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How to Discover Your Own Taste
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 reflect your own background, but also the choices and discoveries that you have made consciously and deliberately. It's always changing and it's also always in reflection of what everyone else is doing ... See more
Tahirah Hairston • RLT Interview #4: W. David Marx, Writer
Enshiu derided his own taste as too mainstream to be truly great. Yet catering to “the taste of the majority” might be the single goal of…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
As the ‘00s progressed, it became clear that internalizing information—memorizing, cataloging, recognizing—was precisely what we would no longer need to do. Memory was outsourced to the cloud as taste became the individual’s burden: We all found ourselves adrift on an unbounded sea of content, suddenly responsible for doing our own canonization.
Drew Austin • #187: A Rainbow in Curved Air
As consumers become increasingly passive, failing to exercise distinctly cultivated tastes, artists are forced to contend even more with algorithmic pressures, because working through the feed is the only way they can reach the scale of audience and engagement that they need to make a living. They need to reach us where we are, and where we are is
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