
← In The Loop23 Jul · 17 min
What even is the new AI super skill of taste and judgement? And how can we develop it too?
<p>Taste & judgment. </p><p>It's the word everyone's obsessed with right now. Every founder, podcast, every VC, every post you scroll past saying it's the one skill that survives once AI can do the rest. </p><p>Thing is, it's a bit of a sh*t word, like strategy: everyone nods along, then goes quiet the second you ask what it actually means. </p><p>In this episode of In The Loop, I'm trying to define taste and judgement, by researching what Harry Frankfurt's On Bullshit, Rick Rubin, Pixar's Braintrust, Amazon's memos all reccommend. </p><p>I get into where taste even comes from and the rituals you can actually run with a team on a Monday. </p><p>⏭️ Episode highlights</p><p>(01:10) – Why "taste" is suddenly everywhere</p><p>(02:40) – Workslop, and why judging got expensive</p><p>(04:10) – Frankfurt's On Bullshit, applied to AI</p><p>(05:40) – Taste vs judgement, and Rick Rubin</p><p>(07:20) – The apprenticeship we're automating away</p><p>(09:00) – Rubin's three ideas: attention, sayability, subtraction</p><p>(11:00) – Rituals worth stealing: Amazon, Pixar, the 11-star bar</p><p>(12:50) – Where Jack's landed, for now</p>