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But unfortunately I can't tell you, as you won't be able to make use of it. Or rather, you could, but you won't. What a fuck am I. Maybe I should file the serial numbers off and package it as a religion. As Valentine Smith discovered that's probably the easiest to get people to learn...

Dario Nardi claims that the sixth function (Ni for the INTP, archtypically known as the "Good Parent") plays a specific role in the psyche as follows. In this video he brings up the example of the INTP and claims that those who integrate/develop Ni can have a vision and a purpose about the...

by Cal Newport, a millennial CS prof. Your library should have it, if not get an eBook. For all the career seekers out there I recommend reading the above book. Rather than the saccharine "Follow your passion" advice he takes an evidence based approach to get the career you want, and along...

Deep Work Recommend reading. I think its more than likely the author is an INTP. The book is annoying written mostly for the business crowd, probably to sell more copies, but could well have been titled "The Intuitive Work Handbook". Nothing I didn't really know but never really thought...

I'm normally apolitical but given the extraordinary nature of this US election took up studying it deeply as I could as a once in a lifetime event. I did make the vow that once it was over I would get out, and now is the time and my public declaration of such. I'm going back to my navel gazing...

The best game for INTP's? Don't know, but it's surely the best game in that regards I've ever played. What I like in games is complexity and strategy. I also like good graphics, music, narrative and a game that integrates it all very well. Civ 6 nails it. Long time player. Spent the most time...

I came across something in a Forbes article that I like - I think this could serve as the INTP daily mantra. It's been true for me my whole life, I happened to figure out something like this when young. Now reading Drenth's book on INTP Quest this graphic would describe our situation...

Computer tasks that are more associated with intelligence (e.g. visual/auditory recognition) have traditionally been approached in a structured, symbolic manner. We naturally assumed that you'd need a logic based approach, or trees of data to solve these kinds of problems, because surely that's...

Anybody into drones? The personal kind, not the military. They keep popping up, I think it's something I should be interested in, but when I look into them there's really no energy or interest. Is it just flying around taking pictures? I guess you can race too.

Define authentic living for yourself. Not in generic terms, but specific things you do to live authentically, and why that is authentic. If you're not living authentically, describe why that is, again specifically.

The Creative Life: Insights for INTPs, INFPs, ENTPs, & ENFPs Expands on an idea he talked about in The INTP Quest.

A new book by Drenth; The INTP Quest It's an advanced guide for established INTP's. Having been through the phases he discusses here I think he nailed it. Worth getting a copy.

New profile by an interesting women-only mostly intuitive (INTP/ISFJ/ENFJ/INFJ) run site which focuses on the cog functions TiNe (INTP) For reference

An excellent new profile by an INTJ. Precise in a way not many profiles are, worth carefully reading The INTP Logician For reference

Joanna Rutkowska of Qubes fame. Her 'about me' page linked above could be something I've written, spooky. I've watched many of her talks with my security work but not from a MBTI perspective. Clearly an NT from her self-description, probably not an INTJ because there's a warmth that INTJ's...

Here's a new one I found interesting and refreshing INTP non profile I think whoever did this just collected snippets from all the profiles s/he found and dumped in one place. In a way I found it more true than your typical profile, kind of a meta.

Being Lazy Is a Sign of High Intelligence, Study Suggests This is a correlation, not causation. Meaning that your being lazy doesn't mean you are intelligent, but that intelligent people are often viewed as lazy. This demonstrates my view on the topic of INTP laziness, which is that it can be...

The millennial generation - most of you - are growing up now and so we can get a handle on what they're like as a group, and unfortunately the defining characteristic seems to be boring. At work the Boomers are retiring and their kids are getting hired, and I'm having a heck of a time finding...

An observation about INTP's (based on my small sample size) is that "intellectual redneck" seems to be an apt description. One is our apparent affinity for slumming. We seem happy to hang out with low life type characters, actually preferring them to better society. Two is a fascination with...

Found a new profile that's pretty good Nicely said. Others (such as Lenore Thompson) have noted the situational awareness ability of Ti. Also very interesting contrast between INTP's and ENTP's. For reference ...

Well look at this, breakdown of the lawyer personality types ISTJ (17.8%) ESTJ (10.3%) INTJ (13.1%) ENTP (9.7%) INTP (9.4%) ENTJ (9.0) Compare that to MBTI Type is Software Engineering INTJ (7%) INTP (8%) Which, assuming these numbers are accurate, means that...

I don't go in for FadSci (fad science) much, being in the field I see the gap between the wild hyperbole and what is really going on. But this theoretical research captures my eye ‘Molecules’ made of light may be the basis of future computers Generally I'm a touch skeptical of 'big physical'...

A thread recently on the difficulties of living with Ne prompts a post on various tips and tricks I use to keep focused, some of this has probably been previously published. For background I'm not as hyper-focused as it might seem from these postings. I go through fallow periods, and still have...

Allow me a rant on the medical system. I went into a simple Dermatology appointment to get the moles checked. For background, the medical system is knife-happy. Rather than risk litigation they'd prefer to just 'take it off the table', whether it's a mole, appendix, prostate or uterus. If it...

I helped Andrew at PJ with an I.T. issue, and getting to know each other a bit he wanted to interview me for his career section. Those who know me here will have heard most of this story but here is another version. An INTP’s Career Journey & Reflections

OK here's your chance. In one sentence, tell us why you think MBTI is wrong or flawed Counter-replies can be of the same form; one sentence rebuttals, must quote the original.

http://personalityjunkie.com/intps-istps-one-thing/

Found this blog post that people might find useful.

A topic that has been coming up for me in different contexts with different people is focus versus purpose. I think some people are focus oriented. Specifically the Si dominants. Recall my theory of type is that the functions are fundamentally information streams in the cortex, thus manifest as...

We've suspected Terry Gross as being a INFJ for some time but since little is out about her it was never clear. Mark Maron interviewed her and it couldn't be more obvious now. Some choice quotes We're suspecting Mark to be an INFJ also. TBD, but Terry is in the bag.

I think we can call this one for sure, warning, long article but well worth the time TOMORROW’S ADVANCE MAN Before you say it, yes he has an egg-head as mentioned in the article. I think the article amply shows something I've discovered, is that INTP's shouldn't leave working in the...

New article by Drenth Careers & Personality Type: Structure vs. Content Pretty light, as his stuff has been recently, but he's zeroing in on career stuff now. But here's a point I've been making which is pretty good I've been obsessed by my path - work, career, whatever you want to call it...

Got your attention. But actually it's a serious point that has been a theme of my musings on this board for some time. A trend I've noticed during my career has been the obsolescence of knowledge and being smart. The reason is that the Internet is smarter and knows more than you do. When I was...

From the hardware to the problems you can solve, the technical challenges, from one of the D-Wave guys. I've been looking for a decent quick and comprehensive discussion of QM compute and this was perfect. It might be too technical, but maybe if you don't worry about the details too much it'll...

I'm beginning to wonder if we at INTPf should fork the site as they did at INTPc (INTP Central - now INTP Complex). We are in a similar situation, the original owner is seemingly hard to contact, disinterested in the forum and so forth. As a consequence the forum suffers from running old...

It's noted INTP's generally like computers, and indeed they frequently show up in the field. Don Knuth estimates that 2% of all college students really resonate with computers. Is being a geek (in the Knuth sense) a separate trait from being an INTP, related to it or something else?

An INTP Finds an Uncommon Niche as a Master Carpenter and Perpetual World Traveler Backpacker, snowboarder, traveleer and woodworker. Sounds more like an ISTP than INTP, and despite talking about how we like thinking and theorizing, there's little of that in the article. But, there you go.

B&W, Mono, Subtitles, 143 minutes. Ikiru is an early film by Akira Kurosawa. Built on a Carpe Diem variant, you can read the story in the Wikipedia link I give. There are several unusual aspects of this film worth noting. One is that it's not the usual Western Carpe Diem movie, which usually...

http://science.slashdot.org/story/15/03/27/2116200/dark-matter-is-even-more-of-a-mystery-than-expected What's actually strange here is that I seem to be the only one who thinks we're looking for a black cat in a pitch dark basement that isn't there. The parallels with the search for the Ether a...

Just a theory I've been noodling over, which is I've come to think that all of us (all types for the most part) 'give in' to our tertiary too much. I'll give examples below, but the reason for this is simple. Being in the inferior part of the stack it's relatively immature and undifferentiated...

This is a something that keeps proving itself over and over; Archie, don't try and help people. There's a single exception, which is other INTP's, possible reasons why below. And I'll note I'm sure some of you have had better luck, but I certainly haven't. Most of the time I try to help somebody...

Generalizing some ideas I've talked about here, I think stepping back from some of the professions I've mentioned as ideal or good fits can be generalized in the following way. The ideal life work for an INTP is being a writer. I mean this in the most general purpose way. INTP's don't like...

From a question Cherry asked on another thread. INTP's commonly have a sometimes lifelong search for self-knowledge, as A.J. Drenth discusses in "The INTP". Certainly we see this on INTP focused groups, this one being the best example. However there are exceptions, notably in Albert Einstein...

As mentioned on another thread perhaps we should have a thread on the INTP vs the ISTP. Summary INTP vs ISTP youtube The first big difference between the two similar types is Ne auxiliary versus Se auxiliary. I'll compare myself to my brother (ISTP) to illustrate. This is useful as we both...

INTP's only please Many around food I hate people looking at my food, or asking about it I hate eating with other people, I prefer doing it quietly alone I hate looking at food pictures I hate food that's not fresh, it must be just made or recooked Complicated food Colleagues who eat at their...

Occasionally you come across patterns in people that you wouldn't except from their type, at first glance. On reflection they invariably make sense once you look deeper into their functional stack, but I thought to note some of them here. Note I'm not talking about the outliers, but regular...

Something people on forums like this frequently say is you can't Type a person from their behavior. The problem is that if you don't then you're out of the realm of Type. Follows is a video on this topic. They're talking about a specific and common forum incident, all that's important is the...

Since there's been some interest in the functions recently it's worth reading Beebe's thoughts Type and archetype; The Spine and its Shadow and part two Part 2

My name is Architect, and I'm an information junkie ... there I said it. Like the 12 step program the first step is to admit you have a problem. Anyhow, I'm constantly scanning for information. I'll pick up hobbies just to learn about them, only to drop them once I've sufficiently learned...

I've posted little recently as I've been extremely busy with several different projects, however because of this I've had an interesting insight about myself, and INTP's generally I think. Which is that INTP's are probably the one type that most needs to straddle the border between art and...