Taste Is the Bottleneck is a 10-part series. Use this page as the table of contents and read the posts in order.

Read the series in order

  1. When Output Is Infinite, Taste Becomes the Constraint
  2. Taste Is Not Preference
  3. Learning to See What Good Looks Like
  4. Taste Is Judgment Under Constraint
  5. Taste as Compression: Reducing the Search Space
  6. Bad Taste: The Failure Modes of Discernment
  7. Taste Must Stay Calibrated
  8. Team Taste: Making Quality Legible
  9. Taste and AI
  10. The Taste Audit

Start with When Output Is Infinite, Taste Becomes the Constraint. If you want the practical diagnostic, jump to The Taste Audit.