taste
Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.
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- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsThe other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?
↗DHH: Future of Programming, AI, Agentic Engineering, Vibe Coding & Linux | Lex Fridman Podcast #501youtube.com 6th of 41 in this recording
- 12 days earlier
- SP
Sunil Pai quoted
Their wordsmaking intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.
- 10 months earlier
- FC
Frank Chimero quoted
Their wordsYou use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans.
- FC
Frank Chimero quoted
Their wordsAn average email or line of code is fine. Average art isn’t. To make something alive with AI, we have to resist its pull towards average by working beside it, shaping what it gives, and listening for what’s missing.
- 4 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Their wordsIf that fully vertically integrated system suddenly is run by people with not quite as much taste as Steve Jobs with not quite as in tune sensibilities about everything from marketing to the vision of computing but instead by a logistics guy.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 3rd of 9 in this recording
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Our readingRuby is probably his forever language, and he still tries new languages to widen the aperture.
Their wordseven though I love Ruby and I think Ruby probably is my forever language, I continue to hop into new languages and get a taste for them and try them.
↗DHH discusses Linux and Omarchyyoutube.com 8th of 9 in this recording
- 3 months earlier
- JZ
Julie Zhuo quoted
Their wordsGood taste: taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.
↗The Death of Product Development as We Know itlg.substack.com
- 13 years earlier
- KS
Karri Saarinen quoted
Their wordsLike sushi chefs, we as founders, designers or developers, need to develop our tastes, in order to build things people can be impressed about.
- 3 years earlier
- KS
Karri Saarinen quoted
Their wordsIn making products, taste is not a matter of opinion, but an actual sense of sophistication that a person has. People who make new things need to practice taste and recognize beauty when they see it. Schools or education have very little to teach in the area of taste, you need to get involved in making something real.
- KS
Karri Saarinen quoted
Their wordsFor the soul, you need a person with a great taste to be the living and breathing aspect of the product. The one forging the blades. The person who thinks about the in and outs of the product and the business.
- 7 years earlier
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsYou need a good sense of design to judge good design. And there is no correlation, except possibly a negative one, between people's ability to recognize good design and their confidence that they can.
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsGreat software, likewise, requires a fanatical devotion to beauty. If you look inside good software, you find that parts no one is ever supposed to see are beautiful too.
- 15 months earlier
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsSaying that taste is just personal preference is a good way to prevent disputes. The trouble is, it's not true. You feel this when you start to design things.
- PG
Paul Graham quoted
Their wordsDon't ignore those voices. Cultivate them. The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.