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title: How would your closest colleague describe working with you?
description: Interview · About Me · Question 6
section: mind
tags: [interview, about-me]
genre: reference
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lastUpdated: 2026-04-17
url: https://fardiniqbal.com/docs/mind/interview/about-me/how-would-your-closest-colleague-describe-working-with-you
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My closest working relationship has been with the agency founder, and with the therapists and BCBAs who use my software daily.

The agency founder would say I'm the person who takes a vague problem and returns a working system. She once described a workflow issue, something about referral emails piling up and taking 15 minutes each to process manually. I built an AI pipeline with Gemini that processes 100 emails every five minutes automatically. She didn't ask for that scope. She described the pain. I solved the pain.

The therapists would say something different. They'd say I listen. When I was building Tiny Thoughts, I didn't just ask what features they wanted. I watched them work. I sat in on how they record trials. I learned that the best UX for a therapist in a session with a child isn't simple. It's fast. Every interaction under five seconds. They don't want fewer features. They want features that don't slow them down while they're focused on a child. That observation shaped the entire product.

I think the common thread is: he builds what you actually need, not what you said you wanted. And he doesn't ask permission to make it better than you expected.