I'm sorry for the long quiet stretch. I've been heads down building (the hours just disappear when I get into it) and traveling with the family, but I've really missed being in here. Before I get back to the color and personality posts, I want to catch up. How's your summer been? I'll go first in the comments with mine, but I'm curious about yours: if you had to give this summer a name, what would it be?

Time to get back to what this group is really for: throwing ideas around and pulling them apart together. One morning a few weeks back, I uploaded a photo of my face to a free AI color tool, and it came back saying I was a Spring, 87% confident. In dozens of analyses over the years, not one person has ever put me in Spring. So I gave the exact same photo to every other free AI color tool I could find. (I like to try to break these things before I trust them.) Six came back with an answer. Between them: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Four seasons from one face in about ninety minutes. Same file, no edits. I wrote the whole experiment up on ColorPraxis, my new Substack: the tools that landed near my real coloring, the ones that scattered, and how completely sure every one of them sounded. Has an app ever handed you a season a real analyst never would? What is your level of confidence in the AI apps out there, and how does that differ from asking a platform like ChatGPT directly?

Hi all! Slowing down today and, for those that know their best color attributes, thought it would be fun to share out favorite color to wear. Share your season or tonal combination and a swatch of your favorite color. I will go first. As a Dark Autumn who can borrow from Deep Winter, my favorite color to wear is a burnt orange. And yes, this is a proof point towards the idea you often subconsciously already know your "season." Burnt orange is a deep, warm shade that combines the vibrancy of orange with a subtle infusion of brown, giving it a rich, earthy quality. It's positioned in the red-orange side of the color wheel, exuding a sense of energy and enthusiasm while maintaining a cozy and inviting feel. https://www.figma.com/colors/burnt-orange/

📊 UPDATE: You can now add your entry directly to the live tracker at mbti-color-season.netlify.app — just scroll down to the entry form. The dataset and charts update in real time! ________________________________________________________________________________ Many of you have already shared your type and season somewhere in the group (the welcome thread, comments, DMs). I'm asking you to drop it here again so I can have it all in one place and start looking at patterns. 👩‍🎓🔍 What I hope to explore, to start, is whether type correlates with anything measurable on the color side (or vice versa). I'll share patterns back with the group as the data set builds and use what comes in to shape the next round of research questions. If you have a pattern you're curious about, drop it in the comments. This is a collective effort. 🧪 The grid starts here. In the future, I will tag new members here so they can continue to add to the data. Drop your information below using this format: MBTI type | color season | any contested or alternate results Example: ESTJ | Dark Autumn | also tested as Deep Winter 👇 If you only have one of the two, drop what you know. Partial data still counts.

I went quiet last week and I owe you a quick explanation for that. Last Friday was my last day in my corporate job. Twenty-plus years in pharma market research, and nine with my most recent company/team. I am only 52 but decided to take the big jump into the unknown. The unknown, while a bit scary, is where the best things happen, right? [No seriously...right????] It was a lot more emotional than I expected, which is a very un-ESTJ thing to admit. (My Te would like me to tell you it was a smooth and well-executed transition. My Si would like me to tell you I cried more than once....which I did...many times) But I'm back now, and I am excited to have the time now to really focus on this community. No more carving time out in the early morning or late evening or even between meetings time. Actual time. So before I build out what the next few months look like here, I want to know what you actually want more of. What threads do you want to pull on? What's sitting unresolved for you from what we've covered so far?