Taste and influences
A taste package makes judgment usable: what to pay attention to, what to question, what to protect, and what a good result looks like. Smaak is where we work on that infrastructure.
These reading editions come from the actual packages: their philosophy, working methods, output standards, controls, and principle catalogues. Our own judgment sits alongside interpretations of thinkers whose work helps us see differently.
- 05.01 Goose Group Value for the person receiving the work. Judgment made explicit, useful experiments, and a company with room for gifts. Reading
- 05.02 Rory Sutherland Behavioural science and creative reframing: 75 principles for finding what the usual business brief leaves out. Reading
- 05.03 Mark Fisher Read the words and rituals that keep an organization performing what its people no longer believe. Reading
- 05.04 David Graeber Understand what a ritual is for, who carries the work of understanding, and how the arrangement could change. Reading
Each page identifies its Smaak source and capture date. The thinker packages are our interpretations, with sources and limits made explicit; they do not speak for their subjects. The full research and example libraries remain in Smaak.