Taste Test
Gordon Ramsay speaking on the High Performance podcast:
I have a different technique with young chefs today I teach them how to taste first before I teach them how to cook because they don't understand how it tastes to perfection they shouldn't be cooking it...so let's talk about the taste factor, let's close your eyes and tell me what that tastes of...so then there's multiple taste tests that is called an education on the palette and then we go to cook so they understand what it tastes like at its absolute moment of perfection then we're going to cook it. Too many chefs cook first and then they start tasting no taste the thing. First register where we're going with it and then go back, it's the opposite way around but it works brilliantly.
This is an obvious but incredibly underrated approach to craft in general. As we move towards a future where making is a solved problem, how something feels and how it makes the intended recipient feel is your unfair competitive advantage.
Or, in the words of Anu Atluru:
in a world where anyone can create anything, taste is what matters.