Here are some potential takeaways from this interview: 1. Developing personal taste and discernment is increasingly important for resisting the homogenizing effects of algorithms. 2. Data-driven optimization rewards predictable mass appeal rather than complexity and depth. 3. Review aggregators like Rotten Tomatoes have displaced individual critical voices and treat culture as a poll rather than a matter of judgment. 4. Human curators brought challenge by exposing people to the obscure; incentives now discourage weirdness. 5. Distraction-rich environments inhibit the patient attention needed to understand one's reactions and develop taste. 6. Patience with difficult, uncomfortable culture plays a developmental role in taste. 7. Discovering an artist's influences can give richer appreciation and self-understanding. 8. Uncovering artistic lineages teaches you about both aesthetics broadly and your personal taste. 9. The abundance of algorithmic recommendation makes it effortless to consume more culture but risks missing outlier works aligned with one’s idiosyncratic taste. 10. Balancing algorithmic and human-curated culture allows both breadth of access and cultivation of depth and individuality.
@makeadifference4all8 ай бұрын
Fortunately, podcasts like this still provide intelligent, unique, human curation through the choice of guests and topics.
@1patula8 ай бұрын
I couldn’t listen, vocal fry of the guest killed it for me. I guess it’s my taste
@singing-sands8 ай бұрын
Yup, what is that all about?
@Richiegalvan18 ай бұрын
Its L.A uuugh Bro uuuuugh @@singing-sands
@Tad202437 ай бұрын
verbal fry hell!
@stephaniebart-horvath13828 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for having such thought provoking shows on a wide variety of interesting topics.
@wolffkurt7 ай бұрын
This episode is thoughtful and fantastic. The conversation is heady but at the same time accessible - and a reminder that pursuing what we see as beauty and happiness isn't trivial but maybe the whole point.
@vutat14437 ай бұрын
An interesting conversation, thank you! It made me think that this conversation could only happen in the context of Western culture because it reveals an obsession with individuality and distinctiveness. Could it be that we're craving to be different and distinct so much that eventually this is why we lose our distinctiveness?
@daveking34948 ай бұрын
Warmth sounds like Fratres by Arvo Pert.
@futureZbright7 ай бұрын
Like i always say: "you can't help what you like".
@gefiltefist20887 ай бұрын
But you sure can talk about it!
@futureZbright7 ай бұрын
@@gefiltefist2088 📢
@aliciacoleman75198 ай бұрын
Very thoughtful perspectives from Kyle
@maxheadrom30887 ай бұрын
OMG! I have no idea what a sherpa jacket is! I'm feeling tasteless. I better go watch some Jeffrey Veidlinger lecture ... a historian I discovered by chance browsing KZbin!
@maxheadrom30887 ай бұрын
Though I'm not into it, I belive biting the tongue really hard would not be enough. oh ... got it ... I misunderstood the title - sorry.
@maxheadrom30887 ай бұрын
Do I really have to know what I am and what I like? That alone is such a huge task that I will never have taste! I'm also too old and I have spent most of my life doing the opposite ... looking for things I didn't like but that people I respected told me was good - all I managed to do is rearing music on the sound of an oil pump and considering 4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence to be the most important piece of the 20th century. What can I do now? I think there's no fixing me ... I'll die with a taste of rotten meat!
@gefiltefist20887 ай бұрын
That’s what I was thinking! Don’t let the New York Times editorial line turn you off music though. There’s a Nick Hornby book called “songbook” that’s like twenty essays on twenty of his favorite songs. I disagree quite vehemently with him on some of them, but it’s the best, most honest way to think and write about music I’m familiar with
@ventrust75077 ай бұрын
Put it on your tombstone. It’s just too corny.
@jamesbennett54307 ай бұрын
Unlistenable. It’s one thing to say pretentious stuff, but adding the pretentious voice is a deal killer.
@hadiza18 ай бұрын
💙🩷
@torrentialrage8 ай бұрын
I discovered my own taste after a night of eating taco bell.
@HM-mw7cg6 ай бұрын
Ah I was looking forward to reading his book but now I’ve discovered he has the most unbearable voice imaginable