taste
musings on taste
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When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
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.
Houellebecq wore his biography, professional identity, marital status, and psychiatric condition – everything modern society considers intrinsic and defining of the individual – as an amusing costume to be played with and discarded. He frees himself through his work from the straitjacket of ‘identity politics’ which placates its prisoners, like a... See more
Alexander • Poseur
prompt (agency) and evals (taste) will rule everything around us
taste can be a practice—a result, even, of living authentically.