Evergreen list of manifestos and similar writings

I will continue to add to this list. If there is demand, I'll clean up my notes and add commentary to each item.

Author

Nick Madrid
July 02, 2024

  1. https://www.rostra.co

  2. https://www.asylum.vc

  3. https://slow.co/letter

  4. https://github.com/Bloomberg-Beta/Manual/blob/main/1%20-%20Manual.md (in my top 3, love this, much more than a manifesto though)

  5. https://about.google/philosophy

  6. https://app.foster.co/manifesto

  7. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

  8. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto

  9. https://breadandpuppet.org/cheap-art/why-cheap-art-manifesto

  10. https://www.startupmanifesto.eu

  11. https://openai.com/charter

  12. https://www.holstee.com/pages/manifesto

  13. https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto

  14. https://situational-awareness.ai/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/situationalawareness.pdf

  15. https://buffer.com/about (there is enough here about being an ‘open company’ that it made my research list)

  16. https://about.nike.com/en/impact

  17. https://www.anthropic.com/company

  18. https://gevaperry.typepad.com/Open%20Cloud%20Manifesto%20v1.0.9.pdf

  19. https://designmanifestos.org/mitch-goldstein-a-design-education-manifesto

  20. https://cdn.porchlightbooks.com/assets/ChangeThis/manifesto/80.03.MicropreneurManifesto/pdf/80.03.MicropreneurManifesto.pdf

  21. https://www.watertowerventures.com/manifesto (more like guiding principles, really, not a true manifesto IMO)

  22. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/radical-readiness-manifesto-john-morley-ceidc

  23. https://www.kimmok.com/#/the-manifesto-manifesto

  24. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/umberto-eco-how-to-write-a-thesis

  25. https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto

  26. https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/download/5300/2201/7175

  27. https://atulgawande.com/book/the-checklist-manifesto

  28. https://info.quantive.com/hubfs/Quantive_Guides/The_Modern_Operating_Model_Manifesto.pdf

  29. https://agilemanifesto.org

  30. https://books.google.com/books/about/Financial_Advice_and_Investment_Decision.html?id=Wd3iAAAAQBAJ (manifesto for change)

  31. https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2 (Slowcore manifesto)

  32. You Need a Manifesto: How to Craft Your Convictions and Put Them to Work (Stanford d.school Library)

  33. https://amandasueazadian.substack.com/p/coming-soon

  34. Luigi Mangione’s manifesto (published by Ken Klippenstein)