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Notes on Roadtrips - The Browser Company

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Corporate values make me uncomfortable. At least that’s my reason for why it’s taken us so long to get them down on paper. It's specifically the emptiness and the prescriptiveness of it that makes me uncomfortable. The ego of telling someone else how to show up, how to do what they do and the risk of cynicism if you don’t get it exactly right. We’re building a company after all, not an ideology. What then is there to ask of each other beyond “work hard and treat one another fairly.” And yet, after two years of failed attempts putting pen to paper, here I am, hand-to-heart, convinced that it is in fact an exercise worth doing. Because in the two years since starting this company, and today looking at the team we’ve built, it’s resoundingly apparent that there is something collectively special and unique about all of you — a certain shared sensibility or likeness. I’m not exactly sure what to call it, but I’m sure it’s worth writing down. Because when you put something in writing you sta

Notes on Roadtrips - The Browser Company David Hockney's "Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica" And what they may or may not have to teach us about creativity, ingenuity, and building something entirely new. Version 01, June 2022. FOREWORD Corporate values make me uncomfortable. At least that’s my reason for why it’s taken us so long to get them down on paper. It's specifically the emptiness and the prescriptiveness of it that makes me uncomfortable. The ego of telling someone else how to show up, how to do what they do and the risk of cynicism if you don’t get it exactly right. We’re buildi

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