I like working at a company that lets me be myself. Well, I suppose the company doesn’t care one way or another, but the people I work with let me just kind of run with my personality. At this point in life, I found it takes too much effort to not be who you are.
This is why I really like it when companies like Zappos list one of their main core values as “Create fun and a little weirdness.” A little weirdness brightens up most days, and doesn’t have to conflict with doing good work.
About two years ago (oh hey look, a time stamp: two and half years ago), I read a blog post on A VC called “Minimum Viable Personality.” The main point is that when building a product, the first thing to ensure is that the product works, the second is to ensure the product is interesting. I work in customer loyalty, so I specifically appreciate the points that highlight how a product’s personality can amp up a consumers loyalty to a product, and also because I was able to hang this cartoon in my office:

They say women aren’t suppose to decorate their office with lots of personal touches and pictures and whatnot, that it overly feminizes them and people won’t take you seriously, they say. Eh. I think “minimum viable personality” isn’t necessarily a product specific requirement, I think it transcends to the workplace as well. You can’t be afraid to be who you are and let others see that. As said in the post:
WORLD ALREADY FULL OF THINGS DO WORK. MOST BORING.
If you make a product, you want people to buy it. If you have a career, you want companies to want to buy you. Important to have at least a minimum viable personality.



I think I’ve gotten further professionally on my personality than on my actual abilities or intelligence. Like, those are important, yes – they get me in the door. But my personality is what gets me jobs. (That sounds super braggy, but … I’m a scientist. It doesn’t necessarily take much.)
A co-worker and I discuss this often. Both of us tend to be a bit more outgoing with students and, as a result, tend to see a greater comfortability in approaching us at the Reference Desk. Dour and more reserved personalities, though sometimes exceedingly knowledgeable, can sometimes be more off-putting.
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