Please find below a little disclaimer on my work style and personality. It tries to summarise the things that I've in the past noticed can cause some communication issues, especially online.
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I was born and raised in the Netherlands, the culture here is known to be direct to the point of bluntness and/or rudeness. Imagine a blend of Russian/Israeli straightforwardness, Scandinavian open mindedness and southern European lack of filter.
Please know that I'm excited to work with you and if something I say/write sounds blunt/rude/unhappy there is a 90% chance that was not my intention. Please feel free to communicate openly with me, say what you think and assume I appreciate honesty over artificial niceness.
As a programmer/biologist I'm used to thinking in very structured ways, so I'll probably communicate more through bullet points than paragraphs. I don't expect you to fully conform to that but would appreciate it if you could (in communicating) structure your thoughts as clearly and concisely as possible.
I work like a maker, not a manager. I dedicate big blocks of time to do deep work. In practice this means I am less available than most for meetings and tend to respond to emails later than most. I'm also exceptionally against spontaneous calls and prefer to know about them a day in advance.
In the MBTI spectrum I'm an ENTJ-A (with the caveat that I’m an introvert by nature). In summary I like efficiency, energy and strategy but can sometimes be stubborn and ruthless. I try to use my strengths and minimise the impact of my weaknesses, but please feel free to point it out to me if I'm being impatient or unreasonable as I will not hold it against you (actually I appreciate it since you are helping me recalibrate).
I have self-imposed limits on the assignments I work on and the way I work on them. If your request doesn't fall in them, it's not that I think you are wrong, but that I'm not the right person to do the job.
I consider notifications a distraction and consequently disabled all of them, unless I am expecting a message from you it is hard to get a hold of me urgently. If you need on-demand access to my attention let me know so we can establish a protocol that works for us.