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Hannah Arendt called taste “the chief cultural activity,”
As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.
Sarah Drinkwater • Artisans: Taste In Software
I see three distinct drivers of taste: Inputs, Filters, and Discernment.
- INPUTS are the experiences, knowledge and data you seek. Your brain is a system that absorbs whatever is around it, and then mashes it together alongside a lot of emotionally-driven randomness that results in all sorts of ideas, mistakes of the eye, and a lens on the world
Scott Belsky • What are We Gonna Do Now? Winning The Era of Superhumanity
Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral.
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Scale is quite valuable, but the costs are usually hidden. Consolidation leads to monoculture, it reduces the stock of unique ferments.
Culture, taste, and invention are often bottom-up phenomena. They require the opposite of scale. They require distance, and working alone.
Simon Sarrisx.comThe more high-end the clothing store, the fewer options on the rack. The masses want abundance. The wealthy want tasteful curation.
This applies to more than fashion.
David Perellx.com“regular people” – when divested from allegiances to sponsorships and corporate algorithms – are the best tastemakers of our times
Arielle Richards • Please Stop Making Social Networks
Alison Roman: “People are so brand-conscious now, and I think they’ve become that way about food. ‘Are those the Fishwife anchovies?’ No, it’s Cento. Or some Spanish brand you’ve never heard of, but it’s the same anchovies inside the tin. People are too conscious about choosing the ‘right’ thing that signifies their taste level, or who they are as
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As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.