, but the output is only as good as your ability to recognize what is good and what is bad.
The world's most sophisticated algorithms can't save you from your own blind spots.
... See more— Tobias van Schneider
So, there’s the trick. The path to taste is really as simple as writing a little plus and minus in the margin more often. If we apply this to digital space, we can turn them from an overwhelming and chaotic bombardment into a steady stream of things we find beautiful, that in turn, can define our tastes. For me, Are.na is a space for this kind of c... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Amidst all of the information that surrounds us, learn to see what is deeply important to you. Use the feelings in your body as a guide. Live on first tracks. Anything that puts you into your essence, no matter how small, is valuable.
Boyd Varty • The Lion Tracker's Guide to Life
Research shows that intuition originates in the nonverbal regions of our brain, particularly the basal ganglia and anterior cingulate cortex. These regions process patterns outside of our conscious awareness.
When we try to put intuitive insights into words, we often end up with rationalization rather than explanation. The verbal parts of our brain,... See more
When we try to put intuitive insights into words, we often end up with rationalization rather than explanation. The verbal parts of our brain,... See more
George Sudarkoff • Stop Analyzing Your Gut Feelings: A Counter-intuitive Guide to Better Leadership
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