taste
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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”?
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
As technology advances, software will increasingly be chosen not just for how well it addresses its use case, but how it conveys its personality, similar to how we choose our clothes. We’re already beginning to see this shift. In highly individualized spheres like note-taking tools and consumer crypto, software is often chosen based on identity.... See more
Andreessen Horowitz (AZ) • Why We Crave Software With Style Over "Branding"
An entire metric of thought which is both impactful but also ignored
Taste – or lack of it – is the silent metric that permeates absolutely everything we create, and which has a far bigger bearing on success or failure than we’d care to admit.
The ability to intuitively discern the intrinsic harmony within something.
nature is intrinsically harmonious
how can you cultivate taste?
elevate your cultural diet so you can elevate your taste —> genre crossing ability.
View appreciation as a general skill
by learning to appreciate we learn to discern. by discerning we learn to decide. by deciding we learn to strategise.
“regular people” – when divested from allegiances to sponsorships and corporate algorithms – are the best tastemakers of our times
Arielle Richards • Please Stop Making Social Networks
Like many writers before me, I tend to lean on vague hand-waving when the need to define taste, or rather, good taste, arises. A common trope is to use the phrase US Supreme Court justice Stewart famously gave to describe obscenity, a similarly hard-to-describe bedfellow of taste, in 1964: “I know it when I see it.” In design, good taste can be... See more
Elizabeth Goodspeed on the Importance of Taste – And How to Acquire It
