Feb
22

Personal beliefs

rivercrow on February 22nd, 2007

I am INTP. My dominant function is Introverted Thinking, my auxiliary is Extraverted Intuition. If I do not feed my Ti, I begin to wrap round my axle. If I do not feed my Ne, I starve. I need information from the world like plants need water. My tertiary process, Si/e has emerged and I [...]

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Jan
23

Grad school, ugh

rivercrow on January 23rd, 2007

That sums it up. I started back to school in fall 2005. The first semester was good–a bit redundant, considering what I’ve done for a living, but good. I did learn new processes.

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Jan
16

Musings on communities

rivercrow on January 16th, 2007

I keep having discussions about communities…specifically online communities. (If you’re in my immediate circle, you’re tired of hearing this, but don’t let that put you off!) People join together to discuss common interests. Or people fall into crowds and end up accidentally engaged in conversations. It becomes a story of its own (like this one [...]

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Jan
8

The trap of hubris in self-assessment

rivercrow on January 8th, 2007

A friend and I were discussing our personal failings one day. We each had a litany of miseries–we were terrible failures at this and that, we were misunderstood constantly–and the challenge of digging ourselves our of our pits into respectability seemed impossible. As we complained about how we didn’t measure up to what we should [...]

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Nov
23

Third excerpt from Thompson’s “Personality Type” and some from Jaxon-Bear

rivercrow on November 23rd, 2006

I’d like to continue my comparison of INTP and Enneagram 5. Although a preference for INTP does not necessarily mean a preference for Enneagram 5, I think this is a case of exception proving the rule. The previous excerpts from Thompson are followed by: INTPs who make a deliberate attempt to apply Extraverted Intuition to [...]

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