taste
musings on taste
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taste
Maybe if you spin it in the right kind of way with the right kind of confidence and a baseline level of taste anything can be cool?
The Death of Cool
On paper, taste = discernment.
In practice, taste = your sense of self, made visible.
Substack • How to Turn Feeling Like an Outsider Into an Enormous Advantage
Developing taste is an exercise in vulnerability: it requires you to trust your instincts and preferences, even when they don’t align with current trends or the tastes of your peers. Because while having taste is cool, taste itself reflects a certain type of uncool earnestness – a commitment to one’s own obsessions and quirks.
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
The GAP
“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
if your job is legible enough that people can make a dataset clearly pointing out what is right and what is wrong, you are at the highest risk for an AI model being “superhuman” at your job. It is even more risky if it is possible to articulate your thought process in a way that is verifiable.
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How to have a career even when OpenAI's o3 drops
be illegible.
not many brands are built wholly on irony in this way – however perhaps they should be, given how meta and self-referential popular culture has become.