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Kristoffer

@kristoffer

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When people ask me: Who are you? What do you do? And I tell them — I walk, I write, I photograph, I make books, I run a membership program. Their suspicion is plainly visible: No, but what do you do to survive ? As if the soul itself wasn’t a thing to be nourished. This is survival, I want to say. But instead I say: And from those activities I make... See more

Craig Mod • Running a Membership Program: Four Years In

Barry Kassel

@jackson1139

How to Discover Your Own Taste

‘The Ezra Klein Show’nytimes.com

And now I finally had the chance to ask Brian Biel in person if there’s some secret formula behind Hillstone’s powerful allure—besides trying to avoid press, of course. Is it the napkins with buttonholes, just in case you need to affix one to your shirt like a spaghetti-eating character in Goodfellas ? Is it the fact that every location has a

Andrew Knowlton • Welcome to Hillstone, America's Favorite Restaurant

Taste is a word for how we measure culture and judge our relationship to it. If something suits our taste, we feel close to it and identify with it, as well as form relationships with other people based on it, the way customers commune over clothing labels (either loving or hating a particular brand). Intentionally bad taste might be just as compel

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Chilean sea bass? Trendy. Expensive. More than likely frozen.

Anthony Bourdain • Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

The State of the Culture

Ted Gioia tedgioia.substack.com

Code is cheap. Money now chases utility wrapped in taste, function sculpted with beautiful form, and technology framed in artistry.

But what exactly is taste? The dictionary says it’s the ability to discern what is of good quality or of a high aesthetic standard . But who sets that standard? Taste may be subjective, but within a given culture or co... See more