Box #9
Paul Graham, Anti-Reading Lists, Rousseau, Golda Meir, Game Theory, Amnesia, Seneca
Paul Graham on taste: “The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.” A sense of taste begins with figuring out what you enjoy, but is only completed by cultivating the skill and agency needed to bring it into the world. While Kant distinguished taste from judgment, the former being subjective and non-categorical, bo…
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