{"id":24147,"date":"2026-07-21T10:36:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24147"},"modified":"2026-07-21T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:36:31","slug":"taste-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/21\/taste-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Taste&#8221; sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to put my finger on exactly why the AI-related buzzword du jour gets under my skin. &#8220;Taste&#8221; is anything but new, yet I can&#8217;t stand the way it gets bandied about, like some mystic shibboleth, by grasping little growth hackers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll have more to say about this (aren&#8217;t you lucky!), but I&#8217;m reminded of my all-time favorite Steve Jobs clip. He gets at &#8220;taste&#8221; being a function of <em>work, curiosity, and hard-won love of the excellent.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Steve Jobs  Microsoft has no taste\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3KdlJlHAAbQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a YouTube clip could be worn out like vinyl, I&#8217;d have done so long ago, given how many times I played it for teammates at Microsoft. Steve was right 30 years ago &amp; he&#8217;s right now. Just buying some Aeron chairs ain&#8217;t gonna flip that switch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to put my finger on exactly why the AI-related buzzword du jour gets under my skin. &#8220;Taste&#8221; is anything but new, yet I can&#8217;t stand the way it gets bandied about, like some mystic shibboleth, by grasping little growth hackers. I&#8217;ll have more to say about this (aren&#8217;t you lucky!), but I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24148,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24147\/revisions\/24148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}