taste
musings on taste
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taste
taste is the algorithm of the soul
The problem you solve for customers is increasingly one they can’t even articulate for themselves . The ones that are easy to understand have already been built and funded over the last 20 years. Building something of true excellence will require a hungrier engagement with the world—and that will have to start with developing superior taste.
Evan Armstrong • Want to Build? Technical Excellence Won’t Be Enough.
it’s not enough to have skill.
you need soul, good judgment, a strong why, and a profound understanding of culture.
ideas and taste will (finally) be as (if not more) important and differentiating than skill.
Scott Belsky • Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future Collapsing the Talent Stack, Persona-Led Growth & Designing Organizations for the Future
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.
alex • Taste: The secret ingredient - Basic Arts
One of my (many) contrarian beliefs is that we do not have strong enough preferences. We often blame social media or the speed of information as the reason why we’re easily distracted, but the real reason behind our inability to focus has less to do with the sheer quantity of media and more to do with our laziness when it comes to distinguishing... See more
