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Michael Mistretta #
How I Remember Stuff
I have a weird way of remembering things. Some rely heavily on planners to stay abreast upcoming events or simple reminders with the intent to refer to them later but I’ve gone through enough abandoned Moleskines and various other forms of convenient to carry notebooks to inform me that this process is not for me when it comes to getting things done.
I take pleasure in the whole process of writing and I get quite envious when I see people have a fully active notebook inscribed with ideas or list of things because I can’t keep up with something like that. The mere act of writing good notes down, is well enough that I rarely end up having to look at those notes again. In a psychological study on the subject, Dustin best describes this interesting fact:
…before we write, although indistinguishably so — we are putting some degree of thought into evaluating and ordering the information that we are receiving. That process, and not the notes themselves, is what helps fix ideas more firmly in our minds, leading to greater recall down the line.
Kyle Meyer’s interesting statement in that there’s no trend in design but “merely an illusion of one” because there’s a large group of people who he refers to as “stylists” in the design field.
Stylists are people who are technically proficient with the tools of the trade to create design, but lack knowledge of the design process. Rather than applying the process they simply find something they find cool at the time and reproduce a spin-off of it.Drawing inspiration from other people’s work assumes that you follow along the lines of any element that you might have found appealing and make it your own without the feeling that it will compete or be compared with the original. I think we’re all guilty of being a ‘stylists’ at least once.