This was written August 18, 21 and 22, 2024
Introduction
Let’s start it starkly, I’ve titled this “My Manifesto“. This might feel a little intense, but I think intensity is what I need (Even if it’s possible I’m misusing the term “Manifesto”).
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about my life, where I’m at, and what I want out of my future. For this reason, I’ve realized I should define what I care about and want to accomplish, and use those as guiding principles moving forward. Thus, I’m writing my personal “Manifesto”, guidelines on how I to approach things. I you could also call these commandments, or an equivalence of the laws of Robotics.
Rules/Axioms
- strive to encourage people to learn new things, keep growing and become self-reliant, and to enjoy the process.
- I strive to learn new things for myself and to keep growing.
- I strive to create useful tools and techniques that will bring value to others.
Corollaries
From these three rules, I can derive some other helpful guidelines, which I’ll name corollaries.
- In order to encourage people to learn and grow, I should inspire them, while also showing the inevitable pitfalls and growing pains, and how to approach them.
- In order to encourage people to learn new things, I should cultivate their curiosity.
- In order to help people become self-reliant, to myself learn new things, and to build useful tools, I must keep improving my own techniques, rigor and diligence, while documenting the process for others.
As time progresses, I will undoubtedly want to refine these axioms and corollaries, and possibly uncover new ones.
Conclusion
This is the current iteration of my personal “Manifesto”, which I will use to keep sight of my goals as I work on personal projects; a guiding light. Hopefully this proves useful to me, or maybe even to others. Though for now, I might create a condensed version to print and stick to my wall, as a personal reminder.