On Taste, Part 3. Or, how to improve your taste if it… | by Julie Zhuo | The Year of the Looking Glass | Medium

Want to fill the void that Roger Ebert left with his passing? Hone your ability to spot a good design out in the wild? Not get made fun of by your friends for enjoying Nickelback a little too much? Then these six steps are for you. (Read Part 1 and Part 2 for more background.) The rest of this article is probably worthless to you if you don’t buy that “good” and “bad” taste exist. I discuss this in an earlier article, and Paul Graham writes one hell of a good essay about how the principles of what is elegant and beautiful in different fields are eerily similar. But if you don’t buy that there is some general scale of quality in every creative endeavor, then pretend this is a choose-your-own-adventure book and right here is the ending where you meet your untimely demise. (On the bright side, at least you’re saved the effort of reading the other 203 pages.) Now, it must be said: just because goodness has some scale of measurement (vague though that scale may be), it doesn’t mean you have

Want to fill the void that Roger Ebert left with his passing? Hone your ability to spot a good design out in the wild? Not get made fun of by your friends for enjoying Nickelback a little too much? Then these six steps are for you. (Read Part 1 and Part 2 for more background.) The rest of this article is probably worthless to you if you don’t buy that “good” and “bad” taste exist. I discuss this in an earlier article, and Paul Graham writes one hell of a good essay about how the principles of what is elegant and beautiful in different fields are eerily similar. But if you don’t buy that there