My Interests and Hobbies (INTJ)

# General Activities

- Reading
- Thinking
- Doodling / writing
- Planning
- Strategizing
- Browsing
  - Instagram
  - Books
  - Magazines
  - Blogs
  - Twitter
  - Youtube
- Exploring new subjects in an intentionally shallow manner (Ne; move on fast)

# Specifics

- Finance
  - Investing
    - Equities
    - Cryptocurrency
    - Watching investments grow: Dopamine
  - Personal Finance
    - Financial planning & FIRE
- Japan
  - Japanese language
    - Translating Japanese poetry
    - Watching Japanese movies
    - Listening to Japanese music
  - Watching Japanese TV shows
  - Reading Japan history
- Korea
  - Korean music
  - Korean singing shows that feature moving artists like Joseph Butsuo
- Humor and funny things
  - Youtube videos
  - Compilations
    - Weather person and news bloopers
    - Try not to laugh
- Films and TV
  - Old TV News broadcasts
    - Falkland islands
    - Late 1980s geopolitical
  - Old TV shows from BBC or PBS
    - Tech-related
      - Beyond 2000
  - Columbo
  - Rockford Files
  - Star Trek (TOS, TNG, Enterprise, ST Continues)
  - Stargate Universe
  - MacGyver
  - Frasier
  - Old BBC shows
    - Dr. Who
    - Random BBC mysteries
    - A Most Ungentlemanly Act
    - The one where the Jurassic Park guy is a master spy
- Tanks and army and war
  - Historical
  - Modern
    - World military forces
- Podcasts
  - Project Moonbase
  - Spycast
  - Personality type
  - Unsolved mysteries
- Listening to Music
  - Dance music
  - Chiptunes
  - Live Music
    - Stop Making Sense
    - Sting
- Creating Music
  - LMMS
  - Renoise
  - Reason
  - Sunvox
- Organization and cleaning
  - Find a small thing that bugs you, or a shelf that's cluttered.
    - Then just think about it. What could fix the problem?
- Writing
  - Responding to writing cues
  - Journaling
- Philosophy
  - Traditional sage-style advice
    - Tao Te Ching
  - Developing own ideas / theories
- Psychology
  - Personality type
  - Archetype
  - Jung
  - Various psychological models
    - Information metabolism
    - Socionics
    - Etc.
  - Reddit mbti or intj
- Transhumanism
  - Philosophical & Technological
    - Mormon Transhumanist Association
  - Institute of Noetic Sciences
- Martial arts
  - Chinese (Tai Liu, Northern Shaolin)
  - Judo
  - Kenpo
    - Perfect Weapon, good old action film
  - Shorin Ryu Karate
- Art interpretation
  - Subconscious meaning / hidden meaning
  - Viewpoint on society
  - View of author
- History
  - Japan
    - Postwar era
    - Gov't and intelligence agencies
  - China
  - USA
  - England
    - Codebreakers
    - 1800s
      - Aubrey / Maturin series of books
      - Darwin
    - Pirate Age
      - Blackbeard, like the "Crossbones" TV series; watched season 1
  - Civil history
    - Washington state
    - West coast
  - Military history
    - WWII
      - Pacific theater
        - Atomic bombing
      - Europe
      - Abwehr
    - Vietnam
      - Green Berets in
      - CIA in
        - Air America
      - Navy seals in
    - Falklands Conflict
      - SAS
      - SBS
    - Modern
      - Operation Barras
    - Aircraft
      - F-4 Phantom
      - F-117
- Cold war
  - Special units
    - Special forces
    - CIA
    - KGB
  - Space Race
    - Sergei Koriolov
    - Race to the moon
    - ICBMs
  - DEW Line
- Programming
  - Rebol / R2 / Red
  - System scripts
  - Productivity scripts (reviewing old journal entries, frameworks, etc.)
  - Utilities--backup, etc.
- Software
  - Linux
    - Trying new distributions
    - Xubuntu
      - Panel apps
    - System scripts
      - Bash
  - Emacs & Vim-type learning is fun
  - Text entry and organizing software
  - Trying out new software
  - Reading news about software updates
    - Github, Linux Uprising, Freshcode.club, HN, etc.
    - LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape--bigger software updates
- Hardware
- Retro stuff
  - Books
  - Computers
    - C64
    - Unix systems
  - Shorthand
- Watercolors
  - Youtube watercolor tutorials
  - Watercolor pencils
  - Painting military subjects
  - Painting blue skies
  - Painting ad-lib faces
- Drawing
  - Doodling
  - Drawing slowly with pens
    - Fineliners
      - Drawing maps
    - Ballpoints
      - Faces - ad lib faces
  - Drawing military things
  - Drawing sci-fi things
  - Drawing faces and heads
  - Drawing vehicles
    - Aircraft
      - Unique - Short Skyvan, etc.
  - Concept art
  - Drawing lettering
- Exercise and fitness
  - Calisthenics
  - Bodyweight conditioning
  - Martial arts
  - Flexibility
  - Strength
- Games and board games
  - Minecraft and minetest
  - Flight sims
  - Making one's own board games
    - Dungeon Difficulties D20 (RPG)
    - Sniper: Black Sea Crisis
  - GMing simple RPGs and CYOA games with my kids
  - Network game "net" from simon tatham
  - FPS games + sniper role
  - Sandbox games
  - Let's Plays on Youtube
    - Like Solus Project with Just Jeremy
- Simulation
  - Making my own simulations
  - Dice rollers
  - Playing with dice
  - Generative art
    - Generating scenarios
    - Generating planets
    - Etc.
  - Sending out space probes.
- World Building
  - Writing about different worlds / cities / etc.
  - From infrastructure to people
  - People writing in journals, etc.
  - Map making
  - Graphics making
    - Vehicles
    - Buildings
    - Costumes
    - In MS Paint even
- Optimization
  - What space around me needs to be improved?
  - What system in my life needs improvement?
  - How can I improve it?
  - How can I make it more efficient?
- Visiting the library
  - Planning
  - Random sections
- Gospel studies
  - topical guides and bible dictionaries are great starting points
    - TG: Time was very interesting
- Architecture
  - Presentations on e.g. architectural design and practice on Youtube
- Subconscious studies
  - Visualization
  - Imaginary friends
  - Telling and analyzing stories
  - Subjective scrying
- Radio
  - Ham Radio / KM6NHH
  - AMSAT
  - CW & QRP
  - SSTV / ATV
  - Theory / Propagation
- Toys / toy collecting
  - Toy cars (Matchbox, Hotwheels, 1/38s, etc.)
  - Toy aircraft
  - Fidget toys
  - Toy photography