An essay: Taste Is All That's Left
Taste did not become less valuable. It became the only thing that was ever scarce. We just could not see it, because it was buried under all the labour it used to take to get to it.
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Everyone can make anything. Almost no one can tell you what is worth making.
That was always the harder skill. It is now the only one left.
The author is a software developer, but what he says applies to writers