On Creeds and Manifestos

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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
18. None

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

36. None

37. SVN vs. Rule #0

38. No bullshit

39. Creeds are not set in stone, iterate

40. Manifestos are better extracted than constructed