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I'll write more about this in my next post, but we started by going on an engineering retreat and came up with a pretty massive document. The hardest part was distilling all the text down to a point that was easily consumable. I actually feel that the amount of text is just about right.

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I agree and think you did an excellent job here. Distilling down such critical information shows how much time and thought you put into it.

It's easy to ramble on for 100 pages, but capturing the essence of your values in a few slides with a couple of tidy examples each is really hard.

sorry, but... really? these are bullet points. I could come up with these points in literally 10 minutes. They aren't THAT original or revolutionary. What matter are the details; the push come to shove stuff.

Maybe this is good for a TL;DR, but if you don't spell out the details you leave room for ambiguity. Details help everyone think the same and gives them all the same reference points. They all have examples they can pull from already built in, so they are more likely to make the preferred decision.

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