Taste-skill gap
on how to build taste, curation skills, and why it will always outpace your skills as an artist
Taste-skill gap
We live in a world without taste because taste requires judgment, and judgement requires hierarchy. We’ve been taught to reject both.
Taste is slowly cultivated over time through exposure, repetition, comparison, and the willingness to say This is better than That.
The modern world wants everything to be flat, interchangeable, and instantly... See more
Taste is slowly cultivated over time through exposure, repetition, comparison, and the willingness to say This is better than That.
The modern world wants everything to be flat, interchangeable, and instantly... See more
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When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
When your taste is ahead of your skill, you are not happy with the work you produce.
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
Stop a minute and think about it: all the times you are dissatisfied with your work, it just means that your taste for what is good is ahead of what you are able to create.
This conflict is good — in fact, it is what allows your skill to grow. You have a reference of... See more
Luca Rossi • Taste vs Skills 🚣♂️ - by Luca Rossi - Refactoring Taste vs Skills 🚣♂️
skill is the floor, taste is the ceiling
Taste is not the same as correctness, though. To do something correctly is not necessarily to do it tastefully. For most things, correctness is good enough, so we skate by on that as the default. And there are many correct paths to take. You’ll be able to cook a yummy meal, enjoy the movie, build a useable product, don a shirt that fits. But taste... See more
THE GAP by Ira Glass
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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
Taste is the bone-deep feeling that you’ve made something good. It is a sense, inexplicable and ephemeral. But it’s also a tangible skill that’s increasingly essential. Taste is how a business differentiates itself when attention is scarce and choice is abundant. Knowing what to make is just as important as the ability to make it.