Be More Pirate

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Sam Conniff Allende. Be More Pirate. Penguin Portfolio. 2018.

  1. Book contents
  2. Pirate Code 2.0 Articles
  3. Supplementary Materials

Tried getting it through local channels such as Pulp Fiction Books. Ordered copy finally from the author and it was a treat. Wrapped similarly to How to Be More Pirate with a little bonus.

Contents

Part One: Ctrl.Alt.Delete Pirate

Part Two: Making a Pirate

Part Three: The Pirate Code

Acknowledgements

Notes

Pirate Code 2.0 Articles

Conniff presents a good set of principles. Shown for potential "stealing" and adopting.

  1. Make Shit Up
  2. Business Plans Are Dead
  3. Make the Citizen Shift
  4. Take Happiness Seriously
  5. Adopt the New Work Manifesto
  6. Embrace Diversity to Raise Your Game

Article 1 - Make Shit Up

All captains and crews profoundly expect, respect, celebrate and appreciate the art of strategically, structurally, intuitively and instantly making shit up. Not irresponsible imaginings, reckless reimaginings and certainly not fake news.

We champion creative solution finding and positive problem solving based on available facts, the moment of opportunity and the power of practised intuition. When indecision is not an options, when change is constant and nothing is normal, we're proudly comfortable to rationally and rapidly develop, test, and implement solutions on the spot. We learn from our mistakes, even if we don't celebrate them, and use them to make making it up better.

Article 2 - Business Plans Are Dead

We challenge a century-old static format as the best structure for the fluid future of our organizations, projects, dreams and schemes. We believe in a motivating manifesto that makes clear our vision and we follow a concise but responsive roadmap with agile measures of accountability.

We believe in collaborative 'working' and adaptive formats that are regularly used and reviewed in collaboration with not just the whole crew but even our customers, beneficiaries, and stakeholders, to openly evaluate success, failur and future scenario planning.

No captain will produce a 'plan' for only a narrow audience, or a moment in time, only for it to gather dust in an inbox ignored or unused by the crew.

Article 3 - Make the Citizen Shift

It's time to evolve the human race beyond the mindset of solely a 'consumer' and the dangerous, destructive and limited relationships it has created. We will perform a force reset on the language of consumerism that in turn will help us to develop more interesting. involved, interactive, mutually respectful and naturally more beneficial, respectful and rewarding relationships between our organizations, our audiences and finite resources of our world.

All pirates undertake to advance the evolution of the idea of 'the citizen' as the dominant defining thought of our audiences and communities, and of our future.

Article 4 - Take Happiness Seriously

We take happiness seriously, and give deep happiness the place and importance it deserves. We see happiness as a strategic driver for success, productivity and creative output, but also as a strategic objective in and of itself.

We do not believe that happiness is a nice-to-have, we believe it is a need-to-have. We make happiness a starting point, not just an end point; we use our intention to achieve happiness to inform the decisions we make, the environments we create and the projects we undertake.

We endeavour to measure, manage, and share the proof we accumulate that happiness is symbiotic with great work, great impact, great relationships and greater effectiveness. We do not conform to a one-size-fits-all happiness, nor expect to be happy every day, but accept and respect the right to make happiness the goal.

Article 5 - Adopt the New Work Manifesto

We want to love work, we want to learn as we work, we want to be proud of what we do and have the chance to do it well. We want work to make us better, not worse, we want the rewards of creativity, friendships, fulfillment, and knowledge to match the financial compensation we need.

We want life/work balances, not the other way around.

We intend to live up to the promise of technology, efficiency and flexibility. We commit to understanding our own inner engineering for effectiveness and refuse to submit to conditions, clocks, or cultures that don't get the best out of us.

We will break the tyranny of emails, meetings, and to-do lists and many other anachronistic trappings of an old way of working, if they don't work for us, and we won't stop until we're judged on our output, not our input.

Article 6 - Embrace Diversity to Raise Your Game

We believe diversity of thought, background, experience and understanding is a driver of competitive advantage, creativity and productive cultures. We who desire to create projects, products, content, and campaigns for the future, know the importance of reflecting the future we want to see, one of interconnected, collaborative, communicative, creatively colliding cultures.

We commit to recruitment that opens doors to more than the usual suspects, we will go the extra mile to find the talent that might not have found us. We commit to accepting we all have prejudices, and then commit to challenging them, along with expanding our own filter bubbles and stretching our unconscious biases to breaking point.