What is "good taste"?

1. SPSpeaker0:00

   You know, I'd love to hear your definition of taste, but in my definition here, taste just means having a strong barometer, having a strong compass of what is good and what is not good and not producing things that you know in your heart are bad right? Or, like, not helping people or hurting people.

2. SPSpeaker0:16

   You make such a good point because I feel like there's, like, a artistic definition of taste which, like, I'm not much of an artist. Like, I don't really, can't really engage with and then there's just, like, a pure, like, value generation, right? Like, almost in the, kind of the core of the economy, like, is w- is what you're doing positive sum? It's weird because, like, I think in a classic definition of taste, people are like, "Well, some people have it and some people don't." I think everyone has the ability to look at something honestly-

3. SPSpeaker0:46

   Yeah

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   ... and ask whether it's so positive so-

5. SPSpeaker0:47

   Well, and again, the irony, I'm, you know, you've heard me say this before, but anyone that insists what good ta- taste they have-

6. SPSpeaker0:53

   Yeah. [laughs]

7. SPSpeaker0:53

   [laughs] It's like definitionally-

8. SPSpeaker0:54

   Yes

9. SPSpeaker0:54

   ... that's how you spot the people that don't have good taste.

10. SPSpeaker0:56

    Yeah.

11. SPSpeaker0:56

    Is they, they talk about how great they are-

12. SPSpeaker0:58

    Yes

13. SPSpeaker0:58

    ... all the time.

14. SPSpeaker0:59

    Well, and I think that's so funny 'cause, like, like, when people are like, "Oh, taste is, like, where the buttons are on the screen or, like, how cool my dark mode is," it's like j- to-

15. SPSpeaker1:06

    Yeah

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    ... like, you know, like.

17. SPSpeaker1:07

    But to recognize great taste in other people-

18. SPSpeaker1:10

    Yes

19. SPSpeaker1:10

    ... it's people that have high standards.

20. SPSpeaker1:12

    Yes.

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    And that they really care-

22. SPSpeaker1:14

    Yes

23. SPSpeaker1:14

    ... about anything that they release, they're proud of.

24. SPSpeaker1:19

    Yes.

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    And they would stamp their name on it-

26. SPSpeaker1:20

    Yes

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    ... and just be-

28. SPSpeaker1:22

    Yeah

29. SPSpeaker1:22

    ... stand by their work.

30. SPSpeaker1:23

    And the user gets value out of the work.

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