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Taste for Makers
People with positive taste, on the other hand, can make things that genuinely look good. This gives them a lot more freedom in their designs (they can use colors other than white!). Truly good designers have positive taste. Unfortunately for people like us, Apple seems to have hired most of them and put them to work building fairly bland web sites.
Aaron Swartz • Two Conceptions of Taste (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
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
But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is good enough that you can tell that what you're making is kind of a disappointment to you. A lot of people never get past that phase. They quit.
Ira Glass • THE GAP by Ira Glass
Everyone’s software is good enough. Software used to be the weapon, now it’s just a tool.
In a world of scarcity, we treasure tools. In a world of abundance, we treasure taste. The barriers to entry are low, competition is fierce, and so much of the focus has shifted — from tech to distribution, and now, to something else too: taste. [2]
Taste is
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