Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
On Taste, Effort & Curiosity - again
When AI collapses how long it takes to ship, what’s left is judgment, experimentation, and knowing what not to build.
Works in Progress: The Long Journey to Doing Good Better
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know. — Albert Einstein
underneath
underneath.study is an offsite and online learning + arts collective dedicated to the principle of generosity as knowledge. situated in the belief of sharing skills, resources, and time, underneath.study and its offerings stem from generosity within and should be as accessible and straightforward as possible. our offerings are built on community and promise a tangible or lyrical artifact at the end to be shared as a token of shared time together, and published in our collective zine publication on a rolling basis.
Taste
On subjectivity, gatekeeping, and the risk of leaving design industry terms like taste undefined.
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
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Allegra A. Beal Cohen's blog about knowledge curation, new interfaces, and large-scale qualitative data.
Michael Baym on Twitter / X
Remember that you, by definition, cannot distinguish between a good idea and a failure of your own knowledge, judgement, or taste. This is why external (ideally expert) feedback is crucial— Michael Baym (@baym) March 25, 2026
Please stop multitasking. I’m begging you. Please.
The greatest trick we ever pulled on ourselves as knowledge workers was convincing ourselves we could juggle multiple projects with no consequences.
AI Policy - The Takeout
The Takeout is about making your life better through food. We celebrate high and low foods and drinks with equal reverence—with recipes, tips, features, advice, and taste tests in an authoritative and accessible way.
Relying on Others: An Essay in Epistemology
Abstract. This book concerns the role others play in our attempts to acquire knowledge of the world. Two main forms of this reliance are examined: testimon
Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management — Unattributed
Bridge heading into the smokey landscape. License: CC-0 I read Brennan Kenneth Brown's What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?...
The Best Tacit Knowledge Videos on Every Subject — LessWrong
TL;DR Tacit knowledge is extremely valuable. Unfortunately, developing tacit knowledge is usually bottlenecked by apprentice-master relationships. Ta…
Concentric Groups, Knowledge Bridges and Epistemic Communities
vs Elitism, Celebrity and Oligarchy This article is part of a series: ‘Stigmergy: Systems of Mass Collaboration’. Note: Concentric circles relate to sound amplification – the voic…
Ever thought we acquire generalizable knowledge by discarding details and compressing our experiences? In a new BBS paper, @sabinasloman.bsky.social and I argue otherwise, proposing a novel way of studying human learning inspired by double descent in ML. Disagree? Propose a commentary by May 15 :)
