Taste is underrated in startups.

https://twitter.com/karrisaarinen/status/1712970575713620113

this is true. The first step to acquiring good taste is ingesting massive amounts of information about whatever field you’re looking to master. For a musician this is listening to tons of records, for a painter it’s looking at tons of art. A dilettante or poseur usually has a limited set of information to draw from

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It is. So acquiring taste is easier than acquiring mastery in said field. A lot of artists don’t do the former though for some reason.

Looking / listening to 10,000 pieces is also probably more important (and easier, and quicker) than putting in 10,000 hours

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Yeah volume is important but there are x factors involved too. intelligence, openness, pernicious perhaps but everyone can control for exposure.

Yes. And volume is necessary but maybe not sufficient imo. 

It also helps to: pay attention; ask “why?”; try to do recreate it yourself.

+1

I initially taught myself mobile product design like this. I would constantly download trending apps in the early days of the app store to see (1) common patterns (2) train my eye on what good looks like (3) research why things were done certain ways.

My taste got better over time, but this got me going fast!