Cubicle-dissenters and freedom-seekers, I present you with this manifesto on the liberation revolution.
This movement happening all around us is, quite literally, the story of mental bondage to freedom. People everywhere are finding liberation through ditching the work-template and living on their own terms.
If this movement interests you, we would like you to be a part of it.
You kick so much ass, it would be a shame to see that squandered by asphyxiation, due to fluorescent lighting and pointless committee meetings.
What you’ll find in this manifesto is 5,000 free words on the characteristics of this uprising. You’ll hear the reasons of others and why they’re committed to the freedom of working for themselves and reclaiming their time and their minds.
DOWNLOAD THE FREE MANIFESTO HERE.
———————————————The reason for this:
People have long been ditching the employee model of life, but rarely has there been a collective banding together of individuals to support each other in this movement. This manifesto is an attempt to create a coherent, articulate representation of the reason we are unsatisfied with the work-template and why we are seeking a new paradigm.
What’s under the hood:
- Why we’re tired of choking back vomit because we’re going another day doing a job we hate, with people we don’t connect with, working for someone we don’t respect.
- How we’re transforming our relationship with work, through breaking down social conventions and overly politicized nonsense.
- Why we think entrepreneurship is one of the highest forms of self-actualization and self-improvement.
- How we’re in this together.
- How to cultivate the “Free-man” (or free-woman) mindset and seven things you can do right now.
- The importance of getting to Game Over.
Are you totally down with this revolution? Is this something you’ve been waiting for?
Here’s how you can help:
- Spread the word. Send this manifesto to your friends, family, or co-worker that’s about to commit suicide (she needs to read this). Tweet about it, send it to your friends, print it out and post it on the telephone polls on your block.
- Declare your freedom. There is no better way can you help strengthen this revolution than by declaring your own sovereignty. By reclaiming your own freedom, you give others the courage to do the same.
What the hell is this all about man?
This manifesto is something I’ve been working on for the past two weeks as part of Project Mojave, my new lovechild.
I’m a member of the faculty there where my title is Director of Ass Kicking.
No I’m not joking (I couldn’t make this stuff up). It’s basically what I was born to do.
Over the course of the next few days, you’ll get a chance to see what this crazy revolution is all about and how you can become a member. There’s a really awesome video up right now called “The Freedom Business Blueprint,” which basically defines the qualities of a massive freedom-supporting business. I highly recommend you go check it out.
Lots more awesome, free stuff is coming, so I hope you sign up for the list so you can get updates.
Anyway, that’s about it. More details will be coming soon.
Please let me know what you think of the manifesto. I can’t wait to hear your feedback.
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Sounds good man, I know you’ve been working hard on this.
That intro video could really do some work “oh a car is going bye, 2 seconds” and a lot of the same stuff is repeated.
Besides that, it’s looking good.
Cheers,
Glen
Way to tear this up, man!
I am so excited to hear more about this venture. This is something I’ve been waiting for!
Just finished reading it. Very exciting!! Got me really pumped up and ready to tackle more goals.
Shared the link on twitter. Let me know if you need more help.
-Andrew
the link seems to be broken?
The link works for me.
What a unusual and interesting idea! I’ve been an working for myself for awhile and it’s great, but it does come with much more responsibility than employees are used to. When things work well, you can pat yourself on the back. When things work poorly, all you have is yourself to blame.
Good stuff Jonathan!
I’m linking your post and Manifesto to a “Non-conformism and love-oriented work resource round-up” I’m putting together for compiling the countless pieces of work being published in the blogosphere lately on these subjects… it seems like we are living a revolution indeed!
http://alanfurth.com/working-long-hours-1
Thanks for the inspiration man, keep up the great, ass-kicking work.
Cheers,
Alan
This is an awesome read.
I’m excited about meeting a lady with really hard ovaries now!
Cool stuff. Your writing is always entertainingly badass.
I’ll be sure to tell my friend about this. And if I get any more I’ll tell them too.
Great stuff, dude.
Way to kick ass! Looking forward to it.
This whole concept of being independent and setting up some kind of small internet business has been appealing to me more and more over the last year–all the more so for having experienced some really toxic emotional B.S. and other ridiculous game-playing and politics on the part of one or two individuals at work–so the manifesto really resonates with me. I would love to start up a small research consulting business that I could run from home (or anywhere in the world), working on a schedule that best fits my peak productive times, work style and temperament. I’m more than happy to put my time and energy into projects that support social equality/justice and sustainability or otherwise make some positive differences in the world. I just get stuck on figuring how to make that ideal my reality and where to even start the process…..
One small thing: On page 21 of the manifesto, where I assume you were referring to the grind of cubicle hell, did you perhaps mean “soul-wrenching”, rather than “soul-quenching”? Maybe soul “squelching”? Not to nitpick–it’s just that my gift is noticing the details, as well as well as recognizing patterns in the details or pieces of the puzzle.
Hey Jonathan,
Well written manifesto! Got me really excited about going ahead with those goals.
I would like an introduction to who the people behind the project actually are! Looking forward to hearing more about this.
Can I just mention that lately the word FREE has been popping up in your posts way to much? Isn’t a manifesto free by definition? The fact that you mention twice that it actually is makes me feel there are some hidden costs. Whenever I read FREE online anywhere my spider senses start tingling. I would say: please use that word a little bit less, because it’s so obvious that after the free stuff comes something that costs money. (Which is fine by the way, that’s what it’s all about right?)
thanks for the link its working now, nice post :)
A very interesting manifesto I must say but there is one small detail that just keeps bothering me. How do you get people to actually stop reading everything online and gathering more knowledge (without every applying it) and get them to start DOING what they know?
After all, even through the phone or any other medium you can’t physically kick someone in the head for not acting on what they know (and figure things out along the way).
Goals, targets, shoulds, coulds, ifs… The 4HWW already planted the seeds but just looking around here there is nobody quitting their job because of side incomes. Come to think of it, nobody in my social circle has even noticed the shift/revolution that you talk about. (I doubt if they have read the book.) They’re all stuck in the 9-5 till 65. More chances for me? Perhaps… Dreaming and fantasizing about not having to work 1/3 of my life? Perhaps…
If this project really does manage to get people to stop following and actually take control of their own future and start building a freedom business that will earn them their freedom I’ll be amazed, but also excited and I’ll dive in head first in this revolution. Not to follow, but to lead.
We who want to break free are a tiny minority out there. Most people don’t even know this is possible or don’t have what it takes to actually follow through. It’s scary to go against the mainstream for them, for must of us…
If this project does what it promises and get’s me the (financial) freedom I want I’ll come over and give you a handshake and buy you a cup of coffee if you take me up on that invitation. (The Netherlands to Los Angeles….)
Hi Jonathan
I got this by a friend who, like me, works for herself. I am not a cynical, but I do have a few thougths on it:
1. Surely this does not apply to every man/woman? What about people who have absolutely no desire to have their own business, to work for themselves?
2. I have been doing it for nearly a decade, and trust me, I work so much and so hard that I sometimes dream of a 9-5pm, Mon-Fri job. Overwork and Overworry being a freelancer/business owner can kill your creativity and fill you with anxiety.
3. If all of us decided to go for it, who would be, to bring it closer to home, be managing this ISP/webmaster/provider who allows you to post your blog/pages/stuff and me to read them? To go further, who would sit there and manage the hospitals/health system that we might DESPERATELY need one day? And so on.
Having said that, way to go, congratulations on chasing your dreams.
All the best
A
I really enjoyed reading your manifesto Jonathan. It cut right to the chase. This made it so much more meaningful, because it accurately represents what you are proposing. You will be a great Director of Ass Kicking!
holy crap, you are in my head! will download manifesto when i get home from my cubicle slave work, i mean, job.
Sweet Mother of Pearl, I must be a renegade too!
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you for putting this into words. I am RIGHT THERE. Right at the point where my affair with creativity is threatening the stability of my day job. I just did my first freelance photo shoot last weekend and it was the single most exciting 12 hours of my life. I’m addicted now and it’s only a matter of time before I walk away from this job and live my own life. I can’t believe the coincidence that I found this today! I’m all in!
Let’s do it.
This is what it’s all about right here–doing what you love. That’s why we founded Under30CEO.com we want to tell people, life isn’t over after college. Even though those are supposed to be the best 4 years of your life, WTF, it’s not all downhill after that…. as long as you are doing what you love and are on a mission.
Let me know how I can help.
This book was ALL the things I wanted to say, but couldn’t find the words to say it. AMAZING and NECESSARY.
*Jared
The manifesto was really good. Some of the things I already knew, but it never gets old hearing about them again. As a college student, I’m trying to start a business through blogging so this definitely helps.
Thanks a lot. Keep your blog running.
What a coincidence! I just put up my own worklife freedom ‘manifesto’ and then I found out about this. I have focused on ‘Principles of Worklife Freedom’ which are tenets like ‘Freedom of Residency’ and ‘Freedom of Mobility’ – which clearly spell out what we should be demanding. This manifesto is a whole different animal though – it is more about motivation and self-liberation and the how and why. It’s designed and written to make people sit up and take action – and that’s why it’s great. Good luck and long live the revolution.
I read it, I loved it !