Values

These values are reminders to myself, I may not manage to meet them fully, but I wrote these as a reference to help me guide my actions and decisions.

• ❤️ Respect

  I respect others, I tell people when I think they're wrong and I stand up for people when I believe they are being treated unfairly. I listen to others without judgement or prejudice. I find the human not the label.

  I respect myself, I believe in my own value separate from the value I bring to others. I protect my mental health.

  I love and put love into everything I make, and I love and have empathy for the person I make it for.

  I respect all life as precious and rare in the universe.

• 🌱 Growth

  I invest in my own growth and the growth of others. I give credit to others for being instrumental to my growth.

  I believe life isn't zero-sum and I can only be free to grow when everyone else is as we are parts of the same system. The most successful life is symbiotic. I support unions.

  Life is not zero-sum but it is a closed system and in that system any unconstrained growth is eventual death to the entire system.

  I remember that however much I believe I have grown that I have further to go and there is something new I can learn from everyone.

  I believe education is the foundation of society. I value diversity and contrasting experience from my own.

• 🌍 Environmental Responsibility

  I leave everything at least no worse than I found it and preferably better. I structure my daily life to minimise my impact on the planet and our environment. I work from home. Where I can, I walk or get the train.

  I will not turn down and waste something made for me, but I choose not to eat meat when deciding for myself.

• ♻️ Efficiency not waste

  I avoid waste in all forms; Time, materials, resources, effort, thought. I share what I've learnt so other people can benefit, and I make use of the learnings of other people. I support open source, open education, shared tools and group effort.

  I am efficient with what I make and how I make it. Less code, less energy consumption, elegant design. I look at nature and iteration.

  Reduce, repair, recycle, reuse.

• 🐴 I ask myself WWBATD

  Be excellent to each other; Party on dudes!