Quick primer on myself, my personality, and how to work with me (working patterns and communication preferences). If you have something similar, I’d love to read as well!

Personality Profiles

I think personality tests are more reflective of how someone wants to be perceived rather than how they actually act. But I do think they’re useful and it’s fun to share ☺️

  • Ennegream: Type 5 - Investigator (Curious, Independent, Detached)
  • Myers-Briggs (MBTI): ENTJ (Extroverted INtuition Thinking Judging)
  • Love Lanuages
    • Likes: Quality Time > Touch > Words of Affirmation
    • Dislikes: Acts of Service < Gifts
  • You can see more on my Dimensional.

Values

  • Open Mindedness: I make decisions with conviction but I’m always open minded to new ideas or data that suggests a better way. If I receive solid reasoning or data, I’ll change course quickly.
  • “Yes, and…”: I love this improv principle for pushing me to keep an open ear to ideas from other, assuming the best intent, and trying to constructively build on top.
  • Curiosity and Growth Mindset: I enjoy learning, being exposed to a wide spectrum of disciplines, and I’m in the process of figuring out where I want to get extremely deep in.
  • Action and Resourcefulness: I want to learn most from experimenting proactively instead of debating concepts into oblivion. If it doesn’t work, be resourceful and figure out how to improve.
  • Sweat the Details: Opendoor’s BPS for breakfast principle pushed us to uncover savings from every inch of a line item and I’m inspired to sweat the details in my life as well.
  • Obligation to Dissent: If you disagree with something, you should be obligated to speak your mind, regardless of source or hierarchy, if you think it’ll help.
  • Disagree and Commit: Somewhat of a counter-pair with obligation to dissent. There’s a time for deciding and a time for action. Once the decision is made, I’ll try my best to make it work regardless of whether I agreed beforehand.
  • Deep and Authentic Friendships: The best part of all my work experiences were friends gained along the way. I want to be empathetic, authentic, and build genuine friendships.

Things I spike on

  • Working with data. I love SQL, building dashboards, hacking spreadsheets.
  • Structuring ambiguity. I’ve had to assemble order from chaos in a lot of startups. It’s also fun turning experiments into systems and making things repeatable through playbooks.
  • Systems thinking. I like figuring out the system equation for whatever I’m working on, building measurable framework for it, then being thoughtful about how each lever or input affects components around it.
  • Bias for action over theory. I hate arguing for long about theories and find a lot more joy in launching, getting empirical proof on whether something works, learning, and doing it again.
  • Ownership. I like trying new things and taking on new responsibilities. I’ve excelled as a generalist thus far, owning many things, and trying to do what’s best for the team.

Things I’m working on improving

  • Sales. I’m super comfortable working on product, operations, and analytics but relatively new at sales. My top goal this year is becoming top 1% at sales, marketing, and social.
  • Consistently operating long-term. When I’m in the thick of a project, I can get bogged down by day-to-day fires and not allocate enough space and time to think long-term.

Communication

  • I’ve killed push notifications on email, Slack, and Discord but do allocate time to review daily. I’ll only respond if you ask me something directly or I have a question. If you don’t get a response in 12 hours but think I owe you a response, just ping me again.
  • I like working on my own schedule, that means I might ping you at random times. That does not mean I expect a response. Unless explicit, just respond the next day.
  • I try my best to batch work as much as possible, so my schedule is structured around that. I block time in the morning and after dinner for individual work. Otherwise I try to have all meetings back to back continuously if possible.
  • Comments are easy. Answers are expensive. If I comment on your doc, I’m just trying to provide a helpful input but please don’t feel obligated to answer me.
  • If it can be a Loom, please send me a Loom instead of a live meeting.
  • I love FYI updates - any useful tidbits about things you’re working on, customer anecdotes, interesting or useful articles or data. I don’t get overwhelmed with comms if I’m not obligated to respond to everything so share away!

I do my best work when

  • I’m more intrinsically driven when I think the projects I’m working on are impactful for the org and definitively are beneficial for the world. It’s even more meaningful if I feel we’re launching things quickly and effectively. Walk me through the why.
  • Possibly my biggest goal as an operator and leader is to encourage teammates to be themselves. As long as you’re not hurting others or impacting your work, I want to support you showing up as you.
  • I like getting docs ahead of time so I can think about things on my own and not have to live process everything.
  • I hate having to read between the lines and always prefer not make others do that either. I’m a believer that more transparent and plugged-in teams execute more effectively and happily.
  • I want visibility into how I’m doing, what’s going well or not well, and ensuring I have actionable steps to get to the next level. I love receiving feedback, especially when it’s honest and constructive. Tell me what I need to know, not what you think I want to hear.

What drains me

  • I don’t mind being micro-managed if the asks I’m receiving are logically sound or grounded in solid user research + data since I know I’m learning. I get drained when my teams get asked to work on things impetuously without data or the context on why.
  • If something is heading off the rails, tell me before the crash. Failure is great if you learn something valuable from it. Surprises that impact others are not.
  • The feeling or actual presence of office politics over merit in decision making.