Is Blogging Unproductive For INTP’s and Code Monkeys?
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkThursday, September 14, 2006
I am an INTP. And frankly blogging often makes me tired, very tired. I like thinking, deep thoughts, product ideas, philosophical ideas, and even explaining it to any intelligent person. But I don’t like talking about it all the time. INTP’s need to regenerate after a talking session. Blogging somehow compels you to “talk” more than you would like to and so you cannot fully regenerate before the next round.
I am not saying that INTP’s shouldn’t be blogging. But I think they should be less frequent bloggers, updating whenever they feel like instead of feeling a vague compulsion to do it everyday or even every week. That is a liberating thought, isn’t it?
INTP mindset is unsuitable for tasks requiring frequent communication. INTJ’s are better at it. So what am I saying?
Let us look at it from a different angle. Programmers are mostly INTP’s. Have you seen any programmers who has recently started heavy blogging become more productive? I would even suspect the reverse would be true.
While none of us need code monkeys, we do need dedicated programmers, people who focus well on the task at hand. Blogging can be distracting, I speak from long experience. When I am in heavy coding mode, I refrain from frequent postings. And when I post it is mostly to rehash some ideas we encountered during the coding binge.
What is your experience on the effect of blogging on productivity?
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May 18, 2010: 6:32 pm
And, I am a Buddhist (well… getting a single, gradually but certainly, haha) And I’ve been asking yourself why Buddhist meditate, it seems like a stupid question, and I think I already know the solution, but I wanna make sure I know what im doing, haha. (I think that Buddhist meditate to manage the mind, is that right ??) |
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April 29, 2010: 6:34 pm
I firmly believe the long term of Tv is user created channels. For example, you drap and drop a programme into your individual channel, and create your personal programming routine. |
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February 23, 2010: 2:47 am
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February 5, 2009: 5:27 am
I find it hard to just come up with one answer per se…..ha ha! If only I could come up with a simple oneliner to answer…..blogging for me is for unclogging for my own personal growth in hopes maybe someone may understand or make sense of what I’ve managed to what’s the best way to. Out it for people who haven’t a clue of all that goes on inside ones head and the weight we carry from the inability to be understood and in attempting to reach out we are faced with what? Stress of what if any when all we want to do is be heard sometimes and an aknowledgement of not just being heard but yeah its ok for there are not many demented or just highly intelligent individuals who are in this too……let me stop myself here… But not before saying can someone please send in the clowns because I don’t know about any of you but I sure do love to laugh and have as much fun as I can’t help myself from being or going and getting too deep….what does that mean…I’m getting too deep??? Anyone get accused of such things? Anyhow didn’t I just say I was going to shut up and finish up??? Sorry to have babbled on and ended up blogging…isn’t this blogging?? LoL!!!! |
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August 3, 2008: 3:02 pm
Well, this is perversely heartening. I have tested more than once as an “INTP” and have been on the receiving end of a few too many of the “you really should write why don’t you blog?” comments not to have mulled over the salacious possibilities of garnering moulah for posting blabs. However, when it comes to interacting with the keyboard and with the weighty albatross around my neck of “You gotta blog every day! You just HAVE to!”, I make a feint and then retire. It is heartening to read that there likely ain’t nothing wrong with finding the idea of regular writing damned distasteful; yes, I do gather my thoughts, but upon mulling them over, wonder, “Why would anybody else, really, opt to spend their time reading this?” It always comes down to whether people read to delight in the costume or if they are taken by the person inside the costume. I daresay, the costume ultimately rules and frankly, I have run out of make-up and fired my wardrobe attendants. |
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December 1, 2006: 3:53 pm
Hey. I was looking up profiles and information about INTPs. I am INTP myself, and I think blogging is a waste of time unless it is educational or useful in some way to the reader and the writer. If I were to blog, my incentive would to be to showcase my knowledge, as a portfolio persay, that a future employer could potentially analyse. Yeah, what you said about compulsion. I don’t think you should feel obliged to do so. |
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