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Taste is trained

Taste is learned by exposing yourself to the best work and asking why it works.

Our reading of the idea · 5 claims from 5 people, in their own words

Great work comes down to taste: exposing yourself to the best things humans have done and bringing them into your own.

  1. Steve Jobs by American entrepreneur (1955 to 2011) Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing. Triumph of the Nerds, part 3 (PBS, 1996): transcriptweb.archive.org · by 26 Dec 1996All korrents from this piece
    Ultimately it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.

  1. Dylan Field Co-founder and chief executive of Figma It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why? Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com · 16 Oct 2025 · 1:00:49 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why?

Taste is practised by exposing yourself to how the world is ordered, and understanding how that makes everything look.

  1. Thiago Costa Designer and co-founder of Fey I think that's what defines taste you're exposed to these underlying configurations of how things look and we always search for symmetry you always search for things that are in order accidentally the nature is is perfect right everything is in order it's mathematically perfect but at the same time you know they change they move they're colors they're light so exposing yourself to those things and and understanding how these things make everything look is how you practice taste Thiago Costa - Cultivating taste as a designeryoutube.com · 21 Feb 2025 · 45:35 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    I think that's what defines taste you're exposed to these underlying configurations of how things look and we always search for symmetry you always search for things that are in order accidentally the nature is is perfect right everything is in order it's mathematically perfect but at the same time you know they change they move they're colors they're light so exposing yourself to those things and and understanding how these things make everything look is how you practice taste

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    21 Feb 2025 · video · 58m · spoken · machine transcript

Taste can be trained deliberately: write down what you think will matter in twelve months, then go back in twelve months and score yourself.

  1. Jeff Dean Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research Um, another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months. And maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in 12 months of these other things, which ones actually seemed important or which ones did other people in the world go out and and create and which ones did they did not seem to do yet. Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AIyoutube.com · 30 Jul 2026 · 35:57 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    Um, another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months. And maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in 12 months of these other things, which ones actually seemed important or which ones did other people in the world go out and and create and which ones did they did not seem to do yet.

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    30 Jul 2026 · video · 57m · spoken · machine transcript

Taste is editing with a point of view.

  1. Jason Yuan Designer and founder of Hivemind when people talk online about taste, taste, taste, taste, taste. All taste is, I think, is editing from with a point of view. Jason Yuan - Designing 99 "No"s for a single "Yes"youtube.com · 15 Jul 2026 · 52:47 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    when people talk online about taste, taste, taste, taste, taste. All taste is, I think, is editing from with a point of view.

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    15 Jul 2026 · video · 57m · spoken · machine transcript

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