Personality
I'm an introvert. Commonly INFP or INFJ on the Meyers-Briggs personality type indicator. With the Keirsey Sorter that makes me an Idealist, either a Healer or a Counselor. It's a relatively rare personality type.
From Wikipedia: "Healers are introspective, cooperative, informative, and attentive. They are highly compassionate and empathetic to the needs of others. Healers care deeply about a few favorite individuals or causes and they desire to bring about peace and integrity to their companions and to the society at large. They want to heal the problems that trouble individuals and correct the conflicts that divide groups in order to bring health to themselves, their companions and to the society." "Healers tend to be private individuals who have a strong sense of right and wrong and an idealistic worldview. They are deeply committed to things that are positive or good and may be inspired to make extraordinary sacrifices in attempts to achieve their ideals. They are prone to errors of fact as they follow their feelings more than they follow logical analysis. However following their feelings also means that Healers seldom make errors of feeling." "Healers are adaptable, patient with complicated situations, and welcoming of new ideas and information. They are impatient with routine details. As they are aware of people’s feelings, Healers relate well with others. They are also comfortable working alone given their private nature. Healers have an interest in scholarly activities and often have exceptional language skills."
Profession/Passion
I'm a software developer, and sometimes I play at being a writer. Ultimately, I enjoy creating things: software, stories, sketches, toys, doo-hickeys, widgets, doo-dads, and gadgets.
Perhaps unfortunately, most of this creative talent involves language, and within the physical realm I'm better at de-creation (i.e., taking things apart).
Being a "creator", I find myself deeply interested in issues with "intellectual property"--copyrights, trademarks, and patents--concepts which grant artificial monopolies on ideas and expressions, supposedly for the purpose of promoting the arts and sciences.
I believe these priveleges are being abused, and that the balance between the public and the monopolists is horribly skewed toward the monopolists.
It feels like copyright is becoming perpetual, and that nothing is being returned to the public domain, despite corporate interests (e.g. Disney) continually mining the public domain to their advantage. And by using words like "intellectual property" and "piracy", the content owners (who are usually not the content creators) are waging a war of memes, trying to warp what we take for granted. They're trying to eliminate fair use, legislate and restrict technology, and desire nothing less than to control our culture by creating a "right" to commercialize it. They want to legally "preserve" their business model.
DRM should stand for Digital Restrictions Management, not Digital Rights Management.
Patents are likewise being abused, with parasitic companies forming whose sole business model is to accumulate patents and extort license fees from those who actually "create" things. This does not promote the arts and sciences. You also have patents being granted for such things as software algorithms, business processes, and DNA. Corporations have to build large patent portfolios to "defend" themselves against other corporations. A lone individual with few or no patents cannot compete with this. Patents are supposed to protect inventors, but with so many "trivial" patents being granted, it's hard to create anything complicated without infringing on a patent somewhere. Even if you can prove that an existing patent should be bogus, perhaps with prior art, can you afford to? Over and over again?
I don't have that much of a beef with trademarks and service marks, though with domain names, celebrities and companies somehow seem to get dibs on anything that even hints at their names. I should be able to own a http://this-company-sucks.com/ website, and I should be able to use the name "iPod" in a different industry than Apple, say if I wanted to market a car called the iPod.
For my part, I try to bring sanity to the world by supporting public libraries and by promoting open source (free as in speech) software: open-ils.org