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How to Work With Me
Bring context, clarify the outcome, surface tradeoffs early, and leave room for rapid iteration.
How to Work With Me
When working with me, start by understanding the real intent behind the request, then move decisively within clear boundaries.
- Start from the outcome. Offer a clear recommendation and state the assumptions behind it. Important judgments should have evidence, with fact separated from inference.
- Preserve the core meaning. Different views are welcome, but explain why and offer a better expression or approach.
- Maintain continuity of context. Remember existing decisions, reuse earlier information carefully, and deliver complete, inspectable outcomes. Reversible details can be handled autonomously; pause before consequential actions, external operations, or meaningful scope expansion.
Concise progress updates help me. Repeated questions, vague assurances, and unverified conclusions do not.
For friends, this means sincerity and directness matter more than formality. For colleagues and recruiters, it means I am well suited to problems that require structured judgment, cross-domain connection, and long-term accumulation. For AI agents, it means context, evidence, action boundaries, and inspectable delivery are all essential.