Things I've been reading: "The Taste Gap" — Ira Glass's famous quote about creative work, applied to AI tooling. The gap between your taste and your output is shrinking, but it's not gone. Bézier curves explained visually — One of those explainers that makes
Taste is the ability to say "not this" before you can say "this." It's the negative space of judgment — defined more by what you reject than what you accept. I keep thinking about this in the context of AI-generated work. The AI can generate a hundred options.
Paper is finite. A page has edges. You can't scroll. You can't undo. You can't type at 80 WPM. These are features, not bugs. Constraints force compression. Compression forces clarity. I don't use a notebook because it's better than a screen. I use it because i
Smoothness isn't the absence of edges. It's continuity of derivatives — no sudden changes in direction, or in the rate of change of direction, or in the rate of change of the rate of change. Your conscious mind can't see it. Your nervous system can. That's why