{"id":2946,"date":"2026-04-28T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:22:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:22:46","slug":"taste-and-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/taste-and-opinion\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste and Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/routerjockey.com\/tim-cook-is-leaving-good\/\">This post<\/a> is a critique of present day Apple software without Steve Jobs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phrase Jobs kept circling back to was that the people running these companies eventually \u201chave no conception of a good product versus a bad product.\u201d They can\u2019t tell the difference&#8230; Software lives or dies on judgment calls a thousand times a day&#8230; Those decisions can\u2019t be operationally optimized. They have to be made by someone who actually uses the thing and has an opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which made me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/24715531\">Ira Glass&#8217;s observation<\/a> that closing the gap between knowing what&#8217;s good and being able to make it requires caring enough to keep trying. That&#8217;s not something you can operationalize away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taste and opinion cannot be operationalized away.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2953,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}