Curt Doolittle

Category: Business, Organization, and Management

  • TEACHING PROPERTARIANISM ATTN: Michael Andrade Michael, At one point you offered

    TEACHING PROPERTARIANISM

    ATTN: Michael Andrade

    Michael,

    At one point you offered me advice on how to structure teaching propertarianism. (But I can’t find it)

    Since I’m pretty much done with the project, and just working my way through organizing all my notes and drafting the book, it seems like a good time to offer a class, generate some additional demand, and maybe learn something myself from students and followers.

    I can think of sort of three layers of doing it.

    1) the ‘idiot’s guide so to speak that covers the main topics but avoids the epistemology and all the analytic arguments. There are a limited number of basic concepts. I can describe them as historical narratives in general terms that most people can grasp. I can cover them in a dozen or so 20 minute conversations. I am pretty sure this is easy to do by video. It’s just ‘watch and learn and ask curt questions in the forum or chat’.

    2) the social science guide, which walks through the entire work as a history of incentives. This is rationally rigorous, and touches on the problem of truth without getting into the formal reasoning or formal writing. This is a sort of college level course I think. This course is longer (I don’t know how much longer) and includes Applications: there are about 30 significant ethical issues in the field of politics and each of these takes about six to fifteen minutes to cover. I think these subjects require users to perform a little hand written work – not multiple choice. What I’ll be looking for is the ability to remember the sequences (spectrums) so that at the very least they walk away no longer thinking in ideal types, but spectra.

    3) the formal logic guide which teaches the epistemology across all the academic fields, how to construct propertarian arguments, how to write natural law. And how to structure constitutions and various forms of government. I see this as a seminar course of sorts where individuals who have taken the previous classes can learn how to argue against (and defeat) pretty much every standing argument. I do not see how to do this without being able to work with the people directly. It might be possible but it seems very hard to me. I would expect people to walk out of this able to be pretty scary in rhetoric.

    Can you give me some of your thoughts?

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-30 15:27:00 UTC

  • THEIR SCHOOL, OUR LUDUS A professor must work to justify expensive fees, to teac

    THEIR SCHOOL, OUR LUDUS

    A professor must work to justify expensive fees, to teach something that is of little value, to people who lack interest, most of whom don’t have ability, and none of whom want to invest the effort to master it, for an indulgence (diploma) that conveys endurance not competence.

    I get to teach something of profound value, to people who are interested, and who have the ability, and are willing to invest the effort to master it, in exchange for reciprocal learning, and the possibility of building a better world together.

    I teach every day. I don’t ‘grade’ students, I encourage, advise, and criticize (in the positive sense) their thoughts. And I get to discipline (trash) malcontents until they leave the classroom. We don’t have a schedule to meet. We don’t have to learn at the same rates. We just improve our fitness and technique until we can construct our arguments, demonstrate our understanding, and solve the substantive problems we face.

    There is no substitute for listening to discussion and debate, trying to survive debates, and if possible someday emerging as a champion of debates – on any subject.

    Together we run a Ludus: a school for gladiators.

    And our subject is Aryanism: the transcendence of mankind.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-28 09:48:00 UTC

  • We try to hire russian programmers in Ukraine, but they’re all just script-kiddi

    We try to hire russian programmers in Ukraine, but they’re all just script-kiddies. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-27 02:49:31 UTC

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  • Education. Curriculum Aristocratia

    SUBJECTS (still working on an integrated curriculum)

    • RULE – LIMITS / THE FATHER / ARISTOCRACY – SOVEREIGNTY
      Athletics and Aesthetics,
      Epistemology and Testimony,
      Psychology and Sociology
      Ethics and Law
      Politics and Rhetoric
      Economics and Finance
      Group Evolutionary Strategy and War
    • PRODUCTION / THE BROTHER / LIBERTY – FREEDOM Accounting and Arithmetic Logic and Mathematics Materials and Transformations Physics and Formulae Chemistry and Operations Biology and Models Sentience and Simulations
    • INFORMATION / THE MOTHER – EDUCATION Reading, Writing and Speaking Fairy Tales/Mythology, Reading aloud. Stories, and Summaries Biography and Diaries History and Essays Literature and Criticism Argument and Refutation
    • CARE / THE SISTER / SUBSIDY Manners and Morals Friendship and Play Partnership and Cooperation Mating and Sexuality Parenting and Family Medicine and Emergency Insurance and Caretaking

  • JUDGEMENT: MSFT pivots to Apple UI and OS pivots to MS Pros? #Apple just pulled

    JUDGEMENT: MSFT pivots to Apple UI and OS http://model.Apple pivots to MS Pros? #Apple just pulled a Microsoft 8/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:57:53 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907719267618816

  • JUDGEMENT:MSFT is failing in its pivot to restore content creators – Os=BoatAnch

    JUDGEMENT:MSFT is failing in its pivot to restore content creators – Os=BoatAnchor. “#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”6/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:56:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907400215330816

  • JUDGEMENT:Break APPLE/MSFT/SSUNG into Gamers,Pros,Office,Consumers and NEVER sac

    JUDGEMENT:Break APPLE/MSFT/SSUNG into Gamers,Pros,Office,Consumers and NEVER sacrifice higher for lower.”#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”5/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:56:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907358851092480

  • JUDGEMENT:MSFT trapped by archaic arch. Apple by empirical management. Samsung b

    JUDGEMENT:MSFT trapped by archaic arch. Apple by empirical management. Samsung by Asian aesthetic/psych.”#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”4/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:56:06 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907268031840256

  • JUDGEMENT:Failure of Apple/MSFT/SS over-commitment to momentum, and market is vu

    JUDGEMENT:Failure of Apple/MSFT/SS over-commitment to momentum, and market is vulnerable to disruption “#Apple just pulled a Microsoft”3/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:55:54 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907220229292033

  • JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY TO TRIPLE Apple share value. But no vision at Apple. Boxed i

    JUDGEMENT:It’s EASY TO TRIPLE Apple share value. But no vision at Apple. Boxed in at MSFT and Samsung. “#Apple just pulled a Microsoft.2/8

    Source date (UTC): 2016-11-24 21:55:46 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/801907183852146689