Vyara Ndejuru
@vyarandejuru
we’ll see I guess
Vyara Ndejuru
- All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But it's like there is this gap. For the first couple years that you're making stuff, what you're making isn't so good. It’s not that great. It’s trying to be good, it has ambition to be good, but it’s not that good.
from THE GAP by Ira Glass by Ira Glass
"The quality of any creative endeavor tends to approach the level of taste of whoever is in charge."
Source: The Auteur Theory of Design (2009)
Rediscovering Ikigai: What We Got Wrong and How to Find Meaning in Life
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One unique Japanese concept is the idea of ikigai, which can be roughly translated to reason for being (or “raison d’être” in my native French) . Each person’s ikigai is personal to them, reflective of their inner self, and creating a mental state in which they feel at ease. WhaThe Taste Economy is the idea that there are essentially only three business moats: proprietary technology, supply chain innovation and taste.
Daisy Alioto
High Fructose corn sugar was the result of [neomania](https://www.shortform.com/blog/neomania-antifragile/), financed by a Nixon administration in love with technology and victim of some urge to subsidize corn farmers
Implementation does not necessarily proceed from invention. It, too, requires luck and circumstances
We cannot reverse engineer the taste of food from looking at the nutritional label
Stoicism is the domestication, not the elimination, of emotions
- Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. Adding something is easy. But removing something is hard, because it requires conviction. It’s easier to hedge against uncertainty, entertain multiple paths, and dilute your focus than to develop a strong opinion about what to exclude.
from Things I'm thinking about