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>> "...highly subjective personal preference." I'm sorry to be the smug guy linking PG on HN, but this essay [0] directly engages your point here and IMHO pret
by avn2109 10y ago
>> "...highly subjective personal preference."
I'm sorry to be the smug guy linking PG on HN, but this essay [0] directly engages your point here and IMHO pretty conclusively refutes it. This is the money quote:
"As in any job, as you continue to design things, you'll get better at it. Your tastes will change. And, like anyone who gets better at their job, you'll know you're getting better. If so, your old tastes were not merely different, but worse. Poof goes the axiom that taste can't be wrong."
[0] http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
- Houshalter 10y agoIf the people buying and living in the house prefer it, how can you tell them their taste is wrong? What does it even mean for taste to be "wrong"? What are the actual consequences of it? If you go to a different culture, that has different food, architecture, music, art, etc, would you tell them they are wrong about everything and need to change? Would you listen to them if they told you your tastes were wrong? There is nothing objective about taste. It's entirely determined by associations you make in the brain. The author has associated "McMansion" architecture with things he doesn't like. Maybe the cheap construction they are associated with, or the people who live in those houses, etc. But other people can have completely different associations.