Personal style guide

Style emerges from consistency, and having a style opens your imagination. Your mind should be flexible, but your process should be repeatable.

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 a specific date format everywhere
• I pluralize tag and folder names (e.g. groups not group)
• I use plain text files for all my writing
• I ask myself reflection questions every year
• I meal prep lunches every week, and exercise twice a week
• I write short essays, less than 500 words

Collect constraints you enjoy. Unusual constraints make things more fun. You can always change them later.

Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you focus.