In this episode, Joel and Antonia unpack the old stereotype that sensors are "basic" while intuitives are somehow the upgraded version, and they trace where that bias comes from and why it's flawed. They dig into why Myers-Briggs gives intuition a special weight by naming it directly, why so many sensors end up mistyping as intuitives, and how the world is shifting away from being built for either type. The conversation closes on a bigger idea: as technology pushes everyone toward more intuitive, pattern-based thinking, sensing wisdom and staying grounded in physical reality may matter more than ever.
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Sensing vs Intuition - Are Sensors Really More Basic Than Intuitives? | Podcast 648
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Lol midway through (1 hour in), talking about IT as sensor-dominated. One of my direct reports (I manage a systems admin team) told me in a 1:1 call, “Eric I don’t think like you. I don’t think like a programmer. You tell me what needs to be done and I’ll do it, just spell it out and I can handle it.”
It occurred to me the way our jobs are going that he was more or less telling me he wasn’t suitable for his job, as our job is increasingly moving towards “infrastructure-as-code” and coding in general requires a certain intuitive sense of “architecture” to use it well. But in a more literal sense, I think he was expressing his Sensing one-sidedness, which also did not rub me well as his manager. The scope of what I can assign him to do is quite limited versus some other employees who think big, have lots of questions about possibilities in every task they do, etc. So I would also say that one-sidedness overall is the biggest problem between this dichotomy.
I’ll also add, I do not think AI boosts sensor-one-sided types. I have run this experiment with my direct reports. The very sensor-oriented ones just don’t seem to get the same level of “leverage” out of it as I (and some of my more intuitive coworkers) seem to. But then perhaps this is less about sensing and more about avoiding the one-sidedness; having both sensing and intuition running at full thrusters works best with AI, the ability to query it at a high level while critiquing the details.