Curt Doolittle

Author: Curt Doolittle

  • How Does The Role Of A Startup Cto Change Over Time?

    Depends upon the technical dependency of the business. You start with designing the product or offering, and building a team. You end up selling to customers, administering talent, constraining budgets,  allocating in investments, and briefing (educating) the management team.   If you educate the rest of the management team well enough then your job should simplify dramatically over time. If  you fail to do that, your job becomes worse over time, and your political power declines.

    https://www.quora.com/How-does-the-role-of-a-startup-CTO-change-over-time

  • How Dedicated Should An Entrepreneur Be To Their Start-up, How Much Is Too Much?

    Sacrifice time, sleep, security, health, wealth, relationships – everything.
    The only limit is your ability to do something or not. These sacrifices must be balanced against the rewards.  So, there is only whether a) you CAN endure sacrifices and b) whether the sacrifices you make are worth the return to YOU.

    https://www.quora.com/How-dedicated-should-an-entrepreneur-be-to-their-start-up-how-much-is-too-much

  • Which Articles Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights Are Negative Rights?

    1-2 Address who is included in these rights.

    3-20 Address negative rights. These rights prohibit everyone, including government, from violating the life, body, movement, association, speech,  and property of individuals in various ways.

    21-29 Address positive rights.These are ambitions that all governments are chartered with attempting to achieve.

    30 closes prohibiting exception.

    https://www.quora.com/Which-articles-of-the-Universal-Declaration-of-Human-Rights-are-negative-rights

  • RULE OF LAW SUFFERING CALAMITOUS COLLAPSE Well, that started when the liberals u

    http://www.france24.com/en/20130608-assange-us-rule-law-suffering-calamitous-collapseAMERICAN RULE OF LAW SUFFERING CALAMITOUS COLLAPSE

    Well, that started when the liberals undermined the constitution through the 14th amendment. At that point, we lost rule of law. It’s just taken this long to go from originalism: the constitution is a binding legal document – to ‘it’s a living document’ which is code for, it means whatever we want it to mean – to it’s a guideline for us, but a democratically elected government can pass any law it desires to – to there is no law, only whatever we can get away with.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-09 08:43:00 UTC

  • MARXISM DISTILLED: “For Adam Smith you have the division of labor and the invisi

    MARXISM DISTILLED:

    “For Adam Smith you have the division of labor and the invisible hand; for Ricardo, comparative advantage. Marx just seems to be an example of a thinker who took one incredibly wrong idea (The Labor Theory of Value) and fully worked out all of the logical consequences. Given that there’s no reason to believe in the labor theory of value, then most of Marx is just a complicated (although perhaps ingenious) dead end.” – Urstoff, from econlog

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-09 02:18:00 UTC

  • NOT SURE YOU CAN TEACH IT – IT’S GENETIC But this is what makes successful entre

    http://onforb.es/YSVQppI’M NOT SURE YOU CAN TEACH IT – IT’S GENETIC

    But this is what makes successful entrepreneurs tick. Relentlessness.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-08 06:45:00 UTC

  • HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘

    HOMOPHOBIC CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS

    I’m from New England. English heritage. We’re ‘huggy’. Still familial. And teasing is still part of our language.

    In business I pretty much hug everyone. Despite what people say about being uncomfortable, demonstrated approval both reduces people’s fear of you as ‘the boss’ and creates a more relaxed atmosphere.

    In every company I use and try to propagate this kind of affection. It works.

    So, here in Ukraine it’s just not OK. I hugged a guy yesterday and he said “this is making me uncomfortable”. I laughed. Said it was cultural.

    But you don’t see three drunk guys walking down the street with their arms around each other here.

    I like our way better. Men are men here. That’s true.

    But if you’re confident in your masculinity then you shouldn’t be offended by false threats to it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-08 05:47:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL MANAGEMENT STYLES : UNCOMFORTABLE LIBERTARIANISM So, I have all these U

    CULTURAL MANAGEMENT STYLES : UNCOMFORTABLE LIBERTARIANISM

    So, I have all these Ukrainian guys now. And, it’s hysterical fascinating trying to get them out of hierarchical thinking. In America, if yo say “you’re a partner” and give someone stock, they pretty much act like an owner, and relegate you as CEO to judge and jury.

    But here, it’s pretty hard. Just no concept of it. Right ethics, but no mental model. They guys are capable but just can’t comprehend it.

    I have all these things I say like:

    “It’s unscientific for me to think I know all the answers. It’s just that I have the need to make decisions in real time with the information at my disposal.”

    Or “My ego isn’t tied up in being right. My ego is tied up in developing a product that sells.”

    or “I don’t think I know anything. Argue with me. Either you’re able to make your case or you’re not. If do I’ll just say…. Damn. You’re right. Watch me. I say it all the time.”

    Or “I gave you this feature and the direction to use your judgement in developing it. Why do you think I did that? To trip you up? Or to leave open the possibility that I’m wrong, and that you might improve on my ideas?”

    Or (my favorite) “I have a very hard time believing that you’re not smart enough to make that decision without my input.”

    Or “If I wanted people to just do what I tell them, I’d hire idiots. You don’t think I hired you, and paid you above market rates because you’re an idiot, do you?” (Love that one. No way out of it.)

    They are getting their slowly.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-08 05:41:00 UTC

  • OUCH “I was once challenged as to why the economics department didn’t teach Marx

    OUCH

    “I was once challenged as to why the economics department didn’t teach Marxist economics, I responded “we let the English department do that.”

    – Alex Tabarrok, GMU

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-07 22:14:00 UTC

  • STOPPING THE BIG DOMINOS Of course, we would argue that the problem is actually

    http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2013/06/keeping-big-dominoes-from-falling.html#.UbCbZitp4w0INTERVENTION: STOPPING THE BIG DOMINOS

    Of course, we would argue that the problem is actually allowing the small dominos to constantly fall. Government creates big dominos. The market works constantly to destroy them.

    GOVERNMENT CREATES BIG DOMINOS – AND THE BIGGEST IS ITSELF.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-06-07 04:25:00 UTC