Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • (Thank you for all you do. You’re smart, funny, talented, articulate and all-aro

    (Thank you for all you do. You’re smart, funny, talented, articulate and all-around amazing. 🙂 )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-26 04:32:00 UTC

  • CRASHING DRIVABLE ART I have spun my Ferrari twice, and I know how to drive it,

    CRASHING DRIVABLE ART

    I have spun my Ferrari twice, and I know how to drive it, and I drive like a grandmother. They look good, but they are very hard to control. Lambos are even worse and have even less visibility. So if you want the thrilling experience of driving get a Porsche with all wheel drive or an Audi sedan with the same. If you drive a supercar realize that most of them don’t have the computer equipment in them to compensate for the fact that they operate beyond human mental and physical capacity. I keep seeing these douchebags crash, split, spin, roll, pole and tree their cars because they simply do not learn how to manage the physics of that power and weight combination. You do not drive a supercar impulsively. You drive it like a race car: you PLAN your gas, gear, brake and curve out on the visual horizon. You pilot them more than drive them. It’s work. If you don’t want to work at it, and just want to feel the rush then buy something that operates at human scale. Like a Miata. Don’t wreck a drivable piece of art. It’s immoral. 🙂

    https://www.google.com/search?q=ferrari+crash&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-24 15:51:00 UTC

  • FYI: I don’t agree with all the links I post. Some of them are just ‘interesting

    FYI: I don’t agree with all the links I post. Some of them are just ‘interesting’. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-24 04:22:00 UTC

  • GETAWAY – EDEM RESORT – UKRAINE Roman Skaskiw and I are in a Ukrainian paradise

    http://edem-resort.com.ua/WRITER’S GETAWAY – EDEM RESORT – UKRAINE

    Roman Skaskiw and I are in a Ukrainian paradise whose existence no doubt is thanks to some Oligarch somewhere or other – because there is no way this slice of heaven can turn a profit without long term love – palaces like this are priceless, and the fees are absurdly cheap. Exceptional art in all public spaces too. Even the beef shashlik is made from soaked tenderloin – a smart chef. We’ve been planning a writing holiday for a long time and managed to find a few days to run away from other responsibilities to work for a bit. Roman gave me great advice today which lessened the burden. I also added a new chapter on acquisitiveness. And with last week’s revelation, my outline and argument are done. Its all a matter of sentences and references now. But sentences are hard. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-23 20:27:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-23 04:59:00 UTC

  • (diary)(thoughts on radicalism) When you’re the CEO of a popular services compan

    (diary)(thoughts on radicalism)

    When you’re the CEO of a popular services company with fortune 1000 customers, you really can’t be a radical. You can write controversial things, if couched correctly, but you really don’t have all that much intellectual freedom. You can’t be ‘angry’. You can be controversial but not angry.

    Most CEO’s are pretty cautious. But I was surprised. First, you stick out to customers. Second, *if you’re willing to say naked truths in public you are more likely to say naked truths to your customers*. So that is what happened.

    I much prefer writing as a radical. It’s just more… honest. I feel more honestly myself than I have ever felt before. Unconstrained.

    I kind of think that the controversial aspect of my work will actually help my new company. Because the product’s managerial point of view is libertarian – self organizing. It’s a revolutionary way to run a business.

    I’ll just spin it as crazy visionary nonsense and I’m sure it will work out.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 12:44:00 UTC

  • Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday tooooo youuuu! Happy birthday dear frank H

    Happy birthday to you!

    Happy birthday tooooo youuuu!

    Happy birthday dear frank

    Happy birthday tooooo youuuuu!

    Hugs man. Love you bunches. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-21 10:29:00 UTC

  • THANKS To those that have, thanks for all the private messages you’ve given me i

    THANKS

    To those that have, thanks for all the private messages you’ve given me in support of one thing or another. It always makes my day. Really. -Cheers.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 14:04:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : ADAPTING – BECOMING UKRAINIAN 🙂 I just walked by a woma

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : ADAPTING – BECOMING UKRAINIAN 🙂

    I just walked by a woman taking out the trash in heels. Now, for most of my adult life I would have demanded she let me take it for her, completely unconsciously. But locals think helping like that is kinda weird if you offer to help them and dont know them personally. I’ve actually seen old ladies get mad ,and strike at men for trying to help them. Which is just the chivalrous thing to do.

    I don’t think women grok that paying us in status for helping them is a way for us to get status (and attention) by acts of service without getting status (and attention) for acts of violence and aggression. I mean, we are gonna do one or the other, or we going to completely check out of society and play video games.

    Controling males is a central problem of human organization. Men change the state of things. They are going to change the state of things. The only question is, what state will they change them to?

    Women create a market for attention, care, affection and sex.

    What market are women currently creating for men?

    And before you intuit the answer to that, you might want to look at the data….

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-20 08:08:00 UTC

  • Ack. Nothin’ but research all day today. Can’t seem to write a useful thing. But

    Ack. Nothin’ but research all day today. Can’t seem to write a useful thing. But it is interesting, from my drafts, that if you start writing a prioristic arguments in operational language it becomes very clear what they really mean. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2014-06-18 12:36:00 UTC