Taste Is the New Intelligence

Amid all the maddening and saddening things I read this week, this was a moment of bliss. A wonderful essay on taste as an essential quality in an environment of infinite content and attention directed by algorithms. So many quotes I vehemently nodded to and saved for later. Like this: «Taste is how you protect your mental environment. […] Real taste. The kind that signals coherence. Clarity. The ability to choose what matters in a world drowning in what doesn’t.» Or this: «What you give your attention to—what you consume, what you engage with, what you amplify—becomes a reflection of how you think.» And obviously this, pretty much the essence of what I’ve been doing with this newsletter since 2011: «Curation is care. It says: I thought about this. I chose it. […] I took the time to decide what was worth passing on.»