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  Starlink Mini

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  And one Starlink Mini for travel which we used last month on a boat in the Mediterranean, we had a balcony with only a little bit sky horizontally and still got 25mbps, which was way faster than the onboard WiFi

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Wall Street Journal bestselling author on marketing and writing, partner at MarketingProfs, and writer of the fortnightly Total Annarchy newsletter.

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  In an age of abundant information, a person's judgment, taste and perspective are their primary value as a writer.

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  Information is ridiculously abundant. Your judgment, taste, and perspective are literally all you have to work with now.

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  AI has lowered the barrier enough that non-technical people with strong ideas, taste, and cultural awareness can build successful businesses.

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  especially with AI now I'd say anyone can try, and non-technical people with the best ideas, creativity/taste and understanding of whatever cultural zeitgeist we're in can win

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Forecaster, founder of FiveThirtyEight, author of The Signal and the Noise and On the Edge. Writes Silver Bulletin, where the predictions come with numbers and the numbers are later checked against what happened.

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  Touchdown rates are noisy and opportunity-dependent, and don't transfer well when a quarterback changes teams.

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  TDs are both noisy and opportunity-dependent, and TD rates don’t “travel” all that well when a QB changes teams.

  How our ELWAY forecasts worknatesilver.net

Epidemiologist; founded Your Local Epidemiologist in March 2020 to translate public-health science, and consults for organisations including the CDC.

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  Getting seasonal vaccines is among the most effective actions people can take to stay healthy through fall and winter.

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  Getting vaccines is one of the best things you can do this fall and winter to stay healthy and minimize disruption to school, work, and travel.

  Your guide to fall 2026 vaccinesyourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Most organisations are bottlenecked on ideas, vision and taste rather than on implementation, so making code cheap does not make them productive.

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  The other thing I'd say is that most organizations don't know what they want. They don't know how to make it better. They're not bottlenecked on implementation. They're bottlenecked on ideas. They're bottlenecked on vision. They're bottlenecked on taste. And if you don't have those element in excess of your implementational capacity, it doesn't help. So you can make a lot of shitty ideas come true, then what?

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Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at Caltech, where he studies the neuroscience of emotion and social cognition.

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  Awe is a uniquely human emotion, resting on the metacognitive ability to detach conscious experience from the here and now.

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  I think it's a uniquely at least as we have it it's uniquely human emotion and it's based on a broad sort of metacognitive ability we have which is to detach our conscious experience from the here and now and do like mental time travel.

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Programmer and teacher; writes on software, learning and the web, and makes the Coding Blocks video course.

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  Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

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  It’s a very interesting book, but for some reason Michio Kaku’s style doesn’t spark me as much as Briane Greene’s or Stephen Hawking’s or Neil deGrasse Tyson’s.

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Systems and developer-tools engineer at Cloudflare as of 2026, on durable infrastructure for AI agents; worked on React and PartyKit before that. Writes at sunilpai.dev.

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  Cheap intelligence does not make agency cheap, and these tools may mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and time.

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  making intelligence cheap does not automatically make “agency” cheap. people are constrained by time, money, confidence, health, education, institutions, family, geography; a model does not magic any of that away. there’s a perfectly believable future where these tools mostly compound the advantage of people who already have the skill, taste, money and the spare time to use them well.

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Machine-learning researcher on open language models; writes the Interconnects newsletter and the RLHF Book, after leading post-training at Ai2.

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  Using AI agents to do a task does not by itself increase a person's own pace of understanding, intuition, or taste for that work.

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  Something intertwined with this story, which I stumbled upon when thinking about agents, is how your pace of understanding won't increase by using agents.

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  Clean Code

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  Clean Code is another standard recommendation, but that one wasn't for me. There are useful design principles in there worth studying, but the book as a whole is too narrow and a bit too dogmatic for my taste. Your mileage might vary.

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Short-story writer and novelist; won the Booker Prize for Lincoln in the Bardo, and teaches craft weekly in Story Club.

From one piece On the Perils of Self-Assessing... 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The recipe for great work is very exacting taste plus the ability to gratify it; it is easier to see ugliness than to imagine beauty.

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  Could this phrase or sentence or paragraph or section be improved, even a little? That is, can I make myself (on this very localized turf) make myself dislike it less?

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

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  A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.

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  Just don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.

  On the Perils of Self-Assessing...georgesaunders.substack.com

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research, at Google since 1999, where he co-created MapReduce, Bigtable, TensorFlow and the TPU.

From one piece Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  When agents do the building, the scarce skill is taste: choosing which problem is worth the time at all.

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  Yeah, I mean I think it's really having incredibly good taste in what you ask your agents to work on, right? That is the the crux of you know from my background uh a research problem. You know, a researcher can have all the tools and all the techniques, but often most of the battle is what problem are you gonna spend your time on?

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  Taste can be trained deliberately: write down what you think will matter in twelve months, then go back in twelve months and score yourself.

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  Um, another way you can get more experience for yourself is to just write down a bunch of things you think might be important in the next 12 months. And maybe you pick one of them to work on, but go back and evaluate in 12 months of these other things, which ones actually seemed important or which ones did other people in the world go out and and create and which ones did they did not seem to do yet.

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Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, the Denver company building the Overture supersonic airliner and its Symphony engine.

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  When air travel doubles in speed the important changes happen on the ground: Hawaii was not a tourist destination until the jet made it reachable.

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  Those first jetliners truly did double the speed of what had come before them. And was they doubled the speed of air travel, the most important changes were on the ground. Hawaii was simply not a tourist destination before the speed of the jet.

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Writer and teacher on productivity and personal knowledge management. Author of Building a Second Brain and founder of Forte Labs, which runs the course of the same name.

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  AI tends to flatten outputs toward sameness, so personal taste and perspective become the main way to stand out.

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  AI flattens everything it touches. The way you stand out is by getting clearer about what you really want, your taste, your perspective, your opinions.

  Is Recall the Second Brain for the AI Era?fortelabs.com

Head of Instagram since 2018, previously head of Facebook's News Feed.

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  Designers will do well out of AI rather than badly, because taste is the hardest part of their job to imagine being automated away.

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  you've got these other generalists doing design, you've got engineers doing design, product staff doing design, but I'm actually pretty long on design or designers because they tend to have taste and I think that is something that is much more difficult to imagine being automated away.

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Machine learning engineer and consultant focused on RAG and retrieval systems. He writes about applied AI engineering at jxnl.co and is the author of the instructor library.

From one piece If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eat 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  AI has made ability nearly free, making taste the main bottleneck separating good creators from mediocre ones.

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  As AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself.

  If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co

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  Taste is not about consensus or criticism, but the courage to value what genuinely resonates with you.

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  Taste isn't consensus. It's not judgment first, either. It's easy to be a critic. Curiosity has to come first, because without curiosity you never broaden your horizons.

  If You Want Taste, You're Gonna Have to Eatjxnl.co

Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Group theory took a hundred years to travel from one man's hunch to something the mathematical community agreed was good, passing through many heads on the way.

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  what makes the GAWA theory such an interesting example is you have um literally this 100-year segment of like an idea that like flows through many different people's heads before it like settles into something that the math community like agrees is good.

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Marketing author and daily blogger; founder of the altMBA and the Akimbo workshops, and author of books including Purple Cow and This Is Marketing.

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  Rishi Dandelion Ginger

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  Rishi Dandelion Ginger. Extraordinary and surprising. And most things taste better mixed with tonic.

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  AI models default to generic, lowest-common-denominator output unless a user actively pushes back against them.

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  If the user doesn't actively push back against the AI model, then they get the generic output, the lowest common acceptable denominator of aesthetics and taste.

  The generic style of AI web designkylechayka.substack.com

AI researcher at OpenAI; built the poker systems Libratus and Pluribus and the Diplomacy agent Cicero, and works on reasoning models.

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  Models have no research taste yet, which is why they complement researchers rather than replace them.

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  one thing I see for research in particular is they don't have very good research taste right now and so I think they're actually a very good complement to researchers

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Coffee consultant and author of books on espresso, roasting and brewing, including The Professional Barista's Handbook and The Coffee Roaster's Companion; writes about brewing gear and roast control at scottrao.com.

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  Crema in espresso is composed largely of carbon dioxide, fines, oils and bitter compounds, making it taste unpleasant.

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  crema is composed of lots of carbon dioxide, fines, oils, and bitter compounds.

  Crema is rubbish, 2026 editionscottrao.com

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  Travel insurance is the most important thing to take on a trip, because it protects everything else

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  While not technically a piece of gear, travel insurance is something you need on the road. In fact, it’s the MOST IMPORTANT thing you need, because it protects all your other gear.

  My Favorite Gear for Travelersnomadicmatt.com

From one piece Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste" 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The online ecosystem has become so degraded that it has impaired people's ability to exercise taste.

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  Another conclusion might be that the online ecosystem has become so polluted-so fragmented, deceptive, overstimulating, ersatz-that it has warped our ability to exercise taste at all.

  Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com

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  AI companies promote themselves around 'taste' because their products are unappealing outside tech circles.

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  A.I. companies need to associate themselves with taste precisely because their tools are not very palatable, much less cool, to anyone outside of Silicon Valley.

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  Tech's embrace of 'taste' is an attempt to dress anti-humanist technology in humanist branding.

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  We might call what's going on now "taste-washing," an attempt to give anti-humanist technologies a veneer of liberal humanism.

  Why tech bros are obsessed with "taste"kylechayka.substack.com

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East

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  Anexcellent and original book, somewhere between a history and travel book.

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Programmer, teacher and speaker; long-time Microsoft developer-community figure, host of the Hanselminutes podcast and author of the hanselman.com blog.

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  Craftsmanship, taste, and human judgment remain valuable in software development despite AI-assisted coding tools.

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  There is value in good taste, there is value in craftsmanship, and there is value in human judgment.

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French software engineer, public speaker and fully remote nomadic worker; writes about frontend development at maxpou.fr.

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Astrophysicist and coffee researcher; author of The Physics of Filter Coffee and The Physics of Espresso, and writer of the Coffee ad Astra blog on brewing science and equipment.

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  Dripper diameter, with other brew variables held fixed, does not change extraction or taste — only batch size.

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  changing the dripper diameter, keeping all other important variables fixed, has no impact on the brew mechanics and the resulting cup, in an "idealized" scenario

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  The best product designers can switch their own taste off and match somebody else's, which is a separate skill from having taste at all.

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  I think the best, you know, designers on the product side can turn it on and off. They can go, I have my own taste. I know what I like. And then, okay, you're going for this. And that might be different than what I like, but I can match it brand as well.

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  A lot of people can match a framework for taste; almost nobody can create one, and creating one is the rare skill.

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  I think that for those who can create and then articulate a framework around what is taste for us that is really a important skill and uh then I think people can a lot of people can basically match a framework not many people can create the framework.

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  Taste is not innate; it is a loop of noticing whether you like something, asking why, and learning the canon that led to it.

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  It's just this loop of okay, I'm having an experience of any sense. Maybe I'm looking at art, maybe I'm hearing music, maybe I'm literally eating food and tasting something, you know, but like do I like it? Do I not like it? Why?

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  Taste necessarily implies judgment — that some things are good and some are bad — and you have to be willing to say so.

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  And there is something about judgment in there too. you know, uh, implied in taste is that some things are good and some things are bad. So, I think you have to be willing to lean into that yourself in terms of uh, being high judgment.

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Writer and novelist. Publishes essays and book notes at nateliason.com; author of the novel Husk and of Crypto Confidential.

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  As AI lowers the barrier to building software, personal taste becomes a more valuable differentiator.

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  But along with the question of what you're willing to maintain, as the barriers to creation drop the value of taste will only increase.

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Runs the mechanistic interpretability team at Google DeepMind; worked on interpretability at Anthropic under Chris Olah before that, and teaches the field to newcomers.

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  Research taste, the harder-to-learn conceptual skills behind good research strategy, takes a long time to develop but very little time to apply once acquired

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  My model is that research requires a mix of skills. The day-to-day coding and execution is crucial. But there's also a set of harder-to-learn conceptual skills, collectively called research taste. These skills take a long time to gain because they have poor feedback loops, but they take very little time to use.

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Founder of Terraform Industries and formerly a physicist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; writes about energy, space and manufacturing.

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  The average distance an electron travels between where it is generated and where it is consumed is going to fall radically.

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  So it's just very clear that like the average distance the electron is going to travel between generation and consumption is going to decrease in the future pretty radically.

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Coming up with a good conjecture is harder than solving one, and that taste for the right question is what separates great scientists from good ones.

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  So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.

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  Different people's areas of strongest judgment or taste rarely overlap much with each other.

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  it's quite rare for different people's "zone of best taste" to overlap very much.

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Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  Innovation depends on being near the factory floor; you cannot improve what is thirty hours of travel away.

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  When the factory floor is down the hall, instead of 30 hours of travel away, it’s easier to make improvements and invent.

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  Taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity, and the hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.

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  Good taste: taste is the ability to distinguish excellence from mediocrity. The hand can never consistently produce better than the eye can discern.

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Writer and former McKinsey/BCG strategy consultant; author of The Pathless Path and Good Work, about leaving the default career track. Publishes the Boundless newsletter and podcast.

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  If you desire to live a life with more travel and adventure, this is a must read. It challenges our default beliefs about time and money through the lens of travel.

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  This book is a short but inspiring take on living life on your terms while being pragmatic about money and how to make it happen. Reminds me of a less travel-centric Vagabonding.

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American travel writer and broadcaster. Runs Rick Steves' Europe and writes the guidebooks, packing advice and travel-tip articles published on ricksteves.com.

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  First, Break all the Rules

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  Gallup interviewed thousands of high-performing teams and managers and found a dozen of things each of these teams had in common. While the insights are good, the content itself was quite dry for my taste.

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