[[Notes]] - Topics: [[Organization]] - People: [[Adam Savage]] - Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70TZua1j3Fc --- ## Summary - [[It is not a problem to solve. It is a process to manage.]] - [[Collect resources that may be useful. Routinely organize resources to keep them useful.]] - [[Having a crap ton of stuff means you have a ton of crap]]. - [[Stuff becomes crap the moment you fail to find it]]. - [[Store stuff that speak to both practicality and imagination]]. ## Notes - "It's a process... that involves really investigating and **seeing what you are using**". - Establish a routine where you discard scraps every couple of months. - The scraps you discard may meet or fail to meet a specification of some kind, i.e. width or height. - [[Collect resources that may be useful. Routinely organize resources to keep them useful.]] - Proceed with insight based on actual usage, not imagination and hopeful usage. - "[[Be merciless with your scraps]]". - "[[The answer to all of these questions is - it's always it's a process]]". - [[It is not a problem to solve. It is a process to manage.]] - "Sometimes you've got to process your scraps". - See what may be useful and make it actually useful. - [[Having a crap ton of stuff means you have a ton of crap]]. Having a curated bunch of crap means you have a curated collection of stuff. - [[Stuff becomes crap the moment you fail to find it]]. - "My preferred way to store costumes is always on a mannequin - I want to see all of them... But it is the least effective, efficient way to store stuff." - Sometimes displaying stuff is the best way to organize them. - [[The storage method speaks to both practicality and imagination]]. - (Remaking organizers). "It's an expensive and time consuming process." - "It's a thing." - "Nothing is static. Nothing stays the same." - "I thought I was solving a problem. But over the years, I've learned how I haven't solved all the problems I was hoping to solve with that." - "[[A lot of times, it's about working with an imperfect situation until I'm angry enough about it to actually fix it and solve the problem]]". ## Original ![[Ask Adam Savage - When to discard scrap materials-1.jpg]] ![[Ask Adam Savage - When to discard scrap materials-2.jpg]]