Comments for blog.limedaley.com/post/organizing-for-your-brain-type

Comment #1810

2007-10-12T13:00:17Z

I'm going to try to make comments here while in the process of reading the book, rather than trying to remember them all at the end. :)

Although I know Dad isn't 100% Maintainer, here's evidence that that Force is strong in him:

With your linear, structured style, you focus on details and develop effective methods that allow you to manage tasks and complete assignments, checking them off one by one. Your work style isn't about speed, but reflects a methodical approach that usually requires uninterrupted time to get the job done. Being slow-paced, deliberate, and sequential, your brain type prefers doing things in a way that can appear to others as somewhat boring. But who cares, you do it right the first time and would rather take the time to be right than [be] the first one done!

One of my first memories of Dad is that his programming style was painful (to me) but his programs always worked the first time! (I was much more of an iterative programmer - try this, make a change, try that, make a change, etc. as I homed in on the solution.)

Comment #1809

2007-10-10T20:50:35Z

That's why I gave the warning about taking the test. My score was similar to yours, with Maintainer getting the most points. I am definitely NOT a maintainer. But I have learned to use some Maintainer tools and that skews the results.

Comment #1808

2007-10-09T11:36:42Z

I just took the sensory preference quiz: Kinesthetic=11, Auditory=9, Visual=4. I'm not too surprised, but wish I could take the more official test you (Heather) took in school, because I know the situation is much more complex than the book's quiz can show. As low as Visual is in some areas -- powers of observation, for example -- I'd much, much rather get information from a book than a lecture, and in some ways (albeit weakly) my memory is photographic -- I'll remember the location on a page spread of a quotation I'm looking, for example. Yet if I've talked with someone for two hours and you later ask me what color dress she was wearing, I'll likely not have a clue....

Comment #1807

2007-10-08T21:08:09Z

The library finally came through with this book, and I've just started reading it. I'm interested to see where it will go, because I've already been surprised by the quiz. I was sure I'd be a cross between the Harmonizer and the Innovator, but my highest score was Maintainer! Actually, I didn't score high enough in any category to fit well: 15, 11, 14, 10 -- and you have to have at least 20 in one category to fit that label. Just like me to defy labels, I guess. Maybe I'll get more insight as I read further.

Comment #1806

2007-10-01T16:59:16Z

In this case my goal was met. We all (or at least I) had a little entertainment (plus an interesting conversation about privacy).

Comment #1805

2007-10-01T16:39:48Z

Well, I guess the anonymizing worked a little bit then.

The anonymizing only worked if one had a goal for it and it met that goal .....

Comment #1804

2007-10-01T13:33:14Z

Ah, that makes more sense now. Well, I guess the anonymizing worked a little bit then.

Comment #1803

2007-10-01T13:25:23Z

At least "me 3" was considerate enough to leave a url footprint behind. :) I was thinking I'm really tired of this game until I noticed that.

Comment #1802

2007-10-01T13:05:07Z

Mike isn't the only one who uses Tor. But I don't use it consistently because it's too slow and I don't care enough to wait.

Comment #1801

2007-10-01T00:05:10Z

In other words, I want people here that I know to know who I am, just not google, for example.

Comment #1800

2007-09-30T23:56:11Z

Maybe I was trying to tell somebody that me wasn't Jon by saying 'look at this I can post as "me" also'

Comment #1799

2007-09-30T23:51:40Z

Also, it's **always** obvious that a Tor server is hosting Tor. The list of servers is public info on some website someplace. I'm not trying to hide the fact that I use Tor. But I would like to keep my real ip private, as well as my full name on blog postings.

Comment #1798

2007-09-30T23:45:10Z

Dude, I post as mike and only Mike for a reason.

BTW, I really don't think me or me2 was *me* Mike. I like picking a somewhat anonymous nickname but not one which would actually confuse me with a legitimate user. THo maybe at the time, me didn't seem like a legit user to me.

Comment #1797

2007-09-30T23:31:30Z

Well, that took a while to track down. Peter thought he would be funny by writing "me" for some reason. Mike, AKA me 2 is using some anonymizing software and, while honest in claiming that he wasn't Jon, had a little fun implying that he was Peter/me.

Mike: You'll have to get some better software to be truly anonymous. All but one of the servers that you have used is in Germany, and most of them make it fairly obvious that they are hosting TOR. Additionally, if you randomized the User-Agent field among various valid values, it would make it harder to track.

Comment #1796

2007-09-30T21:56:53Z

Wait a minute. There's a woman in existence who could even compete?

P.S. Good luck basing anything on my IP addr except the fact that it *isn't* my ip addr. :-D

Comment #1795

2007-09-26T16:22:05Z

Based on the IP address, I have one guess as to who it is, although it would be a little strange that he would make it that obvious who he is -- Linda, there is (at least) one person in whom you have a rival for caring about privacy.

Comment #1794

2007-09-25T15:54:54Z

No, I'm not Jon.

Comment #1793

2007-09-25T15:10:40Z

I think what we are all wondering was if you were "me." :) Sounds like poor grammar, doesn't it?

Comment #1792

2007-09-25T14:25:04Z

I didn't see Heather's comment until now - and my answer is I am not sure what you are talking about, and I don't remember.

Comment #1791

2007-09-24T18:18:13Z

Yes, that part is true. I was referring more to the files vs. piles vs. leaving things out, otherwise they'll never get done difference.

Comment #1790

2007-09-24T15:00:01Z

I'm going to have to buy this book so I can contribute more knowledgeably. From what I remember of our phone conversation, one distinction explains why I have trouble finding things in Porter's strictly alphabetical system, and he in my organized-by-categories system. Of course there is overlap in each system (my categories are alphabetical, and he does like some categorization), but there's a basic difference in what each of us thinks of as "disarray."

Comment #1789

2007-09-24T14:33:11Z

The author isn't a Maintainer - I forget which one I thought she was, a harmonizer or an innovator, I think, or else she just empathizes with them really well. But she talks about the frustrations of different types trying to figure each other out.

It seemed to me she was saying that Maintainers have a hard time understanding why other folks leave stuff in various states of disarray and call it organized, since they can get to what they want to quickly.

Comment #1788

2007-09-24T14:27:51Z

Mom, we'd have to ask someone whose husband is not a maintainer to get the answer to that question.

Jon (is that "me"?) - you did read something along those lines because I remember you commenting on it and agreeing (with part joking and part serious (: )

Comment #1787

2007-09-24T13:22:26Z

What do you mean "by definition"? I guess I didn't read the definition of a maintainer, so maybe it's in there.

Comment #1786

2007-09-23T02:44:54Z

"by definition [Maintainers] have a hard time understanding why their way isn't always the right way" -- are you sure that's not just husbands in general? ;)