Taste Is A Leadership Skill
AI is excellent at generation. It can produce endless options, drafts, strategies, designs. But generation without discrimination is just volume. Someone has to look at the output and know what's good. That's taste.
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AI is excellent at generation. It can produce endless options, drafts, strategies, designs. But generation without discrimination is just volume. Someone has to look at the output and know what's good. That's taste.
Most of us are operating on more borrowed knowledge than we realize. The frameworks we've absorbed, the terminology we've picked up, the concepts we reference because we've heard them referenced—these give us fluency. Fluency is genuinely useful. But fluency isn't understanding, and the gap between the two is easy to miss because the fluency feels so much like comprehension.
Three forces—material abundance, automation, and global outsourcing—are rendering pure left-brain analytical work insufficient. The economy has shifted from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age, where right-brain abilities would become the primary source of value. There are six senses exist for this new era: Design, Story, Symphony, Empathy, Play, and Meaning.