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Taste is Eating Silicon Valley.

This problem is almost impossible to fix in a culture that relies heavily on algorithms. The algorithm is, by definition, a repeating pattern that always looks backward. It does something in the future based on what worked in the past.

So the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new expe... See more

Ted Gioia • How to Know if You're Living in a Doom Loop

Designing in a Post-Taste world

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What distinguished libertarians from mainstream pro-business Republicans—Mailer’s parade of delegates in Miami Beach—was their pure and uncompromising idea. What was it? Hayek: “Planning leads to dictatorship.” The purpose of government is to secure individual rights, little else.

George Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal

Moreover, we suspect that even the more straightforward data scale effect has limited value as a defensive strategy for many companies.

Peter Lauten • The Empty Promise of Data Moats | Andreessen Horowitz

But a little shift back to an appreciation of the power of collective goals, to an ethic of care and maintenance, a love of art not necessarily for art’s sake but for more than just a stimulus of new ideas, a respect for thoughtful research and knowledge, and above all the space to question the goodness of the new might just be the big idea we need

Samuel W. Franklin • The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History

With AI/ML technologies making the leap in recent years, the seductive illusion of data has only grown. More Founders are falling prey to the idea we had at Tickle: the phantom value and defensibility of data. Collecting data is easy now, but turning that exhaust into value is not trivial. Further, a world of abundant data, it’s getting harder to d... See more

NFX • What Makes Data Valuable: The Truth About Data Network Effects

We live in an era of wealth and overabundance, but how bleak it is. There is “neither art nor philosophy,” Fukuyama says. All that’s left is the “perpetual caretaking of the museum of human history.”

Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World

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.

scott belsky

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