What Matters in the Age of AI Is Taste
Sari Azout
The author argues that having a curated personal knowledge base is essential in the age of AI, as it helps you provide context and improve the output of AI tools. AI is powerful but lacks taste, so combining it with your unique insights can lead to better creative results. Instead of passively consuming information, actively curate and organize your ideas to enhance your creative process with AI.
23 Feb 2025
At first, I saw using AI as a binary choice between soulless efficiency or becoming a luddite and preserving your authentic human creativity.
Over the last few months, Claude has become my dream creative partner, and I haven’t lost my soul. This broke my brain a little bit.
Curiosity is a better compass than cynicism—it shifts from defending your territory to exploring what's possible
The more AI can execute, the more your eye for what's interesting – your ability to discern and curate what matters and why – becomes everything.
But if you don’t have a home for the references, quotes, notes, and highlights that moved you—what are you giving AI to work with?
All that is to say: A curated personal knowledge base has never mattered more. Not just to remember what inspires you, but to teach AI to see through your eyes.
First, you need to cultivate a deeper relationship with your gut. The more our world becomes measurable and quantifiable, the more we need spaces that preserve what can't be measured—the hunches we can't explain, the patterns we feel but can't prove.