I think about this a lot—Ira Glass on the virtue of taste in creative work. (But cf. Dunning–Kruger: how can we know if we have good taste?)
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Now you're getting my point. Taste on the production side is nothing more than an internalized critic as one of the compiler passes.
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Ultimately taste is a critic's concern. In a producer its at best a super-ego that needs to be kept firmly in check.

