Curt Doolittle

Category: Business, Organization, and Management

  • Can Vancouver, Bc Become A New Silicon Valley?

    It’s unlikely. (Spoken as someone who has purchased a Canadian tech company)
    1. Canadian work ethic and 100 hour weeks at startups are incompatible.
    2. Employment regulations place too high a burden on small businesses.
    3. Shareholder requirements in Canada are too burdensome for high risk opportunities.
    4. Consumer banking in Canada is exceptional but commercial banking is like dealing with the government – depressing, incompetent, and ignorant.
    5. The VC community (if you want to call it that) is not competent in tech – better in mining and resources.
    6. The university system has no peer to California or NY/Boston
    7. Canada lacks sufficient population to produce sufficient engineers, capable of taking sufficient risks. At present it takes 500M people in a market to produce competitive intellectual work products at the level of global powers.

    https://www.quora.com/Can-Vancouver-BC-become-a-new-Silicon-Valley

  • COMMON SHAREHOLDERS ARE NOT OWNERS OF ORGANIZATIONS Ownership: control. Ownershi

    COMMON SHAREHOLDERS ARE NOT OWNERS OF ORGANIZATIONS

    Ownership: control. Ownership (control) of WHAT? Ownership denies others use, consumption, transfer, and fruits. So what ownership do shares actually convey? RESIDUAL FRUITS.

    Shareholdership in practice provides a limited ownership to residual capital.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-06 06:36:00 UTC

  • A CORPORATION IS PRODUCED THROUGH LIMITED LIABILITY REQUIRING A MONOPOLY INSURER

    A CORPORATION IS PRODUCED THROUGH LIMITED LIABILITY REQUIRING A MONOPOLY INSURER OF LAST RESORT: STATE.

    A corporation CAN only occur in a state, because a corporation obtains limited liability from the state.

    One can form a partnership, and one can issue shares to distribute ownership in a partnership, and one can create all sorts of different shareholder agreements, but a corporation of any of the three popular types (llc, S, C) differ in the method of taxation, the means of management, and the extent of limited liability.

    in a private law society lacking a constitution, and lacking a state as an insurer of last resort, there is no such possibilty of limited liabiilty. The solutoin is to obtain insurers, and pay insurers fees instead of taxes in order to limit your liabilities.

    This is another example of how libertarian thinkers take advantage of the ignorance of individuals as to the nature of the state: it is an insurer of last resort.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-05 22:44:00 UTC

  • (Considering starting a politics and philosophy forum that selects articles ever

    (Considering starting a politics and philosophy forum that selects articles every day and provides an analysis of incentives and changes in capital. In other words, a balance sheet for any argument. I think this might be very educational and could become popular. There are a very small number of places where you can find grownup arguments. They are in the geostrategic and geo-economic papers and blogs. Almost everything else published every day is moral justificationism (Excuse making) and nothing more. )

    ——

    (unaccepted post in politics philosophy forum)(the host has been effort-spamming forums with uncriticized anti-trump propaganda pieces, which are just more articulate green frogs memes.)

    @James Ragsdale

    if [this] is a forum for discussion, then it’s a value. Which would require posting both sides of the debate. If this is a form for you to express your frustrations then it is no longer anything to do with theory policy and philosophy, but simply just emotional.

    Just create an “I hate trump” forum and put it there. But at present you’re not acting any differently from the alt-right-green-frog folks except your posting pseudo-rational propaganda instead of openly irrational green-frog cartoons.

    You have energy and a particular gift. And if you employ it honestly then you can make a contribution to the world.

    I’m honest about my work and my bias. (and yes, the fact that The Clinton Foundation defrauded me of $2M they said they would pay me for developing the greenhouse-gas measurement software, after we rescued their efforts in India at Microsoft’s request; and the fact that I have direct experience with these people – including Murdoch’s wife – might color my judgement a bit. These are ‘bad’ immoral, people for whom lying is simply a justifiable means of achieving their ends.)

    Anger destroys honesty. Half truths are lies. Half arguments are just half truths.

    Hence why I argue in the manner that I do: the only ‘good’ is exchange. The only ‘moral’ is non-imposition of costs.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-03-04 08:14:00 UTC

  • ( I love Apple. Sure, I pay my 300 bucks when I buy the computer, and two years

    ( I love Apple. Sure, I pay my 300 bucks when I buy the computer, and two years later, I take in my machine, get a new battery, a new display, and new keyboard – in four hours – without fear that the moron with do more damage than good, install a lousy part, lose my data, or make me wait two weeks. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-25 11:39:00 UTC

  • (I made my money with tech, understanding business is a problem of solving custo

    (I made my money with tech, understanding business is a problem of solving customer wants, learning how to sell to customers, and working my ass off – not by waiting people to come ask me for my self aggrandizing opinion. I’d be resentful as hell too. Because I had demonstrated the error of my judgement, and paid the price for it.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-20 14:48:00 UTC

  • TESTIMONIAL: THIS IS MY TARGET AUDIENCE, EVEN IF I’D LIKE MORE REACH FROM BL Wil

    TESTIMONIAL: THIS IS MY TARGET AUDIENCE, EVEN IF I’D LIKE MORE REACH

    FROM BL Wilson

    —“I’m a MENSA member (top 2%, generally seen as minimum 138 IQ), and your writings challenge me more then anything else I’ve tried to comprehend and I have a doctorate of pharmacology degree.

    I think I’m just too lazy to USE a large, expanded vocabulary, but I do understand almost all of what you post. I also appreciate how much you interact with your followers and fans.

    Anyhow, love your stuff. Never heard of propertarianism until you and Eli Harman. Always wanting to learn more.”—- BL Wilson

    YOU SHOULD MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW ELI

    Eli is much, much better than I am at teaching propertarianism and I probably (out of not wanting to impose upon the man I consider my partner) don’t push more people to him first.

    It actually bothers me that I don’t have more reach, but so many people volunteer to increase that reach that it isn’t necessary. So while I don’t take incomprehensibility as a criticism, I still wish I could.

    I don’t like to name names or show favoritism mostly because it seems to alter the behavior of my best followers, but the if you read the comments even casually you’ll see who else to follow.

    We have people across the spectrum.

    We are achieving our goals.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-20 14:34:00 UTC

  • THE ERROR OF THE ANCIENTS: TALKING BIZ WAS “OH, SO, BOURGEOISE” Aside from the c

    THE ERROR OF THE ANCIENTS: TALKING BIZ WAS “OH, SO, BOURGEOISE”

    Aside from the conquest of the west by byzantine mysticism, the central problem of western philosophy was thinking and ruling classes avoidance of the centrality of economics. We get philosophy to circumvent the traditional law. And we get science to circumvent the traditional church. And we finally get jewish pseudoscience and puritan outright deceit as ways of circumventing science, economics, an law.

    Economics really doesn’t come into being until smith’s combination of it with ethics, morality, and politics, or turn into a science until menger. Then just as the german scientific revolution is about to kick in, we get the wars, and the postwar era keynes replaces pseudoscience with obscurantist immoral mathematics that menger and smith had sought to avoid. Then the americans kick in – so proud they are to have found a way to destroy civilization faster using stocks as money.

    Lesson? Get your hands dirty.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-20 13:42:00 UTC

  • DEFINITION OF A CORPORATION A corporation: an organization of individuals and th

    DEFINITION OF A CORPORATION

    A corporation: an organization of individuals and their capital which the government has granted limited liability to the members by restricting personal financial liability to the capital invested in the organization in the event of failure. The reason states provide this limited liability is to encourage the risk taking necessary for entrepreneurial activity, and to reduce the power of the financial system from engaging in moral hazard in order to profit immorally. The state, as in all things, functions largely as an insurer of last resort.

    —“The modern corporate form of business organization evolved over many centuries. and despite a large body of historical research. its origins are still obscure. why. then, was the corporation invented‘? The early joint-stock companies in England embodied an important change in contractual form. Scholars have rationalized that these corporations evolved in response to an exogeneous increase in the demand for capital by the early foreign trading companies. Our complementary. supply-side hypothesis stresses the advantages that more readily transferable property rights held for the owner-managers of these early companies. These two hypotheses and the historical evidence on their relative importance will help explain the emergence of the corporate form of economic

    organization.”—

    Source date (UTC): 2017-02-12 16:11:00 UTC

  • Ragsdale – you have sort of stumbled on an interesting new media model…. hmmm.

    Ragsdale – you have sort of stumbled on an interesting new media model…. hmmm….. You’re functioning as a sort of editor across the board – a sort of ‘positive’ drudge report. Just as drudge has a ‘view’ thats desirable, you have an enditorial viewpoint that’s desirable.

    hmm…. It seems like you might be able to monetize this as long as you aren’t influenced by ad-dollars once you get going.

    Create news site. Copy drudge format (seriously) do it that simply. Maintain your sections of interest. Publish FROM there to the individual FB groups. Each post in each group ties back not only to a central FB group, but to the external web site.

    Spend 1k per month on search engine marketing.

    Try to attract advertisers.

    I think your POV is …. well it’s moral rather than purely scientific or purely political. You’re sort of filling that space.

    I think I get better news from you than I do from all my other blog subscriptions.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-01-02 11:51:00 UTC