On Taste and Congruence
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On Taste and Congruence
do i have good taste?
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“we don’t need strategy, we need to get things done”, shreyas doshi kept repeating this mantra until he got to twitter
twitter, 2014, didn’t really have a product strategy.
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taste is a factor in everything we do. do we have taste in our beliefs? these eventually bleed into everyday product-decision making
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i don’t have good taste
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:
Taste comes in lanes. To quote Susan Sontag again, “There is taste in people, visual taste, taste in emotion — and there is taste in acts, taste in morality. Intelligence, as well, is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas. One of the facts to be reckoned with is that taste tends to develop very unevenly. It's rare that the same person has good vis... See more
Brie Wolfson • Notes on “Taste”
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.