[jjude]

I want to get good at "taste"

I am a software engineer and I have trained to think logically and structurally. In that processes, I have lost "taste". I don't have any design (user facing) capability. I bet in the near future, developing apps and hosting will become so easy that we will soon see "substack for apps" [1].

If I'm right, the thing that will set me still apart (I'm currently a CTO with 30 years of experience) will be taste and not engineering. Or putting it differently, taste + engineering will set me apart than just engineering.

I don't know what that will look like yet. But that is what I want to learn in 2026.

[1]: https://jjude.com/substack-for-apps/