Principles
Four
PBCA/CONDUCT
A few house rules for telling the story well.
This is a small, deliberately narrow community of people who shared an era. It works best when everyone treats it as a reunion among colleagues, not a courtroom or a comment section.
There is no long policy here — just four principles. Keep them in mind and the oral history we are building together will be richer, fairer, and more complete.
How
we behave here.
We are here to remember well, set the record straight, and reconnect as colleagues and friends — meeting again on the same side, whatever side we were on back then.
Four
principles.
01
Be polite
Keep it courteous. These are your peers — the people who built the same era you did. A little manners goes a long way in a room this small.
02
Be friendly & fair
Time heals wounds. In business, some people were more likeable than others — that is simply how it was. But if you do not have something nice to say about someone, treat them fairly by not saying anything about them at all.
03
Be curious
Be inquisitive. This is a rare opportunity to ask colleagues about the behind-the-scenes decisions and events that people were unable to make public at the time. Ask the questions you always wondered about.
04
Share generously
Share as much as you can remember. Do not worry about getting every detail perfect — someone else reading this oral history will almost certainly be able to fill in the gaps and jog your memory. Half a story is better than no story.
In
short.
That is the whole code: be polite, be fair, be curious, and share what you can. Do that, and the history we leave behind will be one everyone who lived it can be proud of.