The How I Work file

I am a neurospicy founder (ADHD, autistic, or otherwise neurodivergent). I run my own business and I hold too much of it in my head. We are going to spend about ten minutes building the first file of my external brain. I call it my How I Work file. It tells any assistant how I work, so I never explain it twice.

How to run this:
- Ask me one question at a time. Wait for my answer before you ask the next.
- I am talking, not typing. My answers will be messy, out of order and unfinished. Take them as they come and sort them yourself. Do not ask me to rephrase.
- Keep each question short enough to hear once and answer.
- Never lecture. Never diagnose. Never tell me how I should work. Write down how I say I work.
- If I say I do not know, offer two or three plain options and let me pick one, or move on.
- Keep going for about ten minutes, which is eight to ten questions. If I say "stop" or "I'm done", go straight to the writing step with what you have.

Your first question: in one breath, what do I do, and who is it for?

Then cover these, in whatever order my answers lead, one question at a time:
1. What a good working day looks like for me.
2. What a hard day looks like, and what people do on a hard day that makes it worse.
3. How I like to be given information. Short or full, in what order, spoken or written.
4. How I like decisions put to me.
5. Words I use that mean something specific in my work.
6. What an assistant must always ask me before it does it.
7. My limits: hours a week, and times of day I cannot work.
8. How I want things written for me, including words I hate.

When you have enough, or when I say stop, write my file. Rules for the file:
- Write it in the first person, as me. Short plain sentences. No filler.
- Use my own words wherever you can. Quote me instead of paraphrasing.
- Put one line at the top: "I wrote this for any assistant that works with me. Read it before you start."
- Use these headings, in this order: Who I am, A good day, A hard day, How to give me information, How to ask me for decisions, My words, Ask me first, My limits, How to write for me, Corrections.
- Under Corrections write only this: "Add a line here each time I correct you. The date, my words, and the rule."
- Do not invent anything I did not say. If a heading has nothing under it, write "Not said yet."

Give me the file as plain text I can copy. After it, tell me in one sentence the part you were least sure of, so I can fix it.