My first encounter with MBTI was at work, eight years ago. I resisted categorization because I dismissed it as being too geometric (like the four elements, or the four humors), and I tried to skew my results so that I'd be the type (ENTJ) that I thought would be promoted. (I've always scored ENTP on tests, no matter how I tried to skew my answers.)
Over the years, I learned more about Jung, what cognitive functions are and how to identify them, the research of Dr. Dario Nardi, etc. When I think about MBTI types these days, I have a lot of experiences to draw on that make them more real to me.
It took me a long time to understand that the MBTI tests out there are of limited value. I only treat them as a starting point when establishing someone else's type in my mind. To really figure someone out, you have to be able to take into account a ton of other things, including childhood traumas, neurodivergence, etc.
For sure. I was super skeptical at first and the more I dug in the more compelled I became. I actually made my own conversational version of the test and ask people if they want to be typed - its fascinating, I have helped type 50+ people.
I got out of your situation by getting interested in investing in 2020. I made smart bets in march that year and had 5X the money when I dumped all my tsla stock teo years ago
I suggest getting a job that you like and is low stress. I spend all my free time studying everything there is to know about human interaction. there are all kinds of subtleties in dating an I'm learning the purpose of each structure. it's like a clutch
if you reveal your hand too fast, you dump the clutch and stall the entine and maybe jerk forward. if you do the the opposite, that's called riding the clutch and in this analogy you wait too long to act toward your nascent goal and the other party loses whatever interest they may have had
you have to constantly re-evaluate this after every single interaction
you have to take an interest in their lives and anticipate their needs
I didn't know it was gonna be the pandemic that did it. I was getting ready to get in because I saw the tiny yield curve inversion in like August or September of 2019 and was preparing to make up for lost decades of not investing at all. I learned all I needed to know in three weeks on youtube and I dunno, it worked for me.
I'm no expert myself in anything, but I pick my experts carefully
You can be incredibly fucking lazy for most of your life except for a few key hinges
I refused to buy the first one because it didn't have a round face. and since then I've decided that I don't want anything at all from Apple in my life, even if they one day do manage to make it pretty and round. everything they make is exploitative
NATO and the UN are both American institutions, and they ultimately serve American interests above all else.
No matter what the future holds for these particular organizations, we should all hope for better and more neutral ones that actually maintain fairness and peace. We need something that's truly independent of all three superpowers
NATO and UN aren't American institutions - they're global organizations with 32 and 193 member nations respectively. NATO has defended non-US territories like Estonia from Russian threats, while 75% of UN peacekeeping operations are in Africa where US strategic interests are minimal. If these were American tools, they wouldn't consistently allocate resources to regions with limited US priority.
I'm saddened to see this is the thing that's being resisted, rather than the Trump administration's desire to throw me in prison for being a trans woman
Over twenty million lives are currently in danger because of the USAID shutdown. I agree there are other valid concerns and the administration is also aware that causing as much chaos as possible may force people to choose which problems to prioritize.
I spent a very long time giving SolveSpace a native Haiku UI. I'm going to keep doing this kind of thing because there's nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI.
I don't care that my approach is harder for the developer, because the thing I care about is consistency and convenience for the user.
I know the thing you built is neat (I've spent quite a few years working on almost the same thing), but I guess this is why I gave up on pushing my own solution
” nothing I personally dislike more than apps that don't use the platform's native UI”
I’m not sure if this is universally applicable dogma. Games generally apply their own UI regardless of platform.
Web apps generally do as well.
I do realize there is space for apps with least surprise per platform, but it’s not obvious to me if an app benefits from platform standard UI any quantifiable way.
App usability and performance typically benefit greatly from using the native platform they’re running on. Plus all the egress savings of not shipping chromium with every download
"App usability and performance typically benefit greatly from using the native platform they’re running on"
I know this has always been the design dogma but is there any research to back this up? It's a _plausible_ dogma of course!
To be honest I don't see the distinction between apps and games. I am usually irritated if the software I'm using has different UI on different platforms. I realize it's possible most users don't use three or four operating systems daily.
"Plus all the egress savings of not shipping chromium with every download"
I'm not sure what this refers to. Creating a custom UI does not require embedding a browser runtime - it's the most silly thing to do IMO.
There are many professional applications (not games) that use custom-drawn UIs.
Examples include video editing software, 3D modeling tools, and professional audio plug-ins. These applications may rely on a significant amount of platform-specific APIs for better OS integration, yet they maintain a consistent appearance across all supported platforms.
There's still a lot of current-day Windows software without native ARM builds, not to mention hardware drivers which can't even be used under emulation, and the current crop of Snapdragon ARM laptops don't have robust Linux support yet AFAIK. It's going to be an uphill battle compared to Apples ARM transition where they could force everyone to switch on pretty short notice or else get left behind.
One of the benefits of switching to any non-x86 platform would be forcing code to be cleaner and not have hidden assumptions about the platform and would thus be able to henceforth be easily compiled for any architecture. I'm sure there is some janky ARM-only cellphone software, but in the wider world it should a mistake we make again.
Interest rates are high for everyone, they don't depend on your political stance.
Example quote: «In subsequent polls, the firm found that Tesla recouped some of its Democratic buyer base […] that uptick may have come from Musk's relative quiet since in the press since the anti-Semitism debacle.»
Over the years, I learned more about Jung, what cognitive functions are and how to identify them, the research of Dr. Dario Nardi, etc. When I think about MBTI types these days, I have a lot of experiences to draw on that make them more real to me.
It took me a long time to understand that the MBTI tests out there are of limited value. I only treat them as a starting point when establishing someone else's type in my mind. To really figure someone out, you have to be able to take into account a ton of other things, including childhood traumas, neurodivergence, etc.