product taste

“At Vercel we have one of our sort of internal operating principles as increasing exposure hours. Try to quantify how much time you expose yourself to watching how people use your products. Even to watch how people use other products. And you'll develop that mu…”

“You can create a real advantage for yourself, for your product, for your company by leaning into it because most people don't have good taste and don't invest.”

“If I had to describe what taste actually means, it's you're able to run. This is such a nerdy way of describing it. You're able to run a virtual machine in your head. Where given an idea, you can predict for a certain in-group whether they're going to like it …”

“In a world where it's easier to build things, it's more important to make sure that your time is spent figuring out what you should be building in the first place.”