taste
musings on taste
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taste
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
I think of finding high-leverage work as having two interrelated components:
Agency: i.e. some combination of the initiative/proactiveness to try to make things happen, and relentlessness and resourcefulness to make sure you’ll succeed.
Taste: you need a good intuition for what things will and won’t work well to try. Taste is important both “in the large” (picking important problems) and “in the small” (picking approaches to solving those problems that will work well); I usually see people first become great at the latter, then the former.
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.
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People asking what taste is, or is there a framework ––
It's knowing what good looks like. Person who has taste in certain things, can find good things, create good things and point out how something needs to change to make it good.
Jiro from Jiro Dreams of Sushi: https://t.co/SVtBbEvuYn
Jiro from Jiro Dreams of Sushi
There is a time for any fledgling artist where one's taste exceeds one's abilities. The only way to get through this period is to make things anyway.