P2 · CHAPTER 15 · 90-DAY EXPERIMENT

90-day experiment for “Taste Becomes the Moat

Test “Taste Becomes the Moat” through a small, reversible 90-day experiment. The objective is evidence and reusable learning, not proving the book right.

WORKBOOK SEQUENCE

  1. 01

    State the practical hypothesis suggested by: When the machine can produce anything, the rarest input is knowing what is worth producing.

  2. 02

    Choose one observable signal from each theme: The Old Moats Leak; Abundance Does Not Eliminate Judgment; What Taste Really Is; The Filter Is the Product; Lessons From the Dynamo; Deliberate Taste; The Point of View Compounds; Infinite Content and the Starving Mind; The New Editor; How Mediocrity Scales; Taste Has a Supply Chain; The Discipline of Refusal; Learning to See the Almost Right; Originality After the Flood; The Taste Loop; Markets Reward Coherence; Humility and Standards; What to Practice Now; The Human Advantage.

  3. 03

    Set a baseline, weekly action, success threshold, cost ceiling and explicit stop condition.

  4. 04

    Review at days 30, 60 and 90; preserve useful examples, distribution or evaluation assets even if the hypothesis fails.

EXPECTED OUTPUT

Leave with a decision artifact.

A 90-day experiment brief with baseline, weekly cadence, thresholds, checkpoints and a final keep/change/stop decision.