Reading
Articles, essays, and ideas I keep coming back to. AI, taste, luxury, and what matters.
The Atlantic
The Importance of Taste in the AI Era
In a world of limitless AI-generated choices, taste becomes the essential human skill — a subtle sensibility, more secret weapon than personality trait.
Forbes
LVMH Sees The AI Challenge For Luxury Is Not Technology But The Human Element
LVMH's position that AI's real challenge in luxury is preserving the irreplaceable — craftsmanship, creativity, emotional connection.
Behavioral Scientist
How to Cultivate Taste in the Age of Algorithms
By the author of Filterworld. Taste is a cultivatable skill that becomes critical as algorithms flatten culture into sameness.
WIRED
AI Will Make Human Art More Valuable
The advent of AI renders human art more precious by contrast. What's made by hand becomes rare, and rarity is value.
Fast Company
How Human Curation Came Back to Clean Up AI's Messes
Major tech companies rediscovering the human touch after over-investing in algorithmic recommendations.
The Guardian
In the Age of the Algorithm, the Human Gatekeeper Is Back
As information explodes, human curation and editorial judgment become more, not less, valuable.
Google Cloud Blog
Inside LVMH's Data Estate, Where Luxury AI Agents Are Taking Root
The tension revealed: how the world's largest luxury conglomerate deploys AI while fiercely protecting human craft and creative judgment.
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