[melaniecrissey]

I've watched core values get rewritten at multiple companies. Usually happens when new leadership comes in, there's some kind of culture clash and failed change management, managers can't get people to behave how they want so they go deep into a rewrite of the cultural tenets to shake out longtime employees and develop new mantras to enforce. New core values set almost always ends up being a word salad that's less precise and meaningful than the original list.

If you look at OpenAI's original list, they were all adjectives to describe how the team operates. Nice and clean. Consistent.

The new list is a vague, unfocused mish-mash of concepts ("Team spirit"), adjective pairs ("Intense AND scrappy"), and phrases ("Make something people love"). Some of these things should have been initiatives or objectives for the quarter instead of core values for the whole org.