By Adam Brownstein in Tokyo, Japan
Book of the Week: The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing by Merve Emre
On a misty Big Sur morning in 1995 I sat with 50 other GMs @ Noah’s New York Bagels in a tranquil lodge overlooking the sea. We were there for our baking empire’s first (and, as it happened, only) offsite. It was there that I was administered the Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator assessment for the first time. I was qualified as a “ENFP”, generally gregarious, highly empathic and “eager to please”. I have since taken it four more times (Microsoft, buuteeq.com, Booking.com and Partnerize).
I somehow imagined that Myers-Briggs was concocted in an ivy-laced ETS lab in Princeton. The origins, noted with great detail and cunning insights by Merve Emre, are different and wildly intriguing.
Also . . .
Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid (The Atlantic)
Tokyo begins recognition of same-sex partnerships (Japan Times)
Hyperscalers Report Quarterly Earnings (Clouded Judgement)
To Bless the Space Between Us (Jonathan Sacks)
The Tokyo Yenta 