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Paul Graham via Tim:
It can be hard to separate the things you like from the things you're impressed with. One trick is to ignore presentation. Whenever I see a painting impressively hung in a museum, I ask myself: how much would I pay for this if I found it at a garage sale, dirty and frameless, and with no idea who painted it? If you walk around a museum trying this experiment, you'll find you get some truly startling results. Don't ignore this data point just because it's an outlier.I do the same thing in reverse, too. After all, I genuinely liked Papa Roach and Vertical Horizon long before they hit TRL, why should I rule out Kelis just because I didn't hear "Milkshake" until it was already widely known as shitty MTV music?
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