Paul Graham Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Paul Graham? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Paul Graham from Computer Science and what is the personality traits.
INTP (XwX)
Paul Graham personality type is INTP, and he’s also a bit mysterious about his career. He once said:
I’ve had periods of time where I’ve thought I wanted to be a professional programmer and sometimes I’ve even had jobs as a programmer and sometimes I wasn’t. That’s been kind of confusing… Maybe not confusing, but it’s been strange.
Frankly, I think the confusion is irrelevant. The more relevant question is “why is he not a professional programmer?”
I’m not sure why Graham became a lawyer. I know that when he was in college, he was obsessed with writing software. He used to tell me that he spent 25 hours a week studying computer science when he was in college, and that it was the greatest experience in his life. It sounds like he went to law school to get away from computers.
But if Graham is an INTP, then he probably got an average grade in law school, which means he probably got average grades in college. He would have had to take some decent computer science courses to get decent grades in those courses. But he didn’t take computer science classes in college.
Paul Graham is an English-born American computer scientist and programmer, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, author, and essayist.
