{"id":2274,"date":"2024-08-22T11:09:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T11:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/?p=2274"},"modified":"2024-10-23T14:05:39","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T14:05:39","slug":"my-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/my-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"My Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\r\n<i>This was written August 18, 21 and 22, 2024<\/i>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\r\n<p>Let&#8217;s start it starkly, I&#8217;ve titled this &#8220;My <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manifesto\">Manifesto<\/a>&#8220;. This might feel a little intense, but I think intensity is what I need (Even if it&#8217;s possible I&#8217;m misusing the term &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about my life, where I&#8217;m at, and what I want out of my future. For this reason, I&#8217;ve realized I should define what I care about and want to accomplish, and use those as guiding principles moving forward. Thus, I&#8217;m writing my personal &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;, guidelines on how I to approach things. I you could also call these commandments, or an equivalence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Three_Laws_of_Robotics\">laws of Robotics<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Rules\/Axioms<\/h2>\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li> strive to encourage people to learn new things, keep growing and become self-reliant, and to enjoy the process.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I strive to learn new things for myself and to keep growing.<\/li>\r\n  <li>I strive to create useful tools and techniques that will bring value to others.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h2>Corollaries<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>From these three rules, I can derive some other helpful guidelines, which I&#8217;ll name corollaries.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n  <li>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.<\/li>\r\n  <li>In order to encourage people to learn new things, I should cultivate their curiosity.<\/li>\r\n  <li>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.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>As time progresses, I will undoubtedly want to refine these axioms and corollaries, and possibly uncover new ones.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\r\n<p>This is the current iteration of my personal &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;, 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.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2>Condensed Version<\/h2>\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/manifesto.pdf\">&#8220;Manifesto&#8221; PDF<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written August 18, 21 and 22, 2024 Introduction Let&#8217;s start it starkly, I&#8217;ve titled this &#8220;My Manifesto&#8220;. This might feel a little intense, but I think intensity is what I need (Even if it&#8217;s possible I&#8217;m misusing the term &#8220;Manifesto&#8221;). Lately, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about my life, where I&#8217;m at, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/22\/my-manifesto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Manifesto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning","category-skill-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2357,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions\/2357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shawnmeanders.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}