taste
musings on taste
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taste
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?
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.
because we might be all status-seeking monkey anyway. and because “at the same time, taste games are supposed to be human nature.”
Steve Jobs in 2005: "You know we've gotten a lot of people that say our shuffle'... | Hacker News
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How to Discover Your Own Taste
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“regular people” – when divested from allegiances to sponsorships and corporate algorithms – are the best tastemakers of our times