taste

musings on taste

I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you.

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It

sari

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.

sari

What is beauty?

Symmetry is beautiful, because life blooms in cycles rather than episodes.

Elegance is beautiful, because everything that matters can be described in a few math equations or observed between a few kindergartners.

Contrast is beautiful, because something that lacks an alternative also lacks meaning.

Connection is beautiful, because the... See more

andrea

#187: A Rainbow in Curved Air

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Keely Adler

We have been co-evolving with ravenous attention predators forever. This is not a fight we can, or should want to, opt out of. We already live in a universe with church, slot machines, and Rhianna. The Sorrows of Young Werther. The Beatles. The bigger and more successful they get, the more boring they become, and the easier they are to ignore.

Frank Lantz • Unpluggers, Deflators etc. pt 3: Why Not Both?

ssari

taste is the business end of attention - we will need to learn how to use it to survive. humans are not helpless creatures who must be protected from the grindhouse of optimized infotainment. we are attention warriors.

While it’s probably one of the corniest things I’ll ever write in this column, I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you. It’s the product of devouring ideas, images and pieces of culture not... See more

Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It

Jamie Banks

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linda

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."

JJohn Borthwick

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.