User manual of me
The user manual of me is a short, readable guide to how you prefer to work, built from your psymet profile and shared with the colleagues on your team.
Your "user manual of me" is a short guide to how you like to work, written from your profile, that colleagues on your team can read. It helps new colleagues understand you quickly without a long conversation.
What it contains
It summarises your working preferences in plain language: how you like to communicate, make decisions and handle pressure, based on your profile.
Sam Okonkwo
Senior Engineer
Conditions I like to work in
Long uninterrupted blocks. I do my best thinking with a problem written down in front of me, not out loud in a room. If it can be a document, please make it a document.
The times/hours I like to work
Early — I'm sharpest before 11am and I guard that window hard. Afternoons are for meetings and code review. I don't read messages after about 6pm and I'd rather you didn't expect me to.
The best ways to communicate with me
Written, async, with the reasoning attached. A message that says 'can we chat?' with no context will ruin the next hour for me. If it's genuinely urgent, call — I won't mind.
The ways I like to receive feedback
Direct and specific, in private, in writing if you can manage it. Tell me what's wrong before you tell me what's good about it; I'll discount the whole thing if I think you're softening. Don't raise it for the first time in a group.
Things I need
The why before the what. If I understand what we're actually trying to achieve I'll find a better route than the one you were going to hand me. If I don't, I'll argue about the route instead, which wastes everyone's time.
Things I struggle with
Decisions being reopened. If we agreed something three weeks ago and it's back on the agenda with no new information, I lose patience and it shows on my face before I've decided whether to say anything.
Things I love
Hard, well-defined problems that nobody has solved yet, and working with people who'll tell me I'm wrong. Being trusted with something end-to-end rather than being handed a slice of it.
Other things to know about me
I go quiet in large meetings. It usually means I'm thinking, occasionally it means I disagree and haven't worked out how to say it yet. Asking me directly is fine and I'd rather you did.
Who can read it
Colleagues on your team can read your user manual. See Privacy and data for who sees what.
Using it well
Treat a colleague's manual as a conversation starter. Ask them whether it rings true, and share your own.
How profiles are formed and refined
Your psymet profile starts from your questionnaire answers and can be refined through an AI profile chat, so it reflects how you actually prefer to work.
Reading the team map
The psymet team map shows your team's working preferences at a glance, with a quadrant map of members and dimension strips for each of the four dimensions.