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transcribed notes on taste: If you want taste, you're gonna have to eat. I think now, as AI has allowed more and more people to create things, the biggest differentiation, the biggest skill people are lacking, is taste itself. What does that mean, right? Taste is a little bit of aesthetic judgment, knowing what's beautiful. But I think taste is really your ability to model out what people will like. And a lot of that requires you to not just consume, right? Like if you want to be a good chef, you have to eat at people's restaurants. You can't just look at the menu. It's curation versus consumption. And with AI there's so much more volume of work now, so it's really easy to regress to the mean. In which case it's not really taste. Taste is a kind of risk-taking. You're choosing to deviate from the safe average. There's this story about Kobori Enshū, the tea master who came after Rikyū. A student told him, your taste must be even better than Rikyū's, because everything you collect, everyone agrees is beautiful. Rikyū's collection, only Rikyū could appreciate. And Enshū said no, that's exactly why I'm the lesser man. I was just picking what most people would like. Rikyū had the courage to love things only he could see. I felt this in art school. My taste exceeded my ability. I could see what good work looked like, I just couldn't make it yet, and I didn't have the words to describe what was going on. Now AI flips that. Ability is basically free, so for most people, ability exceeds taste. You can make anything, and you don't know what's worth making. Walter Benjamin talked about mechanical reproduction stripping the aura from art. I think AI does something worse. It gives you the destination without the hours of noticing that used to get you there. In music, transcribing a solo forces you to listen deeply, right? You sit there rewinding the same four bars over and over. AI can just give you the chart. But it gives you the chart, not the ear. So AI doesn't just strip the aura from art, it strips the aura from learning. The felt distance that made a skill feel earned. This has been true for how I learned pottery, right? I can't mechanistically learn pottery. I just have to feel and listen to my intuition. You know, there are video games that don't allow minimaps, because the designers felt that by having waypoints, players would just walk from one area to another and not really notice where anything is. And we don't really wander down streets anymore. We take Ubers that take us there directly. We used to learn places by wandering. Now we follow the blue line. So if AI shifts the bottleneck from making to noticing, then apprenticeship has to be reinvented around attention. Taste grows with attention. If the tools remove the attention, you have to put it back.

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@jomatech I only found the account a few days ago but I don’t think I have laughed so hard for so long wehn watching your videos in about a decade… Open to Work really got the belly laughs straight to unbearable! 😆

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@mevry You got some good taste

@jomatech This got better and better. Thought I heard a starcraft sound effect too.

@xshinxbt That is gorgeous. If you look closely, my special exodia cards.

@jomatech *manly fainting noises

@DNormandin1234 Premiere pro for editing. Obs for screen recording. I film with a7s iii

@jomatech i like the comedy you implemented in it. I want to do something similar. what tools do you use for editing/recording, etc?

I'm building an app to make $10,000/Month and I'll record everything... I want to document my WHOLE journey building an app, marketing it, and making money off of it. Is it really that easy? How hard is it? I've been seeing so many X users online talking about how easy it is to make money online with AI now. I want to test it and show people the reality of making a business online.

@techbuildtube My problem is not having money

@jomatech You should build an app to solve a problem not to make money

@aleynamisu Isn’t it just the thumb position?

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@NadavKeyson I don’t see anything! Maybe X DMs are broken, send it to business@joma.io if I don’t reply

@jomatech We'd love for you to! Check your DMs :D

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@fbwalker4 We'll see in the next episode! paid ads, tiktok, spamming reddit, who knows

@jomatech Good luck. How will you market it?

@theiiimpact I’ll cross that bridge when it comes. I’ll see if I can even get a customer

So hesitant to ‘build in public’ esp if it’s a lucrative idea with a low barrier to entry. Great for distribution if there are eyes on the videos, but if competition wants to see what you did, and the speed at which ai can replicate other apps, they can copy your final results and short cut to launch in days.

@aminfseo I’m famous but I’m stupid with money

@jomatech I think with 120k X followers, you should aim for 100k in 3 months

@MohanKu94942468 You can watch is here on X or “Joma 2nd Channel” on YouTube

@jomatech which youtube channel will you be posting it on?

@nsxdavid Thanks for believing in meeee

@jomatech I've done all of that, and a lot more, without having worked at any of those companies. Believe me, you can.

@BH1_Gideon24 You da bomb

@jomatech Just subscribed.

@LucasFlandre Merci!

@jomatech I believe in you FROM FRANCE

@BH1_Gideon24 Yes! The channel is “Joma 2nd Channel”

@jomatech You got this on YT?