PI.FYI SPOTLIGHT: @WEIRD

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For today's spotlight, we're featuring Kait aka, @WEIRD. Her profile is packed with thoughtful recommendations, and I genuinely love reading every one. Back in November she asked PI users, 'What's Your Party Trick?' and I’m still curious about everyone’s answers… so go show that ask some love. Lucky for us, Kait's here to tell us more about what she's into and what 'taste' means to her.

I am a recovering military brat with a background in nonprofit marketing strategy and a lifelong affinity for craft. As of late, I’ve described myself as consistent-when-passionate, a big proponent of a growth mindset, and as you’ll see frequently on my profile, a serial hobbyist.

What does “taste” mean to you? 

My taste is the amalgamation of every experience I've ever had, wrapped up and presented as a fixation or recent preference. I say recent because I strongly believe throughout the entirety of your life, many things about you remain fluid: your values, your taste, and your you. I’m an everchanging being! My current taste represents me as I’m writing this, hell, I could look back 8 days from now and feel entirely differently. You like what you like until you don’t.

How do you choose an experience that’s worthy of recommendation(in your eyes)? Is it a recurring moment of joy, or based on a gut feeling? 

For me, recs come from everywhere. My recs could be something I have just tried and have to share. They could be on constant rotation during whatever season of my life. They could’ve existed in the nostalgia cave of my psyche, only just breaching the mouth following the digestion of another rec. Recs are all around for those with fingers to type them. 

Which PI.FYI user should we feature next? 

Easily, @ARIASCALLING I had the pleasure of meeting Maddie at the Denver PI.FYI meetup in September and instantly was like, “yeah, I wanna hear more from you.” We don’t really talk so my rec may come as a surprise to her, I just think she’s really passionate about music and has a really interesting perspective that I’d love to see more of.