Process and Result

This is about your relationship with doing and finishing.

Process People

• Experience themselves as inside activities: absorbed and immersed
• The doing itself is satisfying
• Interruptions feel jarring
• Naturally elaborate and refine
• "Almost done" feels premature; there's always more to develop

Result People

• Experience themselves as outside activities: managing toward an end
• The outcome is the point
• Completing things is satisfying
• Naturally simplify and conclude
• "Almost done" is exciting; the finish line is in sight

The key difference: process people love the doing; result people love the done.

If you're process-oriented, recognize sometimes shipping is better than perfecting. If you're result-oriented, recognize sometimes more development produces better outcomes.

Both orientations matter. Depth and completion are both valuable.