#8092026-03-27· 0h 20m

The Skill That Made Steve Jobs Exceptional (and how to learn it)

Hosted bySam Parr & Shaan Puri

Sam Parr lays out a four-step process for developing good taste — the skill he argues is becoming the ultimate moat in the age of AI. He traces the line from Bauhaus to Braun to the iPod to show how Steve Jobs used this exact playbook, then walks through how he personally applied it to fashion and how anyone can use it for web design, writing, or building a brand.

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