Re: META:Connecting

From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 16:32:23 MDT


Hubert -

I'm happy to oblige, but I expect that most people would simply query the great Google and get a more complete explanation. These are Myers-Briggs personality classifications, extensively discussed on this list a while back.

- Jef
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Hubert Mania
  To: extropians@extropy.org
  Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:51 PM
  Subject: Re: META:Connecting

  Jef wrote:

>>>The Extropians list is for many of us the place on the web where we feel most connected and understood. We share much in common, including a high ratio INTJ / ENTJ personalities,

  [...]

  Why then, do we so often feel disconnected?<<<

  Jef, I give you a simple example: the four letter words INTJ / ENTJ don't mean anything to me. When I read a posting I find interesting and stumble across two or three of those abbreviations I am frustrated and don`t get the message. It could be a measure of politeness to write those words out for the sake that everybody knows what you mean. Of course it is a matter of knowledge acquiring. Maybe some volunteers canl set up a website for an abbreviation database so all or at least the most common three-or-four-letter-words in extropy traffic can be listed and in the course of time nobody must have a bad conscience anymore to use abbreviations. Whenever there are a few minutes of spare time you can upload a couple of terms to that website. Just a proposal that would really pay off.



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