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You build taste the same way you build strength: by choosing the heavier lift. The richer input. The slower hit. The thing that doesn’t give you a dop

Taste isn't some mysterious gift bestowed at birth—it's simply what happens when you pay close attention to what moves you.

Taste is about discovery, having interest in things, and making a lot of mistakes. It’s about trying to find the authentic set of choices that both re

Every designer loves to talk about "Taste" (especially those who don't know what it means). But there's another part to this conversation I think ab

Why is it so much easier to add than to remove? Maybe because we attach our identity to what is visible. But there is a difference between the ornamen

Knowledge of the world isn’t the same as experiencing the world. Why does online connection so often seem to lack aliveness , as compared to encount

There’s a trap when letting AI improve your efficiency and productivity. By heavily optimizing your daily life, you lose the chance of serendipity. If

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

To do great work, start by finding something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work,

Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with

So Beautiful World is basically raising a canonical question—“How can we read or write novels (or care about love affairs) in the face of human misery

The best, most promising relationships are formed out of reverence and fearless love and curiosity and imagination. The most divine relationships cons

Relationships are an important source of personal growth, but for a relationship to expand us, two things are necessary. The first is intimacy: we ne

the thing is, as an adult, you get to make your own cool. you get to choose your own friends, live your own life. and let me tell you, in my life, whe

in my experience, charm is found in the warmth of a touch, the ability to welcome someone into a conversation organically, the filling up someone’s wa

A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier. As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experie

I want to see more tools and fewer operated machines - we should be embracing our humanity instead of blindly improving efficiency. And that involves

A very common trope is to treat LLMs as if they were intelligent agents going out in the world and doing things. That’s just a category mistake. A muc

A humanism that responds to the collapse of Big Authenticity will be sexier. As Magdalene Taylor recently wrote, “Real things and actual human experie

My generic career advice for young people is that if at all possible, you should aim to work on something that no one has a word for. Spend your energ

But squeezing yourself into a small, easily explainable cage you know you’ll quickly outgrow just to avoid the pain of struggling to explain who you a

when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must also repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger wo

What we have long called the creator economy is evolving to become more of a “meaning economy,” where the creators and brands and experiences that eng

Like the artist, the business professional or founder must develop the capacity to see what others have missed—to recognize patterns and possibilities

For starters, the value of creative work will shift from outcomes to process and ingenuity. The original idea, the judgment, the innovations in proces

Changing the answer is evolution, Changing the question is revolution. —Jorge Wagensberg

@dwarkesh_sp I think this comes down to a version of agency. An LLM doesn't sit around and "ponders" things. Would Newton have made his discoveries

At present, we seem to be suffering from a widespread failure of literary imagination. We have become worse at imagining the experiences of other peop

“A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish. Walking around muttering seems to hasten the process.

“Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is in

Only silence enables us to say something unheard of. The compulsion of communication, by contrast, leads to the reproduction of the same, to conformis

Self-knowledge is obviously a process, not an end in itself; and to know oneself, one must be aware of oneself in action, which is relationship. You d

One of the things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good fo

Iwakan is one of my favorite Japanese phrases. It consists of three Chinese characters, 違 (i, meaning difference, deviation), 和 (wa, meaning harmony,