Purpose

Making sounds against the silence.

Principles

  • The artist is correct.
  • Respect the road not taken.
  • Modularity.
  • Mobility.
  • Speed is life.
  • HOTAS.
  • see everything, touch everything
  • “The best you can do between now and Tuesday is still a kind of best you can do.” (Charles Eames in Industrial Design, October 1957)

Practices

  • Use filename conventions.
    • Use underscores for spaces.
    • Append date as "-YYYYMMDD."
  • Cite sources.
  • Set your field of play. Remove unneeded items.
  • Only make choices that affect the final product.
  • Preset many options with standards. Make the choice once.
  • Look it up.
  • Always be Knolling. (Bullet II from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
  • Keep a list. (Bullet III from Tom Sach's Ten Bullets)
  • Keep all projects in score order.
  • A tool is worth purchasing or keeping if:
    • It allows you to work faster.
    • It inspires a better performance.
    • It gives you new capabilities.
    • It gets you hired.
    • It makes the final project appreciably better.