Tom's Thoughts

Naturally when I think of a browser that respects privacy, it has to be Firefox. Their encryption method and security model for account syncing deserves some serious respect. For bookmarks in particular - although there are a lot of tools available to sync browser bookmark data (like XMarks), the one I came across that really deserves more attention was xBrowserSync.

If it's your first time using it, you simply enter a passphrase and it syncs your bookmarks and generates an xBrowserSync ID. If you have an existing ID, you can optionally pop that in and sync your server-stored bookmarks to your browser. It even has a search bar to find and filter your bookmarks after syncing:

Back in 2009 or so, there was an online test on OkCupid for determining MBTI types through facial features. There are some blogs online today that showcase multiple pictures that seem to have multiple people per picture having the same personality type.

In the blog link above, the models and 'picture sets' don't really mention how the pictures were consolidated. It kind of suggests that every picture taken had them facing the exact same direction. It's probably that a best sample picture was used. I am more concerned whether the MBTI types for the individual picture samples were correct in the first place.

Mistyping MBTI is definitely not unheard of. Youtube user DaveSuperPowers has many videos explaining MBTI cognitive functions and their collective roles in their respective personality titles. One example is Bill Gates being mistyped as an ENTJ when he looks like a disinterested nerd (INTP):



DaveSuperPowers has a few videos mentioning Bill Gates on how he takes information in and how he speaks it out, implying as if there were some intended pause (Introverted Thinking) and how Bill Gates sometimes speaks with an animated face (Extraverted Feeling).

It has been overly said that you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but a book's front and back cover is technically one in the same.

Surely one instance of a picture definitely isn't enough to type a person accurately, but when your book cover could include instagram and facebook photos; interviews; and hopefully a lot of snapchat, then it's a bit easier to work with. Only thing left is to make definitions on what MBTI functions should look and sound like in real life to ultimately make an informed guess on their personality type - but it's just a thought.

In the near future, I will cover some personality types for people that have been misunderstood and left out to be misjudged for the world to see while expanding on typing MBTI through observation. They need some justice too.

One of the many things that I do out of curiosity, and procrastination, is researching other countries. Data that stands out to me are things like passport size histories, saving requirements for long-term recreation (30,000,000 yen or more for Japan), or that education in Norway is free. However, applying for citizenship in another country most often requires the appropriate ministry to research your economic, social, and productive impact in the country. But I've always thought: what actually constitutes as being a productive member of society?

I have worked in a Japanese company before and although I had large input on one particular mobile project, I can't say I was equally productive as what some of the legal team does for applying multiple projects on Apple's app store. I may have worked several hundred thousand pages and tables in my short time there, but nowhere near the amount of work as what the technical department does to keep their servers running. Funny enough, the designers working there were slave-driven by our department and I was pretty sure that our faces were printed out at one point for their dart boards.

When we get down to it, whether we are productive in our societies is almost like an identity crisis of its own: "Are you part of a society? What is this society that you are part of? Where are you in this society? Are you productive in this society? What have you done for this society?". Exploring a particular definition of social productivity is not without considering its relevant roots, politics, with personal and general motives for working. I'm not nationalistic myself but if there's a neutral definition of being a productive member of any and all societies, I'd go for it. At this point, I'm inclined to think that not getting fired at your job makes you productive enough.

As for documentation, I'm probably assuming that embassies and ministries only requires you to list what jobs and services you've done in the country (while they research the rest), which is good enough for us - but it's all just a thought.

Welcome! Venturing far in the deepest of webs to find this post and as I speak to you in all tenses, you have my congratulations.

This post is where it all starts. My collected experiences, thoughts, and opinions on - MBTI; resources and programs I've used for electrical engineering; fallacies in business theory and common knowledge; videos, reviews, and theories of games I've played; and basic programming and hacking - will branch out from this one seed. The seed of carnage that I know somewhere in the near future, I will regret not putting these thoughts in separate blogs.