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#[1]Steph Ango [2]Steph Ango
[3]Steph Ango / [4]Writing [5]About [6]Now
Style is consistent constraint
September 3, 2023 •2 minute read
Oscar Wilde once said:
“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”
When it comes to ideas, I agree — allow your mind to be changed. When
it comes to process, I disagree. Style emerges from consistency, and
having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible,
but your process should be repeatable.
Style is a set of constraints that you stick to.
You can explore many types of constraints: colors, shapes, materials,
textures, fonts, language, clothing, decor, beliefs, flavors, sounds,
scents, rituals. Your style doesn’t have to please anyone else. Play by
your own rules. Everything you do is open to stylistic interpretation.
A style can be a system, a pattern, a set of personal guidelines. Here
are a few of mine:
* I wear monochromatic clothing without logos
* I use YYYY-MM-DD dates everywhere
* I pluralize tag and folder names (e.g. #people not #person)
* I use [7]plain text files for all my writing
* I ask myself [8]40 questions every year
* I meal prep lunches every week, shave my head twice a week
* I write [9]concise essays, less than 500 words
Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more
fun. You can always change them later. This is your style, after all.
It’s not a life commitment, it’s just the way you do things. For now.
Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and
gives you focus. I always pluralize tags so I never have to wonder what
to name new tags.
Style gives you leverage. Every time you reuse your style you save
time. A durable style is a great investment.
Style helps you know when you’re breaking your constraints. Sometimes
you have to. And if you want to edit your constraints, you can. It will
be easier to adopt the new constraints if you already had some clearly
defined.
You don’t need a style for everything. Make a deliberate choice about
what needs consistency and what doesn’t.
If you stick with your constraints long enough, your style becomes a
cohesive and recognizable [10]point of view.
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Appendix
I am starting a collection of interesting personal style choices.
Please [11]send me examples and I’ll add them to the list.
* [12]Scott Yu-Jan [13]paints all his tools white.
* [14]2ynthetic uses a [15]limited palette for outfits and [16]office
decor.
* [17]Johnny Decimal is a system to organize digital data.
* [18]Casey Neistat labels everything [19]in his studio with paint
markers.
* Ryan Hoover [20]never changes his profile picture.
* Wes Anderson uses [21]the typeface Futura in many of his films.
* [22]Steve Jobs wore the same Issey Miyake black turtleneck and New
Balance 991 shoes every day.
* George R.R. Martin writes his novels on the 40 year old DOS
operating system
* Beethoven always counted exactly 60 coffee beans to make coffee,
especially for visitors.
* Jesper Kouthoofd of [23]Teenage Engineering [24]only uses lowercase
because uppercase communicates too much authority
* Osvaldo Cavandoli created the cartoon [25]La Linea using an
animated white line, colored backgrounds, and unintelligible
vocalizations
Linked mentions
[26]Don't specialize, hybridize
Specialization is too heavily encouraged as a career path. Becoming a
generalist is one alternative, but there is...
[27]Buy wisely
Whenever I buy things I try to prioritize cost per use. Sometimes I
consider other priorities such as...
[28]Obsidian Vault Template
I use Obsidian to write and take notes. This is my bottom-up approach
to note-taking and organizing things...
[29]Flexoki
Flexoki is an inky color scheme for prose and code. Flexoki is designed
for reading and writing on...
You might also enjoy
* [30]Buy wisely
* [31]Concise explanations accelerate progress
* [32]Scars are beautiful
* [33]Don't delegate understanding
* [34]Nibble and your appetite will grow
* [35]How I do my to-dos
* [36]Calmness is a superpower
* [37]Design is compromise
* [38]A little bit every day
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17. https://johnnydecimal.com/
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20. https://www.ryanhoover.me/post/why-i-never-change-my-profile-pic
21. https://www.marksimonson.com/notebook/view/RoyalTenenbaumsWorldofFutura
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