I've made notes over the years. But not going to post those now. Let me put a little bit of it out there that's fresh in my mind. Being typical NTJ's its scrap and fragments pieced together. Bare in mind Ni jumps a lot, I'm working quickly and not going to make it sound nice and there will be minor errors etc. Try not to get hung up on that. I also go back and re-edit posts and take out errors and improve iteratively. I may do this with this one.
If you really interested I suggest you order a copy of
Seeking Wisdom. I haven't read it but I ordered a few copies for our Board of Directors as a parting gift. I skimmed it and there is agreement with my world view. It's just more efficient if I let someone else do the speaking so gifting it makes sense. I am not interested in seeking credit or pride etc.
The "NTJ platform" aside here is my personal view:
The general gist is life is an emergent phenomena. Purpose is key. Why? Why? Why? Started asking that when I was 5 years old. Breaking everything down into
fundamentals. Why must I go to school mom? So you can learn. Why must I learn? So you get a job. Why do I need a job? So you can earn money. Why do you need money? So you can eat food and care for yourself. Why do i need to eat food? So that you can live. Why should I live? Thats where I stopped as a teenager. The answer to that is this. I could come up for an evolutionary reason for wanting to live but I wanted something outside the perspective of life itself.
So I framed it as existence only make sense if you existing, hence if you weren't existing it wouldn't make any difference what your view on existing was. Hence it's better to exist from existence's point of view. Existing as a utility function then needs to be maximised. So how do I go about increasing existence? And all goal and subgoals can be created from the ground up. And I started building ground up.
In any equation there may be 100 variables but 1 or 2 variables invariable makes the most different to the answer if its changed. I look for these and store them across all domains. I simply ignore lesser variables, while the NTP's entertain them. That's why we differ in speed and utility and that's why NTP's are more precise, produce more rigorous theory. However their Achilles heel is seeing how these models all fit together and which models are true outside themselves and which are not true, that's where an NTJ is stronger. They are good however at spotting weakness withing the model itself and improving on that.
I look for concepts everywhere, I just soak them up, for example I see Zarathustra made a comment about dog training, I skimmed BF Skinner but just take the core principles and then try apply it. The more I can collect and the faster I can apply them an link it all together the better I am able to model reality. The better I am able to model reality the more successful I will be. I appear to "always be right" to people around me, not because I am,
but simply because I know my position and zone of competence and almost always stay within it. I absolutely love being proved wrong, I
honestly do. I've trained myself to like the feeling and enjoy it. Because it represents a mystery or a reason why I modelled reality incorrectly. I then need to go update the model or perhaps revisit assumptions or relook at the inputs.
I combine everything into a single model of reality. I don't see it as disconnected models. Everything flows from evolutionary and emergent perspectives our behaviors, our biases, our delusions or perceptions our very existence etc.
NTJ is a convergent platform. This means that our views are shared amongst NTJ's
very roughly, there will be differences but they get ironed out as the platform is objective reality and especially if the NTJ's. And that exists outside our minds. So when I pick up a book written by an INTJ, eg Munger or Tony Hsieh, Sun Tsu, Rand (if we ignore the strong childish Fi) or Nietzsche everything just clicks.
Disclaimer this is more a personal post. I'm not arguing for or against any positions. Just sharing my views as per Nicodemus request and up the reader to make of it what they will.