How to work with me
Updated June 5, 2024
This is a document of my guiding principles, how I work as a human, and what I value in others. Think of it as a starting point of how we should connect to each other. In the end, I hope this allows us to work in a better way.
Do not force yourself to act as I want, I am an adaptive person so we can figure things out together to find our best workflow.
This is a living document, incomplete and imperfect. I will update it regularly and would appreciate your feedback.
I like to...
- Have a deep understanding — I need to learn about the system, how things work out, what influences it, how it is built, everything even if it does not correlate with our work. I will appreciate if you have a doc or deck to show me about things I should know before we start jumping to the next process. I want to be like I am the owner.
- Work in asynchronous — I do not really like 30 min meeting that could have done in just sending a Google Docs meeting, that is why most of the times I prefer to work on async style.
- Have fun — let's play some music while waiting others in a meeting room, or share special things we recently bought every first day of the week. Do not make work like a hell.
- Think in first-principle — The way I solve things is by visualizing dots in my mind and connecting objects to objects, I like to see things in a very simple form/the root principles/the foundational concept.
- Be aligned and clarified —Who's in charge of this project? Whom should I ask questions? What we're gonna do next? I want to make sure that every people that involve know what, why, and how we're gonna figure things out.
I expect you to...
- Prove me wrong — Sometimes I’m a bit idealist over things, I often too proud of my acts and see them as the most right ways of doing things, so argue with me, prove me wrong, show me what the best way of this design decision, show me whether I lack of decision of putting the strategy that way. I like when you’re being to the point. Chill, I never take things personally and instead being open for everything.
- Respect promises — If we scheduled things out, be on time, if you say you are gonna be doing A, do A. Don’t make me lost trust and interest. I pay attention to the details to the things you might think mediocre, for me it’s a point of credibility.
- Overcommunicate — We can’t work if you don’t really know what I’m currently progressing over our work, that’s why we need to be transparent to each other, send me the things I need and worth to know even if they don’t directly influence our work, you never know what it might result in.
- Be proactive — Don't leave me hanging in the discussion alone, don't just say what you want, let's have a discussion about it, maybe we find something better. In the other hand, I appreciate if you could provide a documentation over the meeting we have, my notes might be different with yours and I'm excited to have a sharing.
How I use my time
I always tried to be wise about it, I only reply to emails at night, and I did not respond to you when it is not the time, it is great if we could set up working hours when we should be non-stop chatting if it is async or having a meeting if it is sync.