Ten thousand at a glance,
Pregnant moments unheard
Sweeter than chance.
Autistic reading
Yielding to artistic eye
Chinoiserie, Louis XVI.
Gallé, L’Argental, Arbus, Leleu
Amateurs talk strategy
Professionals: Deco.
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
Discernment earnedi
Eyes taught.ii
Digital ocean entwinediii
Proof-of-work mined
Ten thousand at a glance.
- To qoute Stepfanie Tyler from her piece Taste is the New Intelligence:
The frontier isn’t volume—it’s discernment. And in that shift, taste has become a survival skill.
Not taste in the superficial sense—not trend-chasing, not aesthetic mimicry, not expensive minimalism for the sake of status. Real taste. The kind that signals coherence. Clarity. The ability to choose what matters in a world drowning in what doesn’t. […]
You build taste the same way you build strength: by choosing the heavier lift. The richer input. The slower hit. The thing that doesn’t give you a dopamine spike, but gives you a deeper signal. […]
So you treat your inputs like they matter—because they do. And you let your attention become an act of reverence.
That’s how you cultivate taste. Not as status. But as self-respect.
- To quote Keats from his poem Ode on a Grecian Urn:
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” - To quote Dmitry from his piece Entwined:
A digital ocean of choice has made selectivity a cherished skill; the ability to distill is more valuable than ever. A glut of data has created a poverty of insight. Too much comfort and too little friction and you’ll soon starve of purpose. All of these are connected by invisible threads that tie together the human condition; a cosmic balance of payments where a material-account surplus is matched by a romantic-account deficit. Entwined. […]
There is only the choice of which scarcities we’ll embrace and which abundances we’ll pursue. Scarcity remains a teacher, motivator, and liberator. It forces prioritization, galvanizes creativity, and imposes the very constraints that make choice meaningful. It imbues purpose in that it compels you to act for yourself and for others.