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To view keyboard shortcuts, press question mark View keyboard shortcuts Home Explore Notifications Chat Grok Premium Bookmarks Creator Studio Articles Profile More Post alana goyal @alanaagoyal Article See new posts Conversation Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen Against “Against Taste” 20 27 210 15K Taste did not suddenly arrive. Every few years the word comes back into fashion and starts carrying more weight than it should. But taste itself is simple. It is knowing what is good. That sounds abstract, but in practice it isn’t. The simplest test I use is this: could I serve a better sushi dinner than Jiro? I am almost certain I could not. No amount of AI, no amount of reading, no perfectly optimized workflow would close that gap. I would still miss something. The feel of the rice. The temperature. The sequencing. The sourcing. The decades of palate refinement. The thousands of small decisions that compound into an experience. The gap isn’t information. It’s judgment. Taste is judgment built

Karri Saarinen @karrisaarinen Against “Against Taste” 4:22 PM · Feb 18, 2026 54.4K Views 27 0 2 7 31 0 3 1 417 0 4 1 7 498 0 4 9 8 Read 27 replies

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