taste
musings on taste
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taste
- What are you being paid for?
- The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist.
I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju
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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”
I think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the large” (picking important problems) and “in the small” (picking approaches to solving those problems that will work well); I usually see people first become great at the latter, then the former.
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
Steve Jobs, on Microsoft:
The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste, and I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their product.
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