“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown / Will Rogers

“A good judgment is usually the result of experience. And experience is frequently the result of bad judgment. But to learn from the experience of others requires those who have the experience to share the knowledge with those who follow.” — Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

“Taste honors someone’s standards of quality, but also the distinctive way the world bounces off a person. It reflects what they know about how the world works, and also what they’re working with in their inner worlds. When we recognize true taste, we are recognizing that alchemic combination of skill and soul.” — Brie Wolfson

“I don’t think my taste in aesthetics is that much different than a lot of other people’s. The difference is that I just get to be really stubborn about making things as good as we all know they can be. That’s the only difference.

…your [taste] gets more refined as you make mistakes. I’ve had a chance to make a lot of mistakes…But the real big thing is: if you’re going to make something, it doesn’t take any more energy—and rarely does it take more money—to make it really great. All it takes is a little more time. Not that much more. And a willingness to do so, a willingness to persevere until it’s really great.” — Steve Jobs (via _Make Something Wonderful

“At first it seems that we need only know the diverse sources of our pleasures in order to acquire taste, and that once we had read what philosophy tells us on this subject, we would have good taste and could boldly judge works of art. But natural taste is not the same as theoretical knowledge. It consists in the rapid and subtle application of the very rules which we do not know.” — Voltaire

“When judgment becomes sufficiently refined, we call it taste.” — Naval Ravikant

= 嗅覺 = 品味 = 眼光 = Taste

Taste > Skills

Taste is choosing. It’s scarcity amidst an abundance of choice. It’s judgment that is socially valuable and also personal. It’s a kind of intimacy with detail. It requires deep familiarity and skillful consideration of quality.

People with great taste in a certain field are those who have spent the most time there.

Judgment Is the Decisive Skill

Leverage is a force multiplier for your judgment.

The first part of your career’s spent hustling to get leverage. Once you have the leverage, then you wanna slow down a bit, because your judgment really matters.

In an age of infinite leverage, judgment becomes the most important skill.

Judgment, especially demonstrated judgment, with high accountability, clear track record, is critical.

Without experience, judgment is often less than useless.

The people with the best judgment are among the least emotional. The more outraged someone is, the worse their judgment.