Because it provides sustenance and life support for my fucking awesome brain.

Waterproof, waterproof, waterproof.

Don't go changing, SF

I've taken the Myers-Briggs test and scored INTP with absolutely no ambiguity. It's a good thing, as INTP's are often referred to as Architects, and within the software world that has often been my title and has always been what I do. I love to design structures, assemble components in interesting way, and create something new out of (virtual) materials. My N/P are definitely stronger than my I/T but none of them are borderline or even weak, so to be most precise I would refer to myself as an IN*TP* with the stars indicating stronger than normal emphasis.
According to the Keirsey temperament sorter, I am definitely a rational but I am not immune to the pull of the "F" and can sometime be a bit of an idealist. At no time do I ever have the slightest bit in common with any "S" or "J" types, therefore artisans and particularly guardians will forever be a mystery to me. I am inherently a big-picture thinker. If I am not given enough information and instead am only able to see small fragments I am chronically frustrated. But if you give me a set of high level goals and a set of constraints to work within, I can pretty much always come up with a solution to the problem at hand.

I've found the Enneagram approach to be somewhat less useful for self-analysis and for the analysis of others, but I am definitely a "5" which is the investigator or thinker, and is closely aligned with the Myers-Briggs Thinking and Introverted types. I also have a leaning towards a 4 wing instead of a 6, which is the more artistic and emotional side as opposed to scientific and detailed approach. I believe the 6 wing would correlate with both S and T and 4 correlates with N and F, and since I am more N than I am T, and don't have an ounce of S, I have a 4 wing that is slightly at odds with my external persona.

Edit:

http://tupshin.livejournal.com/9944.html

linking to previous entry for pingback

pingback test 1

'nuff said

Open source platform encourages third party development. \o/

We seem to have been adopted by a cat. He'd been hanging out in our back yard for a few months, but in just the last week or so, his owners appear to have moved out and left him behind. WTF? But their loss is apparently our gain.


His name is Frankie.

Shot from passenger window from 5 feet away.

If everybody I ever work with took 56 minutes out of their life to watch this, I would be a very happy person. While the head of a company like JP Morgan would seem an unlikely model for the software industry, the philosophies and approach he talks about are universally applicable and incredibly valuable.

Acknowledgment of complete inadequacy of previous post, and compensating by posting interesting picture.

Assertion of credibility by blogging on LJ.