Taste - Readwise Highlights

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  • True random feels broken. Engineered random feels right. (View Highlight)
  • This is taste. The relentless, almost painful ability to know what should exist, what shouldn’t, and where quality matters. It’s the difference between shipping a product and shipping a point of view. (View Highlight)
  • If your “taste” doesn’t cost you something, it’s not taste. It’s preference. (View Highlight)
  • In competitive evaluations, this coherence becomes your edge. Polish beats features. The product that looks finished gets tagged as “enterprise-ready”—even when it’s not. Because taste isn’t just design. It’s the compound effect of ten thousand aligned decisions, each one reinforcing your point of view. (View Highlight)
  • Great engineers can work anywhere. They choose teams where craft is currency—where someone will notice if the animation curves are wrong, where performance isn’t just measured but felt. (View Highlight)