On Creeds and Manifestos

Manifestos can be helpful and three sample manifestos: 2 fake ones and one real.

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1. On Creeds and Manifestos Nordic Ruby Lightning Talks, 2012
2. Nikolay Bachiyski @nikolayb http://extrapolate.me/
3. Manifestos help
4. Get values out of our heads
5. Make values explicit
6. Give us reasoning for decisions
7. 5 mins 3 manifestos 2 fake + 1 real
8. Personal SAMPLE
9. independent workaholic smart jerk
10. Work over family, unless there is a family emergency SAMPLE
11. Coldly logical over emotional & creative SAMPLE
12. I won’t do something just because somebody else is doing it SAMPLE
13. I will master one thing, not be Jack of all trades SAMPLE
14. I won’t be in debt for more than a month SAMPLE
15. Insult is taken, not given SAMPLE
16. Exercising is for sissies, who can’t get their shit together and eat properly SAMPLE
17. I won’t feel guilty for causing kittens and unicorns die SAMPLE
19. Team SAMPLE
20. building short-lived promotional sites
21. We’re in a sprint, not a marathon SAMPLE
22. I won’t be afraid to take huge risks, the site will be thrown away soon anyway SAMPLE
23. After I work overtime, I will take as much time off SAMPLE
24. Performance over scalability SAMPLE
25. Company
26. http://ma.tt/2011/09/automattic-creed/
27. I will never stop learning
28. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me
29. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo
30. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers
31. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything
32. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation
33. I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company
34. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day
35. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable
37. SVN vs. Rule #0
38. No bullshit
39. Creeds are not set in stone, iterate
40. Manifestos are better extracted than constructed