> Taste is the accumulated judgment of <u>everyone who came before you</u>, filtered through <u>your own experience</u>, applied to problems that don't have right answers. > -- [[What the Fuck is Taste]] ## Taste is collective & helps us find our tribe > It's a collective agreement about what's good, built up through centuries of culture, transmitted through exposure and education and social context. > Personal taste is also a homing beacon. It helps you find others with similar tastes, and helps them find you. Journalist and culture critic **Kyle Chayka** writes in his book _Filterworld_ that 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." Pierre Bourdieu -- 品味远非中立的个人判断，它更像是社会竞争的武器。 > "Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier" ## Taste distinguishes "me" from all the other choices > A strong sense of personal taste—and thus a strong sense of self—is a potent filter. When there is an overwhelming array of things to choose from, it operates as an instinct, quickly reducing the number of choices. What’s “not me” is immediately discarded, leaving you to evaluate the rest for what _is you_. This filter becomes even more necessary as AI opens up choices previously locked behind the doors of time, labor, and technical ability.