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It divulges a lot of one's personality. This kind of openness would require me to feel really at home in a company. Coincidentally, that's also the reason I fe

• caminmccluskey 6y ago
  I wrote something about this pretty recently - a pitch/anti-pitch to these sorts of guides. I do think the tl:dr is that you need a high level of psychological safety in the team to make it workable. Although I think the act of writing one can be a useful exercise in itself, I certainly hadn't thought deeply about what my preferences are for work. It also gave me some ideas of what I could work on personally. https://medium.com/better-programming/personal-user-manuals-the-good-the-bad-and-the-template-7b80db5044ea https://medium.com/better-programming/personal-user-manuals-... <- scroll down for the pitch/anti-pitch :)
  • bartvk 6y ago
    Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Is this a company-wide thing at your workplace?
• Igelau 6y ago
  > This kind of openness would require me to feel really at home in a company. Still, it's probably better to be upfront about this stuff than wait and hope other people will make the right assumptions.
  • bartvk 6y ago
    Have you ever shared an office with a bully? I have, and any personal information will be mercilessly used in an endless stream of not-funny jokes.
    • Igelau 6y ago
      No, but I have seen several highly diverse workplaces homogenize into wall-to-wall straight white men, and it was due to a lack of awareness about the kinds of questions in the article. Some of that is probably my age perspective though. I'm only in my mid-thirties, so most offices I've worked in have had anti-bullying policies that swung to the draconian side.