Lenny Rachitsky explains taste as a mental model that predicts what an in-group will like. He says you build it through reps and feedback, like training a machine-learning model. Japanese artisans who painted bowls for generations show how sustained repetition hones discernment.
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Do you have any advice for someone that's like, I want to develop my taste? The common thing I think is iterations with feedback. So it takes a really long time to build up taste in a specific domain. But if I had to describe what taste actually means, it's you're able to run a virtual machine in your head where given an idea, you can predict for a certain in-group whether they're going to like it or not, right? To do that, you just have to do reps. It's almost like training a model. Look at Japan. They've just been I don't know, painting the bowl for however long, uh, and it just takes a while. And so I think increase the frequency of reps. That's, that's what I would say.