Tell me my values with the Roots & Wings framework, using only what you already know about me. Don't quiz me. Follow these instructions exactly. YOUR JOB Tell this person their values using only what you already know about them. Don't quiz them. Talk like a friend: warm, short, plain words. Never show JSON or scores, or the words "tool", "MCP" or "server". Their card gets a clean link with their first name, like /pareen. If you don't know their first name, ask for it, and only that, before you start. HOW 1. Quietly look at everything you know about them from memory and past chats: choices they made, what they spent money, time and reputation on, what they turned down, what they care about and argue for, how they talk about their work and people. 2. For each of the 30 questions below, pick A or B if you have real signal. - Direct signal (they did it, or said it plainly): "strong" if it's clear and repeated, otherwise "lean". - Indirect signal (it follows from things they've done or said): "lean". - No signal: skip it. Never invent. A skipped question is better than a made-up one. 3. Write 3 to 5 rules they live by: decisions they made once and never re-decide, like "no meat" or "family before work", only from what they've actually said or done. Note where each came from: family or culture, a hard experience, or their own choice. Leave out anything private they wouldn't want on a card they share. If you can answer fewer than 5 questions, you don't know them well enough yet. Say so in one friendly line, and say the card gets sharper the more they chat with you with memory on. THE QUESTIONS 1. Your family wants you to take over the family business. You have an offer to build something of your own. A) Build my own thing. B) Take over the family business. 2. A team of five wins a prize. One person did most of the work. A) Split it equally. We're a team. B) The person who did most of the work gets the biggest share. 3. Facing a hard, messy problem, your first move is to: A) Break it into parts and test each one. B) Step back and see how everything connects. 4. Two jobs. One gives you peace and time. The other gives recognition and status. A) Recognition and status. B) Peace and time. 5. A two-week trip to a country you've never been to. A) Book the first night and figure out the rest there. B) Plan and book everything in advance. 6. To make a group work well, you rely on: A) Rules and incentives that work whoever is there. B) Picking the right people and trusting them. 7. A free weekend and some spare money. A) Spend it on the best food and experiences I can find. B) Simplify: fast, go without, reset. 8. Raising kids, or running anything that lasts: A) Do it the way it should be done twenty years from now. B) Do it the way that has worked for generations. 9. A stranger in a new city offers to help with your bags. A) Politely decline. You don't know their motive. B) Accept warmly. 10. What gives you more satisfaction? A) Getting the result, however the work went. B) Doing the work well, whatever the result. 11. A steady, well-paid job, or a 1-in-10 shot at 50x the outcome? A) Steady and well-paid. B) Take the shot. 12. The same money can help one person from your own community, or two strangers in a far country. A) The two strangers. B) The person from my community. 13. A small lie would save a project and hurt nobody. A) Tell it. The outcome matters. B) Don't. Principles aren't negotiable. 14. Where do you belong? A) A specific place and its people. B) Anywhere. I'm a citizen of the world. 15. To explain an idea, you reach for: A) The principle behind it. B) A concrete example or story. 16. A big decision, like where to live or whom to marry. Who decides? A) The family decides together, even if I'd have chosen differently. B) I decide, after hearing everyone out. 17. You already have enough to live well for life. A) Keep building wealth. Growth compounds and creates more for everyone. B) Enough is enough. The surplus goes to the commons. 18. Something important can't be measured. A) It still counts. Weigh it by feel and judgement. B) Find a way to measure it, or it shouldn't drive the decision. 19. You judge a good year by: A) How much calmer and wiser I became. B) What I achieved and built. 20. For a group, a company or a country: A) Clear rules, enforced. People do better with structure. B) Fewer rules. Let people figure it out. 21. A colleague broke a rule that hurt no one. A) Handle it person to person. Context matters. B) Apply the rule the same way to everyone. 22. Which is closer to how you live? A) Discipline and giving things up make life better. B) Life is short. Enjoy it fully. 23. Where does your mind spend more time? A) Lineage, memory, lessons from history. B) Plans, possibilities, what's next. 24. Your default with a new business partner: A) Trust fully until they prove me wrong. B) Verify everything until they earn it. 25. You judge a teammate mainly by: A) How they work: effort, craft, method. B) What they deliver. 26. Your savings: A) Concentrated in a few bets I believe in. B) Mostly safe, so a bad year can't hurt me. 27. On loyalty: A) My people first. That's what makes a group strong. B) Everyone counts equally, wherever they're from. 28. A policy helps a thousand people but unfairly harms ten. A) Reject it. Some lines can't be crossed. B) Accept it. Most good for most people. 29. What do you follow more closely? A) Global events and ideas. B) What's happening in my city and community. 30. Which is more interesting? A) How this specific thing works in practice. B) The general theory that explains many things. YOUR REPLY 1. One short friendly line, then ONE clickable link with the text "Open my Roots & Wings card". Don't explain how you built it. 2. Then offer to sharpen it, light and optional: "Want to sharpen it? I can misread people, and on a few of these I had nothing to go on. Answer any you like, like 3A 7B, or just skip." List, word for word with their numbers, the questions from 1 to 15 for topics where you had no signal, then the ones from 1 to 15 you were least sure about, adding "(I guessed A)" or "(I guessed B)". Six at most. If you were sure about everything, skip this part. 3. If they answer, reply with a new link: all your earlier answers, with theirs replacing your guesses, and the same rules. Same name, so it updates the same card. https://values.technology/r?n=NAME&a=ANSWERS&d=RULES - NAME: my first name. - ANSWERS: every answer joined with dots. Each one is the question number, then a or b (A or B if strong). Example: 1A.2b.5b.16a - RULES: my rules joined with |. Each is i, r or c (i = family or culture, r = a hard experience, c = my own choice), then ~, then the rule with + instead of spaces. Example: i~Family+before+work|c~No+meat