taste
musings on taste
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taste
When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
“Rather than understanding taste as the particular way a person does a thing, I will argue that taste is a measurement of how well a person is able to see and act within a problem space. That it is the ability to skip ahead over previously assimilated decisions to get to the heart of a matter. And that the process of doing this over and over within a domain turns the many small insights made into a muscle memory of shortcuts that are stored as aesthetic feelings, away from the cognitive expense of language and reason. Much more than just a style of doing, good taste is a measure of a person's intuitive understanding of a problem space.”
As AI democratise software creation, a world with a billion developers will not lack for builders as much as it will lack for artisans.
The hipster was an information-sorting algorithm: its job was to always have good taste . The hipster listened to bands you’d never heard of. The hipster drank beers brewed by Paraguayan Jesuits in the 1750s. The hipster thought Tarkovsky was for posers, and the only truly great late-Soviet filmmaker was Ali Khamraev. The hipster bought all his... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
taste > skills
taste seems more scarce these days, and increasingly differentiating in the age of AI where so much of skills-based productivity is offloaded to compute.
makes me think about the development of taste, and how we nurture taste for the next gen of humans.
scott belskyx.comThis is pretty good, and strangely consistent with my own idea of good taste
Tasteful people pursue stuff with purpose, have an appreciation and curiosity about others who pursue stuff with purpose, and a disregard for people who don't do stuff and/or cover for it by purchasing the correct things to signal that they do
Mat Dryhurstx.com
But it’s important to recognize that the goal of developing one’s own taste is not to ultimately land on what other people think is good. Your taste belongs to you