Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • A YEAR IN KIEV. THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT. Just a short thank-you to all

    A YEAR IN KIEV. THANKS FOR YOUR LOVE AND SUPPORT.

    Just a short thank-you to all my friends and family, Facebook and ‘non-digital’, who have supported me over the past year while building a startup abroad. You might think little things don’t matter. But they do. They matter a great deal to me.

    About a year ago, I’d come out of surgery after being pretty sure my latest health problem would be the end of me. In that state of mind, I was crazy enough to take my friend Max’s advice on building and taking a product idea to market. And smart enough to take my friend Roman’s advice on Ukraine as a place build it. So thank very much Max, and Roman. It’s all on you. 🙂

    Aside from adapting to a new environment, which isn’t that easy for my inner aspie, I had a whole host of problems. My cash flow was only half of what I’d anticipated, so I had to finance the business out of liquidating investments rather than just cash flow. I had a very hard time finding talent largely because I can’t speak the language. And the first few people we brought in, just couldn’t do the calibre of work we needed. And it’s not like I’m willing to do something mediocre. 🙂

    In May I started upgrading the staff, and in June I expanded it considerably. And since then it’s been a completely different experience. (Thank you for the great work guys.) We have a category-killer on our hands that will make every other product look antique by comparison, and give the analysts and us something fun to talk about. We are still in the middle of it. But I love not having to make compromises. And we’re not making them. 🙂

    As for living here. Any expat goes thru cycles. Of course, I share the silly parties, and crazy stuff a bit. But that was partly my “I’m still alive” phase nine months ago. I’ve tamed since then. Despite making all the right ‘connections’ here that would allow me to live a crazy life I dont live that crazy a life. I miss my family and friends of course. I miss ‘consuming’ a bit – it’s really hard to get anything good here. I miss driving. And movies. But the state of affairs in the world, and in the states in particular, is so exasperating I feel privileged to spend it in this culture, which is as beautiful as any culture can be. Thank you Veronika for taking care of me. 🙂 Thank those of you who helped me get started: Oksana Kavetska in particular. And thank those of you who think they didn’t matter: Alesiya, Elena and Valeriya. You’ve been like my family. 🙂

    Here in Kiev, I am closer to many of my European friends. Most of whom I feel more cultural kinship with than my fellow Americans. I can’t share time with them. But knowing that they’re at least REACHABLE is something that gives me comfort every day. (Aaron, Andy, Vincent, PT, Joakim, Paul and the rest. I can’t get claim hong kong is close tho. 🙂 ) So thank all of you (you know who you are) for your friendship. And seeing you at PFS recharged my batteries. I’d have to list thirty names here so I can’t. But if I say ‘The Bad Boys’ we all know who we are. Love all of you. 🙂

    Aside from my business, personal life, and health recovery, my intellectual work has progressed exceptionally well this year. And it’s just very hard to do this kind of thing without the people who nudge me along (Frank, Skye, Roman, Troy and dozens of others who are too many to list here.) Thanks in particular for my newest friends (David in particular. Darcy and many others. Frank. I’ll never stop thanking you. I would not have done this without your patience with teaching me to speak in simple direct language over a decade ago.) As for others, If I haven’t listed you here specifically please assume that I just thought of you – cause I did. I promise. (Yes. You too.) 🙂 I have an amazing long term memory. 🙂

    In Seattle a few old friends in particular always remain supportive (Tammey, Shannon, Todd, Emily, Apryl, Greg, Peter, Jason in particular). Thank you for every kind word.

    So another year. A year I wasn’t sure I had. And it’s one of the best years of my life. And it’s one of the best years, for the reason any year stands out: because of the people near and far who you can share it with.

    If you don’t have this same feeling. Try to get it before you think your interior lights are about to go out. Every day is better. Every person you interact with is more wonderful. Every achievement more joyful. Every failure, less important. Its one of our great tragedies that we fear death when there is so little to fear. But we take the time and people in our lives for granted. The clock ticks.

    My daughter, sisters, cousins, mother, friends, PFS friends, Seattle friends, Ukraine friends. Thank you for making this year possible, and enjoyable.

    Hopefully 2014 will be even better for all of us.

    Hugs and thanks.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 15:36:00 UTC

  • LIBERAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND BIOLOGY Interesting book. I like my less emotionally loa

    http://www.anonymousconservative.com/one.pdfLIBERALISM, LIBERAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND BIOLOGY

    Interesting book. I like my less emotionally loaded description of the male and female reproductive strategies better. Although we end up at the same point: which bias produces the best society? Or less pragmatically, which do you and I want to tolerate?

    [Quote]

    “As an r-type psychology, Liberalism is not some super-intellectual, ultra-compassionate psychology designed to produce a perfect utopia in which no one ever suffers. Indeed quite the opposite. It is a simple, biologically imbued psychology, designed to exploit conditions of free resources by fostering the reproduction of specimens which most aggressively satiate their basest urges, without contributing to the success of their society. Promiscuity, single parenting, early onset of first intercourse, and conflict and risk avoidance through cowardice. This is the society which Liberalism seeks to foster. Worse, it does it not for intellectual reasons, but out of a desire to satiate a simple, base, r-type biological urge.”

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    But other people are coming at the problem similarly. I don’t think anyone other than myself has expressed this commensurably as property rights. But at least the revolution is slowly happening.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 14:16:00 UTC

  • (SILLY) Ours is, “Nemo me impune lacessit.” – No one provokes me with impunity.

    (SILLY)

    Ours is, “Nemo me impune lacessit.” – No one provokes me with impunity.

    Great family motto. Sort of, “Don’t do unto me, what you would not have done unto you twice.” Very… martial.

    Don’t let anyone fool you. Revenge tastes sweet. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 13:55:00 UTC

  • EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST. Coming as the extinction of se

    http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/09/the-silence-of-our-friends-the-extinction-of-christianity-in-the-middle-east/THE EXTERMINATION OF CHRISTIANITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

    Coming as the extinction of secular democracy to a city near you!

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:35:00 UTC

  • WE FLOURISHED Population “…expansions likely predated the emergence of agricul

    http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/09/pre-farming-population-expansions-aime.htmlWHY WE FLOURISHED

    Population “…expansions likely predated the emergence of agriculture and herding. So either agriculture/herding happened earlier than we think, or the observed population expansions were more about climate change than the neolithic.”

    Pretty simple. We have largely benefitted from the ice age receding. That benefit gave us agriculture and domestication, which eventually gave us trade and eventually, industrialization.

    Now what happens if it gets cold again (soon) ?

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:33:00 UTC

  • AND BUST ADOPTION OF AGRARIAN TECHNOLOGY “in contrast to the steady population g

    http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2013/10/neolithic-boom-followed-by-later.html?spref=fbBOOM AND BUST ADOPTION OF AGRARIAN TECHNOLOGY

    “in contrast to the steady population growth usually assumed, the introduction of agriculture into Europe was followed by a boom-and-bust pattern in the density of regional populations.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:30:00 UTC

  • EXAMPLE OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT SPREADING Now, I think most of us know that hi

    EXAMPLE OF THE DARK ENLIGHTENMENT SPREADING

    Now, I think most of us know that history is a complex interaction of societies and technologies. I think most of us know that ‘white folk’ had a much wider territory after we developed the chariot, horse and bronze. I think we know that our ancestors interbred and were eventually subsumed by the civilizations that surrounded them.

    I’m just more interested in what happens to western identity once our omnipotence is erased by technological equivalency and declining relative population. We’ve exported our way of thinking to the rest of the world. And our way of thinking (technological) is, in other than islam, the way of the world.

    But what will happen to our identity?

    —quote—

    “After recent advances and discoveries the only reason people aren’t laughing and pointing at historians is because The Silence covers the total idiocy that they preached just a generation back.

    We are taught that our forefathers never bathed and lingered in caves all through the Middle Ages, and then came The Renaissance.

    We are taught that during this glorious Renaissance scholars discovered Classical Writers and, reading Aristotle and Galen and so forth, we began to emerge from the Caves of Darkness into the glorious New World that existed in the Middle East.

    At the very moment they are recoloring the Egyptians, the whole history they are reciting, all came from Egypt, has been so discredited that The Silence cowers even mentioning it.

    The historical …revision… will come .. when the full implications of the Renaissance Myth are put together.

    Not only did Western Civilization NOT come from discovering Classical Writings, but every single advance in our thought, from medicine to math to engineering, has had to beat down a solid wall of Galen’s Medicine and Aristotle’s …nonsense….”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:18:00 UTC

  • ECONOMIC THINKING TRUMPS PSYCHOLOGIZING All emotions are changes in state of pro

    ECONOMIC THINKING TRUMPS PSYCHOLOGIZING

    All emotions are changes in state of property. By describing actions rather than their effects, we can clearly understand what is occurring in any interaction.

    Praxeology allows us to test incentives. But if we understand the full spectrum of what people treat as their property, we can use praxeology to understand precisely what voluntary and involuntary transfers are going on, and when emotions are used to lie in order to force an involuntary transfer.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:07:00 UTC

  • (WHACKY) “You need to check into a good 12-step recovery program for Anti-White-

    (WHACKY)

    “You need to check into a good 12-step recovery program for Anti-White-Male…”

    How do people come up with these things? lol Ridiculous. But I’ve gotta keep that one around for when I’m too lazy to really debate.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 11:04:00 UTC

  • 1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING. “My own fav

    http://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-did-british-left-reject.htmlBY 1950 THE LEFT’S OBJECTIVES WERE ACHIEVED. SO THEY RESORTED TO LYING.

    “My own favoured explanation is that the Left realized that its traditional appeal – focused on the abolition of serious material poverty (starvation, homelessness, exposure to life-threatening cold etc.) and equal opportunity according to merit rather than birth.

    “By the 1950s it was apparent that these had already happened – so the Left needed a new agenda, and started systematically lying about reality.

    “This was the ‘turn’ from Old Left to New Left – old Left being about prosperity and opportunity – New Left (which became Political Correctness) about favourable outcomes for designated victim groups, and about ‘oppression’ of these groups conceptualized as psychological suffering rather than life-threatening deprivation. “

    Source date (UTC): 2013-10-06 10:51:00 UTC