[mplanchard]

I don’t think these kinds of documents are particularly useful unless they are to-the-point explanations of things about the person that significantly differ from the norm, which someone might actually have a shot at remembering in practice.

For example, “I love direct feedback. Please don’t sugar coat things with me.” or “I am sometimes very direct and it comes across as rude. That is never my intention, so please feel free to call me out on it when it happens.”

Even that though is less useful than the constant work of difficult, honest communication that is actually required to shape your interaction patterns with others. I worry that user manuals might be used to absolve oneself of that work.

This document is a nice piece describing the environment the author wants to work in, in my opinion, rather than being a user manual for the author. Maybe reframing it that way would engender a better response in readers.

All that said though, the response here is often verging into the downright cruel, and I am disgusted by a lot of it. Many folks are making sweeping proclamations about this person’s personality or character and/or directly attacking the author. I think there are things to critique here, but it’s hasty as hell to assume that this document gives you enough to judge an entire person, and a whole other thing to rip that person down with insults.