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Taste is when you’ve amassed enough of those cultural influences that you start to believe the ideas and the cultural synthesis comes from within.
Designing Products People Love
Scott Hurff
Christina undertook a massive project. She read and reviewed more than 650 parenting books and manuals, dating all the way back to the mid-1700s; around this time, “experts” began writing manuals for “intelligent parents,” and the field of pediatrics began to emerge as a distinct discipline. The resulting book, called Dream Babies, traces the history of parenting advice from John Locke in the 1600s to the rise of Bill and Martha Sears in the 1990s.
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
He repeatedly refers to the “Daytime Oscars” he’s won, and makes passive-aggressive jokes about the fact that the show didn’t send a car for him, or about the cash bars that his rich Hollywood friends have at their parties. Sometimes he channels the louche vibe of a lesser Rat Packer.
Is Martin Short the Greatest Talk-Show Guest of All Time?
newyorker.com
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