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Jason Fried · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · whole document (4)

Jason’s favorite products: from V-Drums to a 1978 Porsche

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Um, and those numbers form the shape which form the the brake pedal which you'll never see because your eyes are not down there. But when you look at it, you go, "Ah, they cared enough about this thing. Someone was excited enough about this thing to make a special brake pedal. They could have chosen a brake pedal from another car they already had, but they made us bespoke one for this car." And it's those kinds of things that when I see that, I go, "Someone thought about this. the product manager there cared so much about this car that they did things like that. And so even though that's not a new product, it's an old product, it's fun to run into things like that cuz things like that aren't done anymore. And so it's neat to also run into old ideas, old things like that that uh that you can see there was care and attention and a cohesive whole. I

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would say this too. I know I'm going a little bit long in this answer, but I just like things where the whole idea is visible. There's there's a there's a complete idea here. That kind of thing is also, I think, a signal of good taste. Actually, another a good example of good taste is um Oh my god, I'm blanking on the guy's name. Give me just a second here. Um David Lynch. So, David Lynch, uh director who just died. Um here, I'm going to put this in the in the um in the chat for people who can who can see it uh who are around. We can pop this in the um in the LinkedIn comments too somewhere. Um, this is uh an auction for David Lynch's estate. Basically everything he ever owned. This is a beautiful example of

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good taste, great taste. If you look through the stuff that he owned, um, and you look carefully at these things and these objects, everything from industrial saws and presses to books to paintings to pieces of furniture to ashtrays. If you look at all this stuff together, you're going to see great taste. How to define that? You'll you'll see it when you see it and you'll know it when you know it. But you can see it in the individual items and you can see it in the collection of things that he chose to curate for himself that he surrounded himself with. That's the one of the best examples I've seen recently of a large collection that signifies great taste. Which piece would you buy or are you buying? I'm not going to tell you because I'm going to bid on some of these things. I don't want anyone to run them up. Um, there's some neat There's