🥸 Personal User Manual

Last updated May 30, 2022

🙋‍♂️ Hello there. Nice to have you here reading this manual on how to deal with me. The aim is to provide a little sneak peek into my crazy head and help you understand how I would be as a co-worker.

• I get very easily distracted, so I try to not hear conversation when working
• I aspire for a clean desk, but it is seldom so
• I like to have one Mate Mate a day before 2 pm

• I will be available between 10am to 4pm always. Some days I like to start working at 7 am and others I’m content with starting at 10 am.
• I like blocking times to do focussed work so keep an eye out on that calendar when you book a meeting with me.

• I’m a big fan of async communication.
• When not possible to have async communication, I like having video calls with the camera switched ON
• Please try to schedule meetings rather than having them ad-hoc

• I like to the point feedback. Please don’t sugarcoat it. I get confused by this
• I would appreciate if you include a specific example

• I like having time to research something before forming an opinion about it
• I love having idea sessions but atleast I should know what we will discuss
• I only want to have discussions in good faith. If I sense a discussion is only happening to soothe someone’s ego, I will withdraw

• Sometimes I focus too much on the meta-work instead of the actual work
• I hate using will power. I’ll take habits over will power any day
• Self-confidence.

• Pair/mob programming
• Snowboarding to an extent
• My family :)

I ask questions just to clarify. It sometimes seems like I’m trying to undermine the idea ro trying to give you a hard time. But I’m just trying to assess the situation. So, saying “I don’t know” is a perfectly valid response to my questions.

I will believe in something for a long time until I get a good argument against it. If I get the argument, I will instantly switch my opinion. This can be jarring.

I found this template very nice and have used it for v1.