PART 2 · CHAPTER 15 · What Being Early Changes
Taste Becomes the Moat
When the machine can produce anything, the rarest input is knowing what is worth producing.
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WHAT THIS PAGE CONTAINS
A title, the published opening thesis and the chapter's section headings. The argument, evidence, examples and full prose remain in the book.
The chapter's route
- 01The Old Moats Leak
- 02Abundance Does Not Eliminate Judgment
- 03What Taste Really Is
- 04The Filter Is the Product
- 05Lessons From the Dynamo
- 06Deliberate Taste
- 07The Point of View Compounds
- 08Infinite Content and the Starving Mind
- 09The New Editor
- 10How Mediocrity Scales
- 11Taste Has a Supply Chain
- 12The Discipline of Refusal
- 13Learning to See the Almost Right
- 14Originality After the Flood
- 15The Taste Loop
- 16Markets Reward Coherence
- 17Humility and Standards
- 18What to Practice Now
- 19The Human Advantage