Curt Doolittle

Category: Business, Organization, and Management

  • PROPERTARIAN VIDEOS IN LONDON I have quotes from three studios – to produce two

    PROPERTARIAN VIDEOS IN LONDON

    I have quotes from three studios – to produce two videos this week.

    Not sure what topics they want me to cover. But this should be fun. 🙂

    Busy today.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-18 08:18:00 UTC

  • Nike Store. London. Oxford Circus. Terrible staff. Should have videoed her. Acti

    Nike Store. London. Oxford Circus. Terrible staff. Should have videoed her. Acting as if we are privileged to have her attention. The man next to her waiting on three different customers at once. This one, making us queue up and using her little order machine to make sure that no one asked questions, so that she handled as few customers, and as few questions as possible. Starting tomorrow I will video lousy clerks in London shops. I mean, my experience with this country is that ‘work’ is no longer part of the conceptual or behavioral inventory. But at least honestly still is.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 15:01:00 UTC

  • It’s amazing how slow service is at some restaurants until you start to walk out

    It’s amazing how slow service is at some restaurants until you start to walk out without paying. Then all of a sudden it seems like customer service is more important than chit chat. Walked out day before yesterday but left paid bill without tip on the front desk.

    Why is it that you have time to chase me for the bill, but not time to come to my table?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 14:58:00 UTC

  • Capitalism: Why Are Investors And Shareholders Profitseekers Alone?

    They are not.

    The data clearly demonstrates that companies operate at the minimum profitability that is tolerated by creditors, and that employees and management seek the highest extraction possible that creditors will tolerate. 

    Government bureaucrats demonstrate exactly the same behavior, but government, because it is a monopoly cannot be ‘corrected’ by the forces of competition, or in practice, by law, and therefore companies tend to have very short life spans, and even very big and successful companies have very short periods at the top, where governments can persist as corrupt enterprises indefinitely.

    https://www.quora.com/Capitalism-Why-are-investors-and-shareholders-profitseekers-alone

  • Capitalism: Why Are Investors And Shareholders Profitseekers Alone?

    They are not.

    The data clearly demonstrates that companies operate at the minimum profitability that is tolerated by creditors, and that employees and management seek the highest extraction possible that creditors will tolerate. 

    Government bureaucrats demonstrate exactly the same behavior, but government, because it is a monopoly cannot be ‘corrected’ by the forces of competition, or in practice, by law, and therefore companies tend to have very short life spans, and even very big and successful companies have very short periods at the top, where governments can persist as corrupt enterprises indefinitely.

    https://www.quora.com/Capitalism-Why-are-investors-and-shareholders-profitseekers-alone

  • I love my guys. I love them even more when I see yummy Github checkins. lol

    I love my guys. I love them even more when I see yummy Github checkins. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-08 10:35:00 UTC

  • Thanks to Roman Skaskiw just met some amazing guys who run , Rebbix, which is a

    Thanks to Roman Skaskiw just met some amazing guys who run , Rebbix, which is a software house in Kiev. They are doing it right. Quality people. Quality work. Respect for the craft.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-06 09:18:00 UTC

  • DEAR MICROSOFT : SELLING TRUTH I have never been able to get you to take my advi

    DEAR MICROSOFT : SELLING TRUTH

    I have never been able to get you to take my advice. Nor have most of the major advertising agencies succeeded in getting you to take their advice. We all fail because you think you are smarter than we are. Thats why we all agreed a long time ago to give you what you want until you fail, and become desperate enough to listen to us.

    Good advertising is the truth, spoken succinctly and elegantly. There are many other kinds of advertising, on which to ride your brand, but while beer can sell with something as simple as sex, and snacks with farcical humor, the more complex, expensive and serious the product or service, the more important is selling the ‘truth’.

    The truth is that Microsoft products help you get your work done. And if you want to make a living, then you need to know how to use them. Everyone else is selling cheap entertainment. You can’t play in the entertainment space unless you sell hardware, and even if you sell hardware, to take advantage of your brand, you must market to serious people doing serious things.

    There is margin in business products that can NEVER exist in consumer products. So stop trying to be fashionable for consumers, and be excellent for people who want to have a job, get work done at their job, associate with people who have jobs and get work done. And enjoy life with people who have jobs and get work done.

    The way to succeed is to tell this truth and trivialize all other products on the market. The global recession continues and will continue since the world economy has rebalanced its labor pools and today we live in that ‘normal’ state which we will live in for a very long time to come.

    As such, Microsoft products are for people who REALLY want a better life, and everyone else’s products are for people who want to pretend they have a better life – for a few moments at least.

    You would fare much better with TV ads showing EMPLOYED young people and unemployed people using non-microsoft products. Because honestly, that’s the truth.

    So please stop making a fool of yourself. You succeeded. You’re now IBM. So sell to grownups on the one hand. Sell to gamers on the other. Because those two audiences you can speak the truth to.

    Truth works, always and everywhere.

    Curt Doolittle

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-24 01:41:00 UTC

  • (Biz)(personal) The team says they will return from cyprus at the end of month.

    (Biz)(personal)

    The team says they will return from cyprus at the end of month.

    We covered the social messaging streams today. Three levels: just comments. Plus state changes. Plus everything else. The Ui sees everything but we only display what the user requests or some people would be flooded.

    Looks like we might have our analyst. But I need to write up the job requirements.

    Still need a pm/analyst to figure out work remaining and save me from getting buried again. Especially use cases for conversion to help.

    List all pages (ui elements) so we can add components and track text/help by component.

    Need editor / writer to deRussify our text everywhere. Then add help. Then task based help ( and videos). And to develop personas for each so marketing is implicit in the training.

    Still need designer. Minor but we do need it. Good overall but not yet elegant.

    Must design few UI widgets to improve ui for: time, schedule, approval, like/dislike/promote/demote, personal ratings. Small stuff but I want to be sure its right.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-23 13:26:00 UTC

  • We need a native english speaking pm/analyst for Oversing at Kiev salary levels.

    We need a native english speaking pm/analyst for Oversing at Kiev salary levels.

    I cant handle my two workloads. And I cant distract the devs. Anyone in Kiev know anyone, its a great job.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-07-21 09:00:00 UTC