This feels like a small start to a significant idea. Vadik thinks long-term. He once had the following Codes Of Practise list from his previous business on his personal website, preserved by the sainted Wayback Machine:
- Wear the uniform
- Think long term (like 30 years from now)
- Build stories and languages, not things
- Create your own universe (or join ours)
- Collect samples
- Be a sample for somebody else
- Look for loyalty, not for a skill set
- Do not build utilitarian products. However, use them as a medium to express yourself
- Do not exploit introverts — doesn’t work long term. Learn to be an introvert yourself
- Travel more
- Do not work for corporations. Old corporations were meaningful when their founders were alive, but now, they have outlived their relevancy. They exist only to keep their numbers growing
- New corporations are no better. They have scaled up features, and today’s founders want hyper-growth for growth’s sake (it seems like every line of code, every feature deserves its own corporation — it sure doesn’t)
- So, fuck the corporations
- Tell the truth (bullshit never works long term)
- Study and research fashion
- Your phone is a temporary feature — don’t spend your life on it (like you wouldn’t spend it on a fax machine)
- Fuck likes, followers, fake lives, fake friends
- Remake your environment. Build it for yourself, and people will come
- Only trust those who make things you love
- Move to LA
- Don’t buy property
- Don’t go to Mars (just yet)
- Use only one font, just a few colors, and just a few shapes
- Use spreadsheets, but only to map out 30 cells — one for each year of the rest of your life
- The next three are the most important
- The past doesn’t exist — don’t get stuck in it
- Don’t go to Silicon Valley (it’s not for you if you’re still reading this)
- Remind yourself daily: you and everyone you know will die
- We must build the most beautiful things
- We are 2046 kids
by way of Orbital Operations, written by Warren Ellis
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