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Hmm, I claim neither refined taste nor superior marketing ability. I’ve only cultivated minimum viable mediocrity at both. But I’m indifferent to both in a very specific way that makes them marginal concerns to me. Except I can’t name the central concern they’re marginal to.
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For years people have accused me of both a) leaving $ on the table, by not marketing myself enough and b) trafficking in middlebrow non-aesthetic stuff. But these are not a result of deliberate intent to self-sabotage or offend connoisseurs. They are side effects of solving for X
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Nah I detest marketing, but "rely on word of mouth and being a premium product" is basically "taste" marketing
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True tastistas are dismayed even by wom success. They do not want taste to be profitable either socially or financially. The average tasteista sees suffering as proof of genuine pursuit of the essence of taste, and palliation of pain as betrayal of aesthetic true north.
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I don’t judge them for that. To each their own. Some people just experience life with such intensity and sensitivity, the pain of living tastelessness exceeds material suffering. It’s a neuro-atypical condition of sorts, like being aspie.
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