I am an extreme introvert with an excessive level of obsession. I like working and thinking and routinely spend 14 hours a day on either or both. I don’t like working with mediocre people or people who are not sincere about what they are working on. I once turned down a $125K investment offer because of this. I also dislike managing people. I have turned down job offers of up to quarter of a million dollars because of this. I was also a founding member at a YC startup that went up to a million dollars in monthly GMV but left because I had started pushing against every decision.

I don’t have a tech stack. I decide what technology to use based on the problem that needs to be solved. My speciality is finding the shortest path to solving a problem. For a project a Principal PM at Microsoft brought to me, I reduced the scope from 6 months to 1 month by identifying and removing unnecessary parts. The funny thing is I did this even when I was going to be paid based on the time I spend on it.

I start from a business problem and go through the product and engineering parts to solve it end-to-end. This saves me from communication overhead and lets me do in 2 weeks what teams of 5-6 people take 3 months. My time estimates for projects are so low that they often become a point of argument with new clients because they think that they are not doable.