Can you learn taste?

Yes.

Taste is the ability to judge the quality of solutions.

It develops through repeatedly seeing the long-term consequences of decisions. This makes taste closely related to wisdom.

Good taste also requires care for people and the reality in which they live. This is the problem situation, and new knowledge will be required to solve it, whether deciding what clothes to wear to a party or how to structure your code. People with good taste generally understand aspects of the problem situation that others are not considering.

Finally, having taste requires an intolerance to merely adequate or sufficient solutions.

Taste is an overused word that I would prefer not to use. Judgment is better. Here are some things that have helped me improve my judgment:

The books of Edward Tufte:

https://t.co/VDpgo8OBTF

A Pattern Language:

https://t.co/lb9jhbde2B

Dressing the Man:

https://t.co/r3GbqrVMCy

Noah Daniel on interior design:

https://t.co/k16HzqL0ww