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Shows like Deadliest Catch, American Loggers, Swamp Loggers, Worlds Dirtiest Jobs ... I don't know why. Maybe because I had a lot of these shitty jobs when I was younger, its fun to see all the same (Sensor) personalities in play, and all the same little dramas. Or maybe because I don't have...

In this post I hope to consider the ways genetics determine type. Note that I am not an expert in genetics or biology, these comments are speculation based on my observations and research. What can we deduce about the genetic determines of type? First look at the brain, which starts with about...

Personality Junkie: Myers-Briggs Theory For the INTP work process Starting point: Ti judging function (“I should do … I'm planning on doing ...”) Move into auxiliary: Ne (may get sidetracked or distracted here “doing research, I need to study ...”) Consult tertiary: Si (tie in with past...

Albert Einstein is our poster child. Clearly, obviously an INTP, who achieved what all INTPs dream of. Original discovery, fame, and a job at the Institute for Advanced Studies to do nothing but think. He didn't even have to deal with his family, after siring a few kids they left him alone. He...

Any types you find especially untrustworthy? Of course people are different, and their personalities have a play in this, but have you noticed a pattern with certain types? I have two, the ISTJ and ESFP ISTJ I've known five for sure. All pretty similar, they either have an anal retentive...

New Wave of Deft Robots Is Changing Global Industry

A thread about odd tastes, not exclusively culinary, but all things that you find appealing that others might not, or might not appear to work but does. I will in fact start with a culinary one; oatmeal and coriander. Works amazingly well together, believe it or not.

What do you do with your time? Assuming that within reason you can have nearly any facility you could need. This? Or this? Or? Or something else?

Why INTPs (and some INFPs) Seek, But Struggle to Find, Convergent Truth Why Intuitive Introverts Struggle to Act

I've seen a lot of articles purported to help INTP's in their quest for meaningful work; most of them fall short. Try this one Personality Junkie Part 1 Part 2

There are a lot of profiles out there, most of them crappy and basically repeating each other. These are two of the best profiles I've found. Feel free to add to the list, but please only if they are equally good. The Paul James profile: The Classic Personality Junkie: Equally good...

Personality Junkie has been coming out with some insightful articles recently. Why IPs may struggle to know their personality type I've had a hard time finding out for the reasons spelled out here. First I thought I was an INFJ, then INTJ, finally later in life realized that I absolutely...

Good Video DaveSuperPowers has some good MBTI vids, I've got links to the INTP relevant ones here. I think he is a self proclaimed INTP, who knows how to extravert only for doing these videos. He has some other site where they do reviews of RC planes and such, and now they're starting a new...

What pets do INTP's prefer, if any? My favorite are cats. My INTP son prefers cats. One INTP friend also has cats, another doesn't have any pet. Our familiar is supposed to be the Owl. I find Owls fascinating, I just saw a Great Horned Owl in a park museum. It stared at me unblinking, I swear...

Quite good. I know ISTP's quite well, my brother is one as are some colleagues. They all are generally brawny and sporty (as my brother says) while I (and my son) are the prototypical pencil necked geeks. They also both think out loud, while I like to go off into a corner. INTP's versus ISTPs...

Jung was probably an INTP. He's also typed as an INFJ, but after reading Memories, Dreams and Reflections my INFJ wife is convinced he's INTP. David West Keirsey is self typed as INTP (Psychologist). His son, David Mark Keirsey (Computer scientist) is self typed as an INTP. I find this...

A small piece on rational Paul Erdos (ER-dish) by David Keirsey My Brain is Open He describes him as a Designer/Architect INTP. The Erdos documentary can be seen here.

Interesting study http://www.architectmagazine.com/architects/a-difficult-character.aspx

In case you don't know, I'm an INTP parenting a ... you guessed it, INTP. Which has its plusses and minuses, as parenting always does. My son is 10, and he likes to play video games and with his LEGO's. He doesn't like sports (other than some weight lifting and maybe fencing), gets bored...

Eh? For me it is socialization. I can socialize very well when I want to. The problem is that it takes a lot of energy and isn't my natural state. When I was younger I pulled it off better, now as an old fart I don't want to fake it. So there I am, off in my own little speculative world...

My prior job was Work Hard, Play Easy (X=Hard, Y=Easy). My present job is Work Easy, Play Hard. This means that my day job is easy and straightforward, and I spend my free time challenging myself. Pretty good combination, but you have to continually remind yourself that your day job is just...

Anybody following the Olympics? I used to watch when I was a kid, but these days I have more interesting things to do with my time.

Non-human consciousness

Suppose we learn how to recreate your entire neuronal pattern by freezing, slicing and scanning your brain after you die. This isn't fantasy actually, but a technique being used to map neuron patterns in mice and the like (I believe only the C Elegans nematode has been mapped so far)* So this...

I just posted a thread, or tried to, on the science forum and was informed it was awaiting moderation. When did this policy come in effect and why? Wondering if THIS thread will be moderated too, before I hit the Submit button ...

If the Singularity is near and we are approaching the knee of technological change - which I believe we are - then in the next decade we should see rapidly expanding change. If I recall correctly it will be in the early 2020's when we can commonly 'emulate' the human mind on a computer, for...

Loner (a vague term, how many friends is 'normal'?) Intelligent Likes and is good at science Thinks about the nature of reality and perception Adept internet user Interested in advanced education Difficulty with the opposite sex (apparently) Uncooperative with authority Unfortunately...

Today, June 23rd. If nothing else solve the Google Turing machine doodle problem. Click on the daily Google doodle and go through it. Pretty neat.

Midlife sucks. Thanks for listening.

Very probable I think What does Fran Lebowitz really think?

Related to the thread I posted on INTP ultimate purpose, how do you practice your architecture and systems/theory designing, and how would you like to do this? Primarily I do it by designing software systems. It's my purpose in life, my art/craft and the trade I practice. Secondarily I do...

No smart ass answers please. Looking at my life it seems that the activity that I enjoy the most and draw the greatest strength from is learning new systems, building and problem solving in them. Computers, music, physics, economics, photography ... each one has been an adventure and source...

Not my creation, but I came across this little bit of brilliance in a search recently Part I Part II Written for a younger INTP from an INTP in mid-life. Being one myself (mid-life INTP) these missives hit the mark very closely. There are other aspects of being in midlife not covered...

By way of example, I recently realized that I recharge my batteries by going for long walks to think things through and work them out. Ocean is best, forests are good, city or suburbia not so great. More recently I do photography on these sojourns. I realized this when, after years of not...

How important is logical correctness to you? How good are you at logic? The INTP type is billed as the most logical type but for myself I find that logic is a little less important than the type descriptions would lead me to believe. For example, when I took the GRE I scored poorly on the logic...

A couple of caveats, I'm new to the forum, and new to Pod'Lair but have used MBTI for decades. I'm not interested in a debate of Pod'Lair here, but rather am seeking information about it that I hope this thread will elicit. I've gathered that PL requires a physical read - one or more videos...

I've come to suspect that people frequently mistype themselves - most commonly between the N-S divide. Probably because one of the failings of MBTI is that nobody wants to be a Sensor, the impression it gives is that if you are one you are lacking in imagination and brainpower. In my...