My Read.ME - a user manual for working with me

| At work and in life, I value… | 1. enjoying every moment 2. but best to focus that joy on improving the lives of people and the next generations. | | --- | --- | | What I most appreciate in teammates is… | ambition, taking risks, energy, resourcefulness, care for the details, clarity, and critical thinking skills. | | I can help with… | anything (not true in practice, but it’s how I’m wired to enjoy life: curiosity) | | I want help with… | nothing (not true in practice, but it’s how I’m wired to enjoy life: autonomy) | | You’ll know I’m stressed when… | I didn’t sleep enough. | | Team members can support me by… | applying the Boy Scout Rule. I do this a lot which put me off the rails. Make it so that I don’t get off track. |

Moving Motivators

1. 🎯 Goal: My purpose in life is reflected in the work that I do.
2. 🧠 Curiosity: I have plenty of things to investigate and to think about
3. 🤸‍♂️ Freedom: I am independent of others with my work and my responsibilities.
4. 🎓 Mastery: My work challenges my competence but it is still within my abilities.
5. 📏 Order: There are enough rules and policies for a stable environment.
6. 💪 Power: There’s enough room for me to influence what happens around me.
7. 👥 Relatedness: I have good social contact with the people in my work.
8. 💟 Acceptance: The people around me approve of what I do and who I am.
9. 🏆 Status: My position is good, and recognized by the people who work with me.
10. 🛡️ Honor: I feel proud that my personal values are reflected in how I work.

The best way(s) to communicate with me

| My communication style: | I avoid emotions to protect my sensibility to them I’m as direct as possible I’m most effective at writing I’m never sarcastic | | --- | --- | | Default channel: | In context (GitHub, Notion, etc), otherwise Email. I don’t like Slack much, I find it hard to keep track of things and it break focus. | | Constructive feedback: | In any format, if you find an action that led to a positive or negative outcome, share it. | | Positive feedback: | I love knowing what works and what doesn’t work, it’s useful information. I don’t really care about receiving gratitude or recognition, I take most joy in trusting that the problem is solved. | | No-no’s / pet peeves: | Repetition of the same information. No links that I can follow to find the root information (working on the open-source taught me the value of not trusting what people say, trust in the root data) |

Leadership & management

| What I need in a people leader… | is to give me a problem, the resources to address it, and let me figure things out. The bigger the problem is, the better.

Then explain to me why the problem is more important to focus on than the others.

I take the most joy in envisioning what a great future looks like, and especially in each step that moves us closer to living that future. Trusting that after each step of the work we ship, the next instances of the problems will be gone is incredibly rewarding for me. | | --- | --- | | What I offer/my style as a people leader… | - I focus on flying upwind: seek opportunities in each instant.

• I like to solve problems for others. So if you share with me something that blocks, you, I will default to try to resolve it.
• I tend to have high expectations, I can be hard to work with. Now, we solve a hard problem, it shouldn’t be easy. |

My life outside of work