When anybody can build anything, the taste to know what to build becomes the whole game.

Taste became the real skill

The real bottleneck in modern life isn't capability anymore—it's judgment. We've crossed into a world where the hard part isn't figuring out how to do something; it's deciding whether you should. A teenager can launch a podcast, build a website, or start a business from their bedroom. An artist can create with tools that would have cost thousands a decade ago. The technical barriers have basically evaporated. What hasn't gotten easier is the thing that actually matters: knowing what's worth building in the first place.

This shift reveals something uncomfortable about taste and taste-making. It's not about being naturally gifted or following a formula—it's about developing judgment through exposure, experimentation, and honestly, failure. You learn taste by making bad things and recognizing why they're bad. By consuming widely and learning to spot the difference between flashy and meaningful. By noticing what actually solves problems versus what just looks novel. In a world drowning in options and possibilities, the people who win aren't necessarily the fastest or most prolific builders. They're the ones who've trained themselves to see what genuinely needs to exist.