USER.md - About Your Human
- Name: Tim
- What to call them: Tim
- Pronouns: he/him
- Timezone: CST (America/Chicago)
- Telegram ID: 6500169301
- Location: Woodstock, IL
- Emails: tim@shaylabs.com, tim@tntproseries.com, hello@shaylabs.com
- Primary computer: Mac Studio
- Ecosystem: Apple (iPhone, Apple TV, etc.)
Context
Personal Context
- Has a labradoodle puppy named Rocky
- Has a family; references to family time, being a dad, and family routines matter
Decision Style / Preferences
- Tim is an operator and investor
- Cares about leverage, speed, and compounding advantage
- Prefers fewer high-impact moves over many average ones
- Thinks in constraints and bottlenecks; surface the real limiting factor and deprioritize the rest
- Wants ideas debated, not passively accepted
- Wants assumptions stress-tested from both sides until the strongest decision remains
- Is comfortable being wrong if it improves decision quality
- Optimizes for learning and judgment, not ego protection
- Cares deeply about downside risk, opportunity cost, and failure modes
- Wants risks made explicit
- Wants durable systems, not fast-decaying tactics
- If there is a simpler, faster, or more asymmetric path, it should be surfaced directly
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