Curt Doolittle

Category: Business, Organization, and Management

  • You can learn how to ‘operate humans’ in one year.

    (FB Timestamp) [Y]ou can learn the three fundamental models of project management, basic accounting, basic contract law, and micro economics (incentives), in a single course in about a year, and be good at all of those in two. If you can write a contract, run a project, manage the finances, and understand incentives of everyone involved you know the plumbing of the entire world system. Everything else is the craft you employ under that model, and your dress, manners, diction, vocabulary, hygiene, and how much of an ass you are (or not). It’s not difficult to be competent.

  • You can learn how to ‘operate humans’ in one year.

    (FB Timestamp) [Y]ou can learn the three fundamental models of project management, basic accounting, basic contract law, and micro economics (incentives), in a single course in about a year, and be good at all of those in two. If you can write a contract, run a project, manage the finances, and understand incentives of everyone involved you know the plumbing of the entire world system. Everything else is the craft you employ under that model, and your dress, manners, diction, vocabulary, hygiene, and how much of an ass you are (or not). It’s not difficult to be competent.

  • You can learn the three fundamental models of project management, basic accounti

    You can learn the three fundamental models of project management, basic accounting, basic contract law, and micro economics (incentives), in a single course in about a year, and be good at all of those in two. If you can write a contract, run a project, manage the finances, and understand incentives of everyone involved you know the plumbing of the entire world system. Everything else is the craft you employ under that model, and your dress, manners, diction, vocabulary, hygiene, and how much of an ass you are (or not). It’s not difficult to be competent.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-01 17:58:00 UTC

  • Can anyone who has Andrew Torba’s (Gab.com ) personal email PM it to me? Thanks

    Can anyone who has Andrew Torba’s (Gab.com http://Gab.com ) personal email PM it to me? Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2018-11-01 17:20:00 UTC

  • The Limit of Commercial Self Interest

    (FB Timestamp) THE LIMIT OF COMMERCIAL SELF INTEREST RE: Facebook, Twitter, Google, Quora, Stack Overflow, Medium, and all the rest of the ‘censors’…. [T]he secret to the Success of the West in both the Ancient and Modern worlds, is the speaking of uncomfortable truths, no matter the cost, and regardless of impact on the competence, self image, status, and dominance hierarchies.

    • Honor instead of Face.
    • Duty instead of Security.
    • Reciprocity instead of Proportionality
    • Order instead of Equality.
    • Truth, Beauty, and Goodness instead of Harmony.
    • Heroism vs Obedience
    • Aristocracy of Everyone vs Peasantry of Everyone.

    It is this ‘disregard’ for ‘face’ that produced all of western civilization’s excellences: truth, jury, rule of law, reason, empiricism, science, technology, medicine, markets, and the fastest adaptation of culture, economy, law, and polity to circumstance that is possible for mankind. By appealing to a world commercial market, where “Truth No Matter The Consequences” is not only unknown but anti social, and in many cases unethical, immoral, and highly offensive, we have let into our great civilization the antithesis of what made it great: Paying the price of offense to produce all that flows from telling the truth – from opinion, to testimony, to scientific fact. These companies, out of commercial self interest, are spending down the accumulated normative, cultural, traditional, intellectual, and institutional capital that we carefully accumulated over 3500 years of European evolution and development. The most intolerant wins. One can be tolerant of Truth and Opinion and create western civilization. Or one can be intolerant of Truth, and Opinion and reverse western civilization. What we are seeing is yet another invasion of intolerance, (first judaism and christianity), and now Judaism (Separatist Sophism), Postmodernism (Secular Christian Sophism), and Islam(Supernatural Conquest Sophism). Every single act of suppression of dissent against those who take offense is a THEFT of the capital of western civilization. In economic terms this is called: The Privatization of Public Capital – what we call ‘The Commons”. As I undrestand the situation, all of these companies are guilty of not only of (a) sedition, (b) conspiracy (c) massive privatization of the commons for commercial self interest, (d) use of proceeds and platform to coerce the state via the public to continue this privatization of the commons. This is theft. Period. Plan and simple. And sedition as well.

  • More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses

    October 28th, 2018 2:20 PM [M]ore From My Portfolio of CEO Responses 1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are you volunteering to get it done?” 2) “Really? I have simple means of testing demonstrated preference: He who does, chooses. He who doesn’t, doesn’t.” 3) “Really, now you don’t understand why I did that? Why do you think I would do that” (Silly reason follows.) “Actually, here is why I did it ….” (Stunned) (Teaching Moment Succeeded). 4) “Great idea. Given that we must, and do, at all times make use of all available capital, What should we not do in order to pay for doing that?” Teaching People to fish never ends. Why? They actually want someone to catch the fish for them.

  • More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses

    October 28th, 2018 2:20 PM [M]ore From My Portfolio of CEO Responses 1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are you volunteering to get it done?” 2) “Really? I have simple means of testing demonstrated preference: He who does, chooses. He who doesn’t, doesn’t.” 3) “Really, now you don’t understand why I did that? Why do you think I would do that” (Silly reason follows.) “Actually, here is why I did it ….” (Stunned) (Teaching Moment Succeeded). 4) “Great idea. Given that we must, and do, at all times make use of all available capital, What should we not do in order to pay for doing that?” Teaching People to fish never ends. Why? They actually want someone to catch the fish for them.

  • More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses 1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are

    More From My Portfolio of CEO Responses

    1) “You’re right. We should do that. Are you volunteering to get it done?”

    2) “Really? I have simple means of testing demonstrated preference: He who does, chooses. He who doesn’t, doesn’t.”

    3) “Really, now you don’t understand why I did that? Why do you think I would do that” (Silly reason follows.) “Actually, here is why I did it ….” (Stunned) (Teaching Moment Succeeded).

    4) “Great idea. Given that we must, and do, at all times make use of all available capital, What should we not do in order to pay for doing that?”

    Teaching People to fish never ends. Why? They actually want someone to catch the fish for them.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-28 14:20:00 UTC

  • Leadership should peak by organizational scale, and AFIK it’s closer to 130s. AF

    Leadership should peak by organizational scale, and AFIK it’s closer to 130s. AFAIK leadership forms in every socio-economic class at the 15 and 30 marks.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-10-27 19:48:12 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056271362975825923

    Reply addressees: @AdamaZvi @robinhanson @DegenRolf

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056243677306200064

    IN REPLY TO:

    @AdamaZvi

    @robinhanson @DegenRolf Doesn’t leadership peak at iq 120? And say we definite good leadership as judgement and effectiveness combined. Then it seems like iq fits the same pattern.

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1056243677306200064

  • A consulting company acts as an agent that is outside of the political process

    October 26th, 2018 9:30 AM [M]ost of the time, a consulting company acts as an agent that is outside of the political process, so yes. Conversely, almost universally, the upper 1/2 of any consulting organization is far better than the upper 1% of any department they work for. The reason is simple: all companies that hire consultants within a 3 to 5 year window, are solving the same problems in all their customers within different political and incentive structures – and so none of the problems are ever difficult – only getting them done in the political structure of the organization. The problem is simple economics: people in companies invest in what they do, and change, success, or falure, threaten those investments (their property). A good consultant discovers these investments and promotes them and illustrates how they contributed to the current success. Unfortunately for example, most tech innovation other than improving user interface workflow tends to be a waste of money and all strategy and marketing and strategic consulting is just a way of circumventing a management organization malinvested in a prior.