I talked to @_TamaraWinter about tacit knowledge and the illegible social scaffolding that supports so much of society. Tammy is essentially a professional tastemaker: she and the @stripepress team choose which ideas are worthy of Stripe's global audience in the form of a few books a year. She's also a deeply relational and charismatic person who moves through the world with a fundamental interest in other people. Highlights: - the 2 keys to taste: absorption and deployment - charisma, living relationally, and a "seamless web of deserved trust" - why small talk leads to big talk - how small social affordances hold up safe cities - cultural arson: the antisocial dark side of "you can just do things" - the healthy kind of agency: an internal locus of control - three women of history Tammy hopes to rhyme with - why Charlie Munger cared more to talk about standards than compounding - why you should read more biographies Available on all platforms below, and transcript.