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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.
As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.
Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
Ken Kocienda • 7 highlights
amazon.comEveryone in design circles loves to pontificate about taste, but it's always the people with portfolios that look like a Vegas casino who have the most to say. Taste is the emperor's new clothes of the creative industry, claimed by all, possessed by few, recognized only by those who already have it.
But the twisted... See more
- van Schneider
In other words, she’d be someone who can break the rules with nonchalance because most of the time, she’s making them.
Sarah Archer • Is It Time to Do Away With “Good Taste”?
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
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
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
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
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.