Curt Doolittle

Category: Business, Organization, and Management

  • THE SOCIAL CLASSES OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES – Scientific Software desig

    THE SOCIAL CLASSES OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES

    – Scientific Software design and development

    – Operating Systems Design and Development

    – Enterprise Software Product companies

    – Consumer Software Product companies

    – Business Software companies

    – Small Independent software companies

    – Internal Operational software

    – Consulting business operational software.

    – Internal IT staff.

    – Temporary (or long term) staffing.

    – Short term staffing.

    – Independent software consultants.

    – IT independent consultants.

    Varies a bit by company. But basically it’s driven by scarcity.

    (I need to write this list for economists, because it’s pretty funny.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 10:07:00 UTC

  • THE WORKPLACE NEEDS, AND YOU NEED, OVERSING Empirical reputations. Oversing cons

    http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-changing-world-of-work-4-signal.htmlWHY THE WORKPLACE NEEDS, AND YOU NEED, OVERSING

    Empirical reputations. Oversing constructs an empirical reputation.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 03:06:00 UTC

  • COLLEGE CERTIFIED, THEN FILTERED, NOW IT DOESN’T EVEN DO THAT And you want to te

    COLLEGE CERTIFIED, THEN FILTERED, NOW IT DOESN’T EVEN DO THAT

    And you want to tell me that every individual in the academy isn’t influenced by (top academics) or driven by (the remaining academics and the bureaucracy) malincenitves?

    As far as I can tell, a middle class (moral) upbringing, and your work ethic, determine your productivity in the workplace.

    The best universities largely just filter. The remainder are largely diploma mills. And we have now lost the generations that sought to convey 5000 years of western intellectual and cultural development in truth-telling.

    GOOGLE DATA

    –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether of the new economy. It is noteworthy, then, that Google has found that academic success has little correlation with being productive in the workplace. Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013:

    -One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.s (grade point averages) are worthless as criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.-

    Signaling an ability to grind through four or five years of institutional coursework is no longer enough; the signaling needed to indicate an ability to create value must be much richer in information density and more persuasive than a factory model diploma.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-16 03:03:00 UTC

  • THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ACADEMY –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether

    THE SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR OF THE ACADEMY

    –“Google is widely viewed as a bellwether of the new economy. It is noteworthy, then,that Google has found that academic success has little correlation with being productive in the workplace. Lazlo Bock, Senior Vice President of People Operations at Google, made the following comments in an interview published by the New York Times in June 2013:

    –One of the things we’ve seen from all our data crunching is that G.P.A.s (grade point averages) are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. Google famously used to ask everyone for a transcript and G.P.A.s and test scores, but we don’t anymore. We found that they don’t predict anything. What’s interesting is the proportion of people without any college education at Google has increased over time as well. So we have teams where you have 14 percent of the team made up of people who’ve never gone to college.–

    Signaling an ability to grind though four or five years of institutional coursework is no longer enough; the signaling needed to indicate an ability to create value must be much richer in information density and more persuasive than a factory model diploma.”–

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-15 23:57:00 UTC

  • EXPERIENCE WITH INTENTIONAL IMMORALITY IN BUSINESS (worth repeating) Before I ha

    EXPERIENCE WITH INTENTIONAL IMMORALITY IN BUSINESS

    (worth repeating)

    Before I had my personal moral reformation, and rejection of what I learned in university, I considered going into the private espionage business. (Such business does exist, and is totally above board when it is used to uncover illegal activity. You can hire security firms that have specialized groups that perform the work legally.)

    After working with the Koenigs, the Golubs and the Seminoffs (all descendants of Russian jews) and filing racketeering charges against the Koenigs, turning the Golobs in to the justice department for wire fraud, and turning Seminoff in for Tax Evasion and Fraud, it seemed like I was making a career out of stumbling into illegal financial activity, and I might as well take the moral high ground.

    Instead, I did the opposite, which was to search for only moral people to work with, and avoid the scumbags entirely. It was a good personal decision. But the awareness of how damned evil some people were never left me. And I always felt that my moral business partners were naive idiots that I had to make sure didn’t hurt themselves or me. (I failed by the way.)

    I used to tell these stories to everyone. I don’t anymore. I prefer to focus on the positives. But there is a whole world of shitty people out there using every financial and legal scam in the book to hook crook and steal from others. And you would be surprised that that list includes some of the most prestigious legal firms in america with whom I have sat on boards, and listened to explicit instructions on how to get away with theft.

    My ancestors were puritans and I suspect that it’s a genetic bias. But I have come to detest the institutionalization of immorality imposed on my people during the 20th century.

    And so I am fighting back at grand scale.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-08 02:23:00 UTC

  • ASTON MARTIN DID IT. The car industry is slow. And really, not very good at desi

    https://www.astonmartin.com/en/live/news/2015/03/03/aston-martin-dbx-concept-challenges-conventionDAMN. ASTON MARTIN DID IT.

    The car industry is slow. And really, not very good at design. Cars should be designed by crowdsource whenever possible.

    A few years ago, a small company crowdsourced the design of a rally car. And it looks like a Camaro.

    Now if we can get the existing Camaro in AWD, a 2″ Lift, and Oversized Tires, the car gods will have spoken.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-04-07 03:34:00 UTC

  • Thanks to my friends, particularly Roman, and V for support over the past 90 day

    Thanks to my friends, particularly Roman, and V for support over the past 90 days. Thanks to my staff for all you have done. We are very close now to v1.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-28 11:19:00 UTC

  • STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT I advocate project-based

    STATING THE OBVIOUS: WHO TO HIRE FOR MIDDLE MANAGEMENT

    I advocate project-based business organizations (dynamic teams), not department based organizations (bureaucracies). Project organizations produce a market for good behavior internally. Bureaucracies produce a market for bad behavior.

    A departmental manager (a monitor) is always inferior to a project manager(who has concrete objectives in a finite time period.).

    Unfortunately project organization requires constant learning and adaptation, and there are vast portions of the population who must learn by doing – and some very slowly.

    Internal project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have played sports in school.

    External project managers with emphasis on customer service, hire women who have experience in sales, and who are attractive, and know how to employ it.

    External project managers with emphasis on risk mitigation, hire men who have even just a little sports experience, and some sales experience.

    Women without a feminist chip on their shoulders generally improve the work place.

    Gay men without a chip on their shoulders, generally improve the work place as much or more so than women.

    The more I work on propertarianism the more I see humans as a distribution of sense-perception systems that transmit information by voluntary exchanges. And the more useful I see various perceptions, as long as the customer satisfaction, profitability, and individual responsibility take precedence over personal interest.

    Even from someone who was not serious about team sports (wrestling is pretty individualistic), it is obvious that if you do not play some sport or other, you are very likely an incomplete person.

    The military is a man’s best team sport. Football is a decent substitute. You get hurt if people don’t hold up their end. Scoring goals in soccer is not a substitute for being tackled. And in business, and in life, we are all hurt when others don’t hold up their end.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-21 03:31:00 UTC

  • Biz. Unfortunately, I cannot rush understanding. It proceeds apace. It is done w

    Biz.

    Unfortunately, I cannot rush understanding. It proceeds apace. It is done when it is done.

    Producing deliverables in a timely fashion that satisfy requirements but which are not correct is not something I have ever been able to do.

    And, supplying information is not he same as supplying insight.

    So we soldier on.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-20 00:42:00 UTC

  • HELP: STUPID ACCOUNTING QUESTION – PROJECT ACCOUNTING Costs, Expenses and ‘Float

    HELP: STUPID ACCOUNTING QUESTION – PROJECT ACCOUNTING

    Costs, Expenses and ‘Floats’.

    1) A cost is something that does not get consumed in the process of producing revenue.

    2) An expense is something that does get consumed in the process of producing revenue.

    3) A project expense (a ‘float’) is neither an expense nor a cost, but a loan from the company to the customer, which is billed to the customer as if it is revenue.

    Now, given that in project accounting, one can be reimbursed (float), or one can bear the expense (expense), but rarely if ever bear a cost, what is the proper sequence for booking transactions?

    In the states we book project expenses as revenue, even though it distorts both revenue and profitability. In the international market, I’m not sure I understand how this is generally done.

    I actually should know this and I don’t, or I’ve forgotten.

    Thanks in advance.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-19 10:36:00 UTC