March 1, 2024
My research has uncovered ways of modeling parts of the socion formally — the trick is to unify them all into a single model. By the socion I mean the types,...
October 22, 2022
The basic goal of my research program for the last several years has been to define the semantics of Model A, in an irrefutable mathematical way. This post...
February 22, 2021
link to video Rachel requested to be interviewed rather than doing a typing video. In my experience typing videos are somewhat better than interviews in that...
December 13, 2020
Laura works in a caregiving role. She enjoys helping people in a hands-on way, including her own child, disabled children, the elderly, and the mentally ill....
August 22, 2020
Jen has been in the community a long time, and I typed her many years ago. My conclusion remains the same. But this video presents a self-contained and...
July 23, 2020
Recently I discovered a new model that is more meaningful than previous models we've discussed. Any cube model requires three basic traits. The classical...
June 28, 2020
Today we are typing "Vision". This is obviously a pseudonym, and one which already tells you something about him. A recurring theme is his vision for the...
June 16, 2020
In this video Micah takes an unusual approach to the questionnaire. Many people have asked me whether they could write out notes beforehand. I prefer that...
February 29, 2020
It's common knowledge that Socionics is a "Ti system." That is to say, Model A and the socion itself are very beautiful, symmetric systems that are,...
February 10, 2020
People sometimes object to socionics or typology in general, thinking that having a type limits you to being in a particular "box". First of all, typology is...
November 30, 2019
Socionics is indisputably based on quadrality. Because it's built on dichotomies, everything is groups of two, then four, eight, sixteen (4 times 4), and so...
November 3, 2019
Jack Aaron and Ben Vaserlan recently had a heated debate over the relative merits of Model G and Model A: why Model G was created and if the reasons really...
October 4, 2019
Amanda is going to college to study behavioral neuroscience. She has a lot of passion for her work and intellectual activities. She mentions liking the...
September 18, 2019
I've known Laura for a while now; she is a long-time participant in the socionics community and has made other videos before. This video didn't change my...
August 27, 2019
What are the Reinin dichotomies? The types were initially described using four independent dichotomies[^1] : extraversion/introversion, rational/irrational,...
May 14, 2019
Some observations: Steffi begins the video by mentioning how she is a bit self-conscious and worried about getting her speech right. (probably low Se, valued...
April 20, 2019
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April 19, 2019
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January 27, 2019
There is a small mismatch between how socionics divides up concepts and our everyday concepts, as well as other systems of thought. Intuitively we have an...
October 13, 2018
Socionics, like other scientific theories (in particular physics), relies on giving meaning to mathematical structures: the elements of a group are...
January 1, 2018
Note that Augusta actually was aware of this cube and mentioned it in a 1985 article on the Reinin dichotomies. However, the idea that the relationships are...
December 13, 2017
Ti valuing types are sometimes criticized for ignoring empirical data if it is not consistent with their views. The argument, so it goes, is that empirical...
November 16, 2017
Your benefactor can be seen as a "better version of you" -- someone who does something similar to what you do, but more effortlessly, and can go beyond your...
November 16, 2017
I must confess, I have never read completely through Jung's Psychological Types, or even the chapter that is about the type definitions. I find the writing...
January 22, 2017
Around six years ago, I embarked on a project to discover the true essence of the information elements. It seemed to me that their descriptions were either,...
December 19, 2016
Some words used to describe Te occasionally are efficiency or optimization. However, these do not exactly capture what Te is about in the sense of trying to...
October 19, 2016
Most people in the public sphere seem to be of Se valuing types (in particular Beta and/or extroverted). This presents a problem: if we use celebrities as...
October 19, 2016
Today I want to talk about some misconceptions that people have with socionics. Certain misconceptions about socionics tend to come up again and again (along...
September 16, 2016
Betas are known for their "activism", or having a general drive to shape greater society or community for the good in some way. This comes from valuing Ti,...
September 10, 2016
This is intended to be a sister site to my articles site, Whole Socionics, which lays out some of my theoretical views on socionics. It turns out that it's a...