Jan 24, 2020, 9:12 PM You can’t. Writing is a craft. Craft is a process of developing skills through trial and error. You can read say, Vonnegut on writing, Campbell on the monomyth, the basics of plot types, archetypes, points of view, how to research on locations, observe and write dialog by people from different social strata, and writing backgrounds for your characters. You can read (real) poetry (particularly Shakespeare) to learn the art of sentence building. But the start-middle-end of composing sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters, and stories and weaving them together while maintaining the reader’s interest in what is yet to be revealed by you is just something you have to practice. (Good writers tend to be quite smart, have worldly experience, and have something interesting to say that’s novel at least in some context unfamiliar to the reader.) I can write an argument like no other. An exceptional essay. An adequate screenplay. A less than adequate story. And a weak novel – but it is a matter of interests. To write a novel, or a story you need to have something to say that’s vaguely interesting, adequate interest in the subject, and adequate skill in the craft, and more than adequate art in retaining the reader’s attention.
Category: Business, Organization, and Management
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Q: How Can a Person Become a Great Fictional Writer in Just a Short Time?
Jan 24, 2020, 9:12 PM You can’t. Writing is a craft. Craft is a process of developing skills through trial and error. You can read say, Vonnegut on writing, Campbell on the monomyth, the basics of plot types, archetypes, points of view, how to research on locations, observe and write dialog by people from different social strata, and writing backgrounds for your characters. You can read (real) poetry (particularly Shakespeare) to learn the art of sentence building. But the start-middle-end of composing sentences, paragraphs, scenes, chapters, and stories and weaving them together while maintaining the reader’s interest in what is yet to be revealed by you is just something you have to practice. (Good writers tend to be quite smart, have worldly experience, and have something interesting to say that’s novel at least in some context unfamiliar to the reader.) I can write an argument like no other. An exceptional essay. An adequate screenplay. A less than adequate story. And a weak novel – but it is a matter of interests. To write a novel, or a story you need to have something to say that’s vaguely interesting, adequate interest in the subject, and adequate skill in the craft, and more than adequate art in retaining the reader’s attention.
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Mission
Mar 4, 2020, 2:30 PM We have one mission here among us: creating practitioners. This is what we want in collaboration forums. We have another mission for the masses. Look at the comments on john’s Constitution 1,2,3 video. That’s what we want there: solutions for common folk. We are the intellectual vanguard. We are doing perfectly. And we are doing it much more quickly than I assumed.
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Mission
Mar 4, 2020, 2:30 PM We have one mission here among us: creating practitioners. This is what we want in collaboration forums. We have another mission for the masses. Look at the comments on john’s Constitution 1,2,3 video. That’s what we want there: solutions for common folk. We are the intellectual vanguard. We are doing perfectly. And we are doing it much more quickly than I assumed.
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Beautiful Quotes from Bill Joslin
Mar 18, 2020, 12:34 PM
Bill: “We don’t try to beat the other leader. We try to find an opportunity to add value. We don’t negatively signal each other (other than to test an idea). There are people you won’t ‘jive with’ because of their state of development or goal, but stick with those who you get the most from. I found my role as a teacher, and especially for dads and families. That’s who I resonate most with. I didn’t plan it. Its what I bring to the table that adds value to everyone else.” Bill: “We have this assumption that burke and locke and others invent something new, but they were just recalling (as did aristotle) what was already embedded in the culture. These traditions were part of our traditional germanic and celtic law, and independent of greece (greeks tried them at scale). So the anglo enlightenment was trying to capture what they were afraid of what was being lost – just like socrates, plato, and aristotle.” Bill: “How do we write this down and preserve it so that it can rise again. Because the planet won’t have an opportunity to recreate the european tradition of sovereignty, reciprocity, and rule of law. So it’s up to us to preserve as much as we can so it can rise again. And that, to me, is a spiritual endeavour.”
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Beautiful Quotes from Bill Joslin
Mar 18, 2020, 12:34 PM
Bill: “We don’t try to beat the other leader. We try to find an opportunity to add value. We don’t negatively signal each other (other than to test an idea). There are people you won’t ‘jive with’ because of their state of development or goal, but stick with those who you get the most from. I found my role as a teacher, and especially for dads and families. That’s who I resonate most with. I didn’t plan it. Its what I bring to the table that adds value to everyone else.” Bill: “We have this assumption that burke and locke and others invent something new, but they were just recalling (as did aristotle) what was already embedded in the culture. These traditions were part of our traditional germanic and celtic law, and independent of greece (greeks tried them at scale). So the anglo enlightenment was trying to capture what they were afraid of what was being lost – just like socrates, plato, and aristotle.” Bill: “How do we write this down and preserve it so that it can rise again. Because the planet won’t have an opportunity to recreate the european tradition of sovereignty, reciprocity, and rule of law. So it’s up to us to preserve as much as we can so it can rise again. And that, to me, is a spiritual endeavour.”
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Institute and Cost of The Foundations Course
Mar 25, 2020, 3:14 PM (in response to message at bottom of post) 1 – The reason we charge money for courses is to filter people OUT, and keep people with it so they don’t waste instructor and peer time. People who don’t pay don’t stick with it. 2 – We accommodate those who who have less money – just ask. We are willing to “pay what you can”. 3 – We are not trying to build a student base yet. People in the course are those deeply interested in p willing to help us develop the core courses. 4 – We are, I am, building the foundations course very slowly. Releasing it as I can. And there are many things competing for my time because of the election year. The foundations course is by far the hardest course to create. It is not a matter of selecting textbooks, but writing it as we go along. Once the foundations course is done, we will use the income to split between the teacher and someone to administer the site and recruit professors for other content. This will let me (curt) work with professors on content rather than produce it all in competition with everything else I’m doing. 5 – The pricing is a test. Our target price is 200 per core course not 100. So people who are patient while we work on the courses get the discount for their patience. The average cost per online college credit hour is $400 (1200 per course). Our cost will be 100-200 per course. We will, of courses, produce videos for the average person once the courses have been tested with live students. So you can’t participate in the course for free but you may be able to watch some of the videos. Why? There is a difference between making you aware of something and spending effort educating you. 6 – The Institute is a test. It appears it is going to work. For it to work as we desire, we need a faster hosting platform. To do that we have to pay for it. To pay for it we need to charge for it. 7 – The ‘funded’ parts of the institute will hopefully attract donors if we scale. Donors will offset the cost of education for those with less money. 8 – The institute is organized as a non profit with goals of eventually obtaining certification. So we operate as if we intend to have certification. But we operate to distribut the message not to fund endowments. 9 – Our goal is to give you the best education in western civlization that is possible at a trivial price. And please try to be merciful. Donations pay for hosting and trivial costs. We are all volunteers. I have so much to do I can’t do anything but sprint every day all day long. This is a labor of love for our people by all of us. Everyone in the P community working to make our movement happen is a volunteer and none of us do it for money. Contact Us Message —“It appears (on the surface anyway) your goal is to educate people on the merits of this “movement”. Admirable indeed. However, I take issue with the high cost in dollars you are charging for this “education”. Logic would indicate that if your goal were to get this philosophy in to the mainstream, you would not be charging money to do so. The fact you do put a price tag on this seems to indicate your goal is to amass wealth, not educate the masses on the merits of this philosophy as you seem to make it appear. If indeed education of the masses is your goal, you would do so freely, or at the most, for a small fee to cover the operating cost. Even then a donation based system would be superior. So, I’m left to wonder: Scam? Gimmick? Con?……. While I am very interested in learning more on the subject of Propertarianism, I have little interest in filling greedy purses. If/when you place your message above your pockets I will return. Until then……….. Good Day.”— Privacy Matters not@given.org 172.77.26.XX (via Frontier Communications) CD: This kind of thing is what makes me want to stop working on the project, because these people don’t deserve it.
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Institute and Cost of The Foundations Course
Mar 25, 2020, 3:14 PM (in response to message at bottom of post) 1 – The reason we charge money for courses is to filter people OUT, and keep people with it so they don’t waste instructor and peer time. People who don’t pay don’t stick with it. 2 – We accommodate those who who have less money – just ask. We are willing to “pay what you can”. 3 – We are not trying to build a student base yet. People in the course are those deeply interested in p willing to help us develop the core courses. 4 – We are, I am, building the foundations course very slowly. Releasing it as I can. And there are many things competing for my time because of the election year. The foundations course is by far the hardest course to create. It is not a matter of selecting textbooks, but writing it as we go along. Once the foundations course is done, we will use the income to split between the teacher and someone to administer the site and recruit professors for other content. This will let me (curt) work with professors on content rather than produce it all in competition with everything else I’m doing. 5 – The pricing is a test. Our target price is 200 per core course not 100. So people who are patient while we work on the courses get the discount for their patience. The average cost per online college credit hour is $400 (1200 per course). Our cost will be 100-200 per course. We will, of courses, produce videos for the average person once the courses have been tested with live students. So you can’t participate in the course for free but you may be able to watch some of the videos. Why? There is a difference between making you aware of something and spending effort educating you. 6 – The Institute is a test. It appears it is going to work. For it to work as we desire, we need a faster hosting platform. To do that we have to pay for it. To pay for it we need to charge for it. 7 – The ‘funded’ parts of the institute will hopefully attract donors if we scale. Donors will offset the cost of education for those with less money. 8 – The institute is organized as a non profit with goals of eventually obtaining certification. So we operate as if we intend to have certification. But we operate to distribut the message not to fund endowments. 9 – Our goal is to give you the best education in western civlization that is possible at a trivial price. And please try to be merciful. Donations pay for hosting and trivial costs. We are all volunteers. I have so much to do I can’t do anything but sprint every day all day long. This is a labor of love for our people by all of us. Everyone in the P community working to make our movement happen is a volunteer and none of us do it for money. Contact Us Message —“It appears (on the surface anyway) your goal is to educate people on the merits of this “movement”. Admirable indeed. However, I take issue with the high cost in dollars you are charging for this “education”. Logic would indicate that if your goal were to get this philosophy in to the mainstream, you would not be charging money to do so. The fact you do put a price tag on this seems to indicate your goal is to amass wealth, not educate the masses on the merits of this philosophy as you seem to make it appear. If indeed education of the masses is your goal, you would do so freely, or at the most, for a small fee to cover the operating cost. Even then a donation based system would be superior. So, I’m left to wonder: Scam? Gimmick? Con?……. While I am very interested in learning more on the subject of Propertarianism, I have little interest in filling greedy purses. If/when you place your message above your pockets I will return. Until then……….. Good Day.”— Privacy Matters not@given.org 172.77.26.XX (via Frontier Communications) CD: This kind of thing is what makes me want to stop working on the project, because these people don’t deserve it.
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The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor
The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor https://propertarianism.com/2020/05/28/the-method-to-the-madness-our-division-of-labor/
Source date (UTC): 2020-05-28 03:55:27 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1265854169400987656
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The Method to The Madness: Our Division of Labor
May 6, 2020, 11:01 AM
—“I’ve not spent much of my life in “nerdland” so it’s interesting to observe the language and the operational detail/ complexity in your replies to me. It’s both fascinating and bewildering at the same time. … I am trying to reserve judgment on this form of communication as Curt obviously thinks it’s important for matters of P law and warrantied speech moving forward. It’s not that it’s not decipherable, I simply automatically find myself translating it into plain speech that is much more compact and universally understandable.”—by Stephen Wells
That’s a good thing. 😉 a) you can tell others in plain language, but; b) if someone comes along with a sophism or deceit you know that there is more behind it than simple language. Think of it this way:
P is math. Carpenters work by rules of thumb. We falsify false rules of thumb with math. My job and P’s job is to prevent false rules of thumb. Your job is to spread true rules of thumb. Together we win. hugs