Taste in Product Work

Taste is attention under constraints

Taste is not decoration sprinkled on top of a finished feature. It is the set of decisions that survive when time, ambiguity, and implementation details all press in at once.

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Polish is mostly subtraction

Remove the second explanation. Reduce the color count. Let repeated elements share a rhythm. Make the primary thing arrive first.

A product with taste makes fewer accidental demands on the person using it.

Shipping gives taste a surface

Private taste is just preference. Shipped taste becomes a decision someone else can respond to, use, and disagree with.