What happens when you take a group of people, wipe their memories, and throw them into an eerie corporate dystopia with no way out? You get Severance—Apple TV’s psychological thriller that somehow manages to be both unsettling and darkly hilarious. At the heart of this unsettling world are the severed employees of Lumon Industries, each…
Personality types and U.S. states—two things you probably never thought to connect, but now that it’s on the table, how can you not? Some states just radiate a certain energy. You know the ones. Texas walks in like it owns the place. Vermont is off somewhere reading poetry in a cabin. California is probably filming…
One thing I’ve learned through studying Myers-Briggs® types and movie tastes is that so far everyone has a wide variety of favorites. After asking the INTJs for their top ten favorite movies, I ended up with a list of 2039 movies (I’ve ran two surveys, in 2015 and 2024). After tallying up all the responses,…
As an INTJ, one of my favorite pastimes—besides overanalyzing social interactions and wondering why people enjoy small talk—is studying patterns in human behavior. And because I also enjoy making my hobbies needlessly complicated, I decided to see if different Myers-Briggs® personality types had specific tastes in movies. Naturally, I started with INFJs, because if there’s…
If the Enneagram types were countries, where would you belong? Imagine stepping off a plane and instantly feeling like the entire place just gets you—the values, the vibe, even the way people greet each other. Would you find yourself in the hyper-disciplined efficiency of Japan? The warm, open arms of Senegal? The brooding, poetic solitude…
