Mission Protocol

&gt; Mission focus is the operational principle that your project’s social responsibility is the effective and focused execution of its mission. ...<p>This brings to mind what Snowden revealed to the world. Few inside the CIA new about domestic warrantless surveillance.<p>Had Snowden followed the &quot;Mission Protocol,&quot; we might still not be aware of the laws being broken routinely in the name of security.<p>Following the Mission Protocol seems like a thinly-disguised attempt to get workers to subject themselves to someone else&#x27;s agenda.<p>I mean, isn&#x27;t this just a fancy way of saying that the ends justify the means? <i>Every</i> mission is political in one way or another.

I suspect this is an anti-fragile position, i.e. exposed to varying stressors on a company&#x27;s purpose, companies that follow this principle will simply sharpen their purpose and objectives and get better at it.<p>It&#x27;ll be interesting to see if this is a competitive advantage. Personally, I think it is. I would happily accept a PR from a guy who wants to kill me. He can&#x27;t kill me or hurt me in a PR.<p>Personally, I&#x27;d also prefer to (metaphorically) drive right off the cliff at full pace with a bunch of people who also think it&#x27;s the right way than go nowhere because none of us agree on where to go.

&gt; But these conversations often lose sight of the main way our projects produce social good: through good work on our mission.<p>At the risk of being maybe a little plaintive: what happens when that mission is <i>bad</i>? It&#x27;s not clear to this (government-funded) researcher that good (meaning quality) work, even when it&#x27;s always open-sourced, translates to a good (meaning ethical) mission.

How about just being honest and saying that the main purpose of the company is to make a profit and let&#x27;s cut the shit with the superficial social and political stances.<p>It would be great if companies could work towards something greater but the incentives are not aligned with how the system is currently built.

&gt; Mission focus produces social good: Working in a single direction on a strong, well-considered mission is the best way to make a socially positive impact.<p>Facebook seems like the obvious counter example to this.<p>The whole statement seems to be: &quot;Trust the business, we know it&#x27;s going to be good. Ignore the larger societal issues we might be causing.&quot;

&gt; First, a mission statement to define and guide the project, and second, a contact email to ensure violations can be reported.<p>Having been an employee where partisan politics are brought up in the workplace, I applaud that it seeks to provide actual teeth.

Politics have been destroying Silicon Valley. This restores my faith in tech. I believe that the spirit of innovation and diversity of thought still has a chance to prevail if people embrace the philosophy behind Mission Protocol. If employees want to be activists, then they should either pursue activism in their free-time, change their career to further the cause full-time, or create a company with a mission that furthers their agenda. There&#x27;s no judgement. However, hijacking the mission of large, powerful companies to serve near-sighted political agendas is socially destructive and morally reprehensible.

It’s fun to imagine that this is something written by Raytheon or Lockheed Martin

A code of conduct template developed by someone who realllly wants to remain anonymous. This inspires trust.

Oh boy, I sure hope this catches on so I can easily avoid working with companies that think like this.

So what are the KPI&#x27;s for a mission focused enterprise?<p>And how does this protocol help reach them.

There does not seem to be any text to say this is Coinbase-inspired. The FAQ does refer to Tesla&#x27;s and Coinbase&#x27;s corporate mission statements, but there is no claim or indication that this code of conduct is inspired by either.<p>Perhaps that part is commentary added by the submitter?

This is 100% correct. It&#x27;s disappointing that this is needed, but in an age where many people are out of touch with principles of social collaboration, sometimes the obvious needs to be spelled out.

Good is purely subjective. The project by definition targets what the creators thought were good?