Linus Torvalds MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Linus Torvalds? Linus Torvalds is an INTJ personality type in MBTI, 5w6 - sp/so - 583 in Enneagram, RCOEI in Big 5, LSI in Socionics.
"We need to not stagnate, I am always excited by trying something new and not getting too comfortable doing the same thing. I mean I've been working on the same Kernel for 32 years and that's a long time to work on one single thing but it's still interesting because it's NOT the SAME single thing because Linux is different from what it was 32 years ago. I actually often look for things where we can do new things and do things differently because it's easy to get stuck in a rut saying "This is working just fine" " -Linus Torvalds on: Torvalds Speaks: Rust's Impact on the Linux Kernel youtu.be/YyRVOGxRKLg Now he goes against innovation in here: "Innovation that this industry talks so much about is 𝕓𝕦𝕝𝕝𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕥. Anybody can innovate, don't think different, don't do this big innovation thing, screw that, it's meaningless, 99% of it is 'get the work done'. Innovation, new ideas and 'this will revolutionise', all that hype that's not where the real work is, the real work is in the details" -Linus Torvalds on: LOTS of People Have IDEAS. Can You EXECUTE YOURS? youtu.be/xZRo37r70lE 1:38 So this man is open to new experiences? He realizes that anyone who stays behind in age in technologies is going to stay behind. He really tripped me up with his not being a visionary quote (https://youtu.be/o8NPllzkFhE?si=-P4SaWXWu1eWXY3B&t=1019), so now I'm confused is he really an ISTJ or just an INTJ who is really focused on reality to make his vision come true? After all you do hear that Ni doms focus on one thing fully for a long time. To me he appears to be an INTJ who understood what matters, understood that details matter and wanted to share it. (P.S. Openness to experience is a term from the big 5 model)
Biography
Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28, 1969) is a Finnish–American software engineer who is the creator, and historically, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, which became the kernel for many Linux distributions and operating systems such as Android and Chrome OS. He also created the distributed version control system Git and the diving logging and planning software Subsurface. He was honored, along with Shinya Yamanaka, with the 2012 Millennium Technology Prize by the Technology Academy Finland "in recognition of his creation of a new open source operating system for computers leading to the widely used Linux kernel". He is also the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award and the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.
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