manifesto craft

notes on writing manifestos that light both yours and readers’ hearts on fire

Any manifesto worth reading demands the impossible.

Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need

A startup is a story The story is useful because it brings people to work towards something together The story is limiting because employees let it dictate what they can and cannot do The story isn't real - a startup is just people and what they choose to do ever... See more

Erez Druk x.com

“A people or a class which is cut off from its own past is far less free to choose and to act as a people or a class than one that has been able to situate itself in history.” - John Berger

Tom Critchlow • Ways of Seeing

Standing for something isn’t just about writing it down. It’s about believing it and living it.

David Heinemeier Hansson • Rework

Criminalsimpsons • Tweet

this is part of why i think many startups could benefit from a bold manifesto. helps break free from race to the bottom commodification, and re-position themselves in a more premium way.

Who doesn’t love a good manifesto? A manifesto is a form of magic. You take mere words, mere gushes of air, mere lines and curves, mere tokens, and you alchemize them into something tangible. Manifest, manifold, manumission—from the Latin manus, meaning hand. Hands point and hold. Hands waive. According to Derrida, we cannot use our hands and look ... See more

Zohar Atkins • Lightning: A Manifesto

In 1909 the Futurists refused reverence and predicted, even begged for their overthrow by the next generation: “Younger and stronger men will throw us in the wastebasket like useless manuscripts,” they cried. “We want it to happen!” Like all good manifestos, they built in their own obsolescence, clearing the way for the next vision of the future.

Julian Hanna • The 10 Things All Great Manifestos Need

"Even if my expectations are unreasonable I would prefer to keep them"

Simon Sarris • Tweet

Be dangerous, its careful out there