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Taste Is the Last Defensible Moat

March 28, 2026By Atelier5 min

Distribution democratized. Production democratized. Models democratized. The only thing that did not democratize is judgment.

Taste is what tells you which idea to ship and which to bury. It is unreasonably valuable and impossible to fake.

You build it slowly: by curating your inputs, by working with people whose work you envy, by editing more than you create.

The premium creators of the next decade will not be the loudest. They will be the most considered.

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