[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Organization]] - People: [[Laura Kampf]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHfjImav1FU --- ## Summary - BETTER TO HAVE THAN TO NEED. - [[Always be knolling]]. - Keep your supplies and tools in organized and in stock to ensure that when you get into creative flow, you can stay there. - CURATION IS EVERYTHING. - [[Know your aesthetic]]. - [[Use your space and stuff wisely]]. - BUILD A SCALABLE SYSTEM. - Your system is grow as you grow - matures as you mature. - Decide, stay organized, and scale. - MAKE SYSTEMS INTUITIVE. - [[Don't make it more intellectual. Make it more intuitive.]] - [[Don't think, know]]. - [[My system is under thinking - so it's more intuitive.]] - COLOR CODE. - Categorize your stuff using [[Visual control]]. - BUILD BIGGER THAN YOU NEED. - Give yourself space to refine and to scale. ## Notes ### 1. Better to have than to need - There's a difference between not having something that you thought you had vs. never having something to begin with. The first example is one that can disrupt creative flow. - If you're in flow, then you have to stop because you don't have what you need, it stops the flow. It stops the intuition. It stops the creative process. - It then takes a lot of energy to get back into flow. - The creative flow is a precious thing. Not only is it good for raw output, but it is effective for creative problem solving. - Sometimes, the constraint of not having something can inspire you to come up with alternative solutions. - Whenever I order something, I order double. - "Yes I may be a hoarder, but there's rule #2." ### 2. Curation is everything - [[At least 50% of my design work is curating the things that I work with]]. And [[Know your aesthetic|knowing my own aesthetic]]. - Curating the stuff you stock and surround yourself with keeps you from hoarding. It also ensures that you [[Use your space and stuff wisely]]. - "I don't have a negative example because I don't keep stuff that I don't need." - You can also keep stuff that inspires you - stuff that you know you'll one day make use of. - [[Curate what you hoard - then it's not hoarding.]] ### 3. Build a scalable system - You have to grow your system at some point. - Decide and construct your system in a manner were the container (equivalents) of your system can expand in an organized manner. - You invest in your shop organization. ### 4. Make systems intuitive - Don't overthink how to categorize your stuff. - [[Don't make it more intellectual. Make it more intuitive.]] - [[Don't think, know]]. [[Don't think, feel]]. - [[My system is under thinking - so it's more intuitive.]] - Create a categorization system. Become proficient in the categorization of things. ### 5. Color code - Color coding is a categorization method that uses [[Visual control]]. ### 6. Build bigger than you need - Give yourself space to refine and to scale. - Leave your containers half full. This provides space for more stuff in the future as you scale. - [[Smallest parts are the hardest to keep track of]].