IT GIRL MANIFESTO
1. The freedoms of oneself and others should be respected, including the freedom to offend and to do what one wills with their body.
2. One should strive to act with compassion and empathy, in accordance with reason.
3. Beliefs should conform to one's best scientific understanding of the world.
4. One ought to avoid suppressing their convictions, rather, seek the most efficient and least-harming way to cope with them.
5. The world and all its creatures including oneself will always be in a state of wabi-sabi ("imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete"). Learn to appreciate and accept this.
6. One should always use and develop their personal attributes to their advantage, a practice which requires close study of the self.
7. Live a beautiful life; this includes happiness, authenticity to oneself, a living application of design theory, as well as health in social and personal spheres.
8. Indulge oneself within reason. Be cognizant that one exists through time, and so never put the future self or their opportunities at risk if it is avoidable or does not have a worthy tradeoff.
9. A breadth of wisdom is extremely beneficial to supporting other values. To fully realize all the values, one should expand their knowledge in relevant domains. Read, feel, listen, sense, take criticism, observe; create a multimedia mental library of experiences and emotions.
10. Be a person of high-value. This is typically supported by ambition, cunning, tact, leadership and resourcefulness.
11. Curate an environment that lends itself to success and execute in parallel. Utilize all resources within reason.
12. Hurt is inevitable, choose to grow from it.
















