Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • Yeah, it’s “Go Year” I think

    Yeah, it’s “Go Year” I think.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-25 11:20:00 UTC

  • NEW PROPERTARIAN MEETING IN EUROPE!!!!Updated Jan 25, 2020, 8:16 AM

    NEW PROPERTARIAN MEETING IN EUROPE!!!!Updated Jan 25, 2020, 8:16 AM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-25 08:16:00 UTC

  • Updated Jan 24, 2020, 7:18 PM

    Updated Jan 24, 2020, 7:18 PM

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 19:18:00 UTC

  • “Curt. There’s nobody else on the Internet who actually takes people’s questions

    —“Curt. There’s nobody else on the Internet who actually takes people’s questions. It’s EXTREMELY impressive.”— George Ward

    Hugs brother. It’s ’cause I love my people not my career.

    And, P gives me a very substantial advantage in explanatory power over other moderates, conservatives, and libertarians.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-24 10:18:00 UTC

  • I don’t have a classroom so I use the public as my classroom. It was an experime

    I don’t have a classroom so I use the public as my classroom. It was an experiment. it’s been ridiculously rewarding, even if the number of overconfident ignorant young men is … tedious.

    We have a course going at the Institute where people singn up and get the content as I release it. It’s a drip process but it works.

    I use a particularly interesting teaching method (king of the hill) more suitable for men so I attract a certain audience.

    And so far the project is largely complete. It’s a matter of editing it down (simplification).

    Some people (example: Taleb) publish a book every few years, and finally get to their philosophical project. Some people publish a book every ten years. I’m sort of on the ten year plan. And if you look through history (kant etc) it takes about ten years. Duchsene took ten years. It takes time. The first book is done but I don’t want to release it first. It’s too targeted to libertarians. The second book is at 80%+. The constitution is somewhere in the 50% range. It’s getting there.

    I don’t see the point in lecturing until something this complicated can be published. Although we will undoubtably start this year.

    And I’m far better in person when teaching real time than I am on video – it’s just my nature to interact with the class. So I assume that the videos of those presentations will be more effective than the online content, the courses so far, or the book.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-23 12:11:00 UTC

  • “It wasn’t until I found Curt that I actually felt hopeful again.”— Every time

    —“It wasn’t until I found Curt that I actually felt hopeful again.”—

    Every time I hear something like that it energizes me to work even harder.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-23 10:27:00 UTC

  • We have gone from 5000 followers of this account before the purge, with over 100

    We have gone from 5000 followers of this account before the purge, with over 1000 open requests, to under 2000. So, who are we not reaching that we should be?

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-22 20:14:00 UTC

  • JUST SHOW UP. The way I’d put it is: 1. Showing up is more important than unders

    JUST SHOW UP.

    The way I’d put it is:

    1. Showing up is more important than understanding perfectly or being able to predict what will happen.

    2. If in doubt, show up.

    3. If we show up, we win.

    4. The more that show up, the more easily we win.

    —John Mark

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-22 19:59:00 UTC

  • Invictus’ problem is a function of stress over circumstances. No passionate pers

    Invictus’ problem is a function of stress over circumstances. No passionate person can help but have his stresses bleed over into daily life. This is one of the reasons philosophers don’t marry and have children, or move to be alone – becaue it is the only place for pure freedom.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-22 10:55:00 UTC

  • Richmond reset my brain a bit on strategy so I’m not talking about it yet. But t

    Richmond reset my brain a bit on strategy so I’m not talking about it yet. But the drive down and back, plus the pure spirituality of ‘all our men’ gave me needed think time.

    Mostly on european aesthetics and commons and our ‘group-think’ (formation sensitivity?) And how that’s possibly a cognitive european bias.

    Second was how evident it is that I love our people but that they just … they just need answers. I need understanding but they just need answers.

    I used some of it to re-listen to Fukuyama on bureaucracy and that gave me a few ideas too – not the least of which is that he doesn’t understand the correlation between anglo adversarial government and sovereignty. He doesn’t grasp that the inefficiency is a trade off for adaptability. But he’s right that the left has destroyed rule of law. He just doesn’t see that it’s fixable. He comes close but doesn’t get there. Sometimes it’s better to re-read these long works a few times because you get fresh ideas out of every read.

    Source date (UTC): 2020-01-21 12:10:00 UTC