Now that the dust is settled, what’s really funny to me about the taste commentary is it’s coming from a LOT of people who never have built anything.. You can’t achieve (or refine) taste without being in the arena. It’s like a chef cooking and expecting their first dish to be good on the first go. But, when you give it a 100 iterations and maybe cook a 100 dishes, then the 101st one has imbued all the lessons from those 10,000 iterations. But, if you over fit without much variation, then people get tired of it since well they want something new as well. The best people are able to learn, imbue and innovate by breaking patterns consistently. It’ll be interesting to see how AI does the same - and unlike most people I think it has a fair shot at actually building taste. End rant.
现在尘埃落定后，在我看来，关于“品味”（taste）的那些评论里真正好笑的一点是：有很多很多发言的人，自己从来没有真正构建过任何东西。你不亲自下场，就不可能形成（或打磨）品味。这就像一个 chef 做菜，却指望自己第一道菜第一次尝试就很好吃。但如果你做了 100 次迭代（iterations），也许还真的做了 100 道菜，那么第 101 道就会吸收此前那 10,000 次迭代中的所有经验教训。不过，如果你在变化不多的情况下过度拟合（over fit），人们最终也会厌倦，因为他们同样想要新东西。最优秀的人能够持续打破既有模式，在这个过程中学习、吸收并创新。很有意思的是，AI 会如何做到同样的事——而且和大多数人不同，我认为它其实很有机会真正建立起品味。吐槽完毕。
Written for the seed founder who’s building something really important in a not-so-hot category.. I see you 🙏
这是写给那位 seed founder——你正在一个不那么热门的赛道里，打造某个真正重要的东西……我看见你了 🙏