taste is a practice, not a personality.

the gap between what people say they like and what they return to. the second list is the real one.

recommendation engines flattened discovery into whatever performs. training your own filter is now a competitive advantage.

• 01keep a refusal log for 11 days. what you say no to defines taste faster than what you praise.
• 02one artifact a day, described in one sentence, without adjectives you have used before.
• 03steal structure, not surface. copy why something works, never how it looks.

curated by members of fully opinionated and the wider commoisseur network, with counterpoints kept intact.

• 01a 111-day experiment in buying nothing new and documenting every want.
• 02a members' canon: eleven artifacts that changed how a collective argues.

taste maxxing × money matters: what does your taste cost, and who is paying for it?

1. pick one domain — food, film, type, code, clothes.
2. publish your current top eleven and your reasoning.
3. revisit in 111 days and publish what moved.

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