taste
musings on taste
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taste
because we might be all status-seeking monkey anyway. and because “at the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.”
The best definition of taste I found comes from painter John Folley. He says “‘Good taste' is simply to have a well formed opinion, in accordance with the realities of the Good and the True.” There are tasteful and non-tasteful choices. Taste reveals its purveyor to be a good decision-maker.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
Work on becoming more attuned to all your senses such that you can notice minute differences between things. Study all the little differences between similar things, and why you like one better than the other. The world wants you numb. Being a student of nuance is an act of rebellion.
-Kepano
Metalabels will be the tastemakers of the internet
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Computer scientist and technology blogger John Gruber on quality:
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
How to define what makes it so — think about quality in Zen and the art of motor cycle maintenance — you know it when it’s there.
Insight from Patrick O'Shaughnessy podcast episode with the Collison brothers:
Software is this intersection between creative work and mechanical industrial work, which is why there's a lot of people who have tried to put $1 billion dollars into software but it hasn't resulted in high quality software.
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