Having taste is a liability in large organizations but a huge advantage everywhere else.

Taste is the ability to cut to the core of a complex topic with an opinionated and caricatured but resonant and self-evidently true observation.

Taste and kayfabe are like matter and antimatter.

Taste is necessary out in the world on your own.

It's only in a protective cage of a successful organization that kayfabe is implicitly encouraged and considered useful.