Scientist CEO

Scientist-brain is unreasonably thorough and wants to check every single case; is very curious about things and willing to follow that curiosity, but doesn’t have a natural check on this process; and prefers working on things that are interesting to them, finding it extremely painful if this is not the case. This is great when you are doing science, because you need the ‘driver’ to be curiosity, and small details matter. But it’s often bad in CEO or founder type roles, where you often need to move fast, decide based on imperfect information, maintain context on 10+ workstreams including sometimes intellectually boring ones, and above all not go down rabbit holes unless they’re super critical to the business. The tragedy of CEO roles is that you’re often not spending much time on the most interesting things at all. (This is also why CEOs/founders want you to be terse in communication and give them the bottom line up front. CEOs are holding so much in their heads already that unnecessary details have a high marginal cost.)