Founder productivitytactic

Personal traits / psyche file

Agents give generic best-practice advice because they don't know how you operate. Feed your psyche file; partnership and hiring decisions improve.

TierBMedium — Solid coverage with concrete examples
EffortS · Days
Forfounder · executive · anyone preparing for high-stakes negotiations

What

A private folder containing your CV, personality-test results (Hogan / Big Five / Enneagram), year-end retrospective, therapy / coaching notes, education history. When entering a partnership negotiation, fundraising call, or new hire onboarding, the agent reads this file and suggests collaboration strategies tuned to how you actually operate — "you decay focus in long meetings; suggest ending at 45 min" or "you tend to over-commit on day-of; sleep on this offer."

Why it matters

Founders who use this report "much higher quality" partnership outcomes. The pattern is small but compounds: agents that know your operating constraints make better recommendations than generic "best practice" outputs. The file is also the durable artifact when entering new contexts — therapy notes get out of your head and into a place the next decision can reference.

End-to-end

  1. Create personal/me/ in your vault with a high-security flag (excluded from team sync, encrypted at rest if possible).
  2. Drop in source material: CV, any psychometric reports, your last year-end retrospective. If you don't have one, run the year-review playbook (#220 Tier A).
  3. Have the agent summarize the corpus into a one-page operating profile — energies, drains, decision biases, communication style.
  4. Reference the profile from your CLAUDE.md as context for partnership / negotiation / hiring prompts.
  5. Update annually as part of your year-end review.

Gotchas

  • Privacy posture matters: this folder must never sync to team-shared infra. Set the sync exclusion before adding the first file.

Tools

  • A secure folder in your vault
  • Optional psychometric tests
  • Existing year-end retrospective or the discipline to write one