taste

As Arnold Bennett famously said, ‘Good taste is better than bad taste, but bad taste is better than no taste.

I see three distinct drivers of taste: Inputs, Filters, and Discernment.

• INPUTS are the experiences, knowledge and data you seek. Your brain is a system that absorbs whatever is around it, and then mashes it together alongside a lot of emotionally-driven randomness that results in all sorts of ideas, mistakes of the eye, and a lens on the world

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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.

When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.

not many brands are built wholly on irony in this way – however perhaps they should be, given how meta and self-referential popular culture has become.

I’ve come to believe that developing taste is not so unlike going to therapy; it’s an inefficient, time-consuming process that mostly entails looking inward and identifying whatever already moves you.