Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • IT

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722614/ENJOYED IT.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 21:22:00 UTC

  • IT IF YOU CAN FIND IT. I LOVED IT. (admittedly I miss that part of the world ver

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attraction_(film)WATCH IT IF YOU CAN FIND IT. I LOVED IT.

    (admittedly I miss that part of the world very much)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 21:12:00 UTC

  • (I am firmly convinced that monsters live in the basement of this 19th century h

    (I am firmly convinced that monsters live in the basement of this 19th century house – that used to be a carriage house for the Church next door. Bart is downstairs talking to someone. There is no one else down there. And this confirms my theory that there are monsters in the basement. And that he is attempting to keep them under control, and me ignorant of them, so that I am not afraid to do the laundry down there. And you know what? It’s not working.)

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 12:21:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-22 08:14:00 UTC

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  • “CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”— My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So

    —“CURT: ARE YOU A STOIC?”—

    My personal philosophy is not stoic, but martial. So I use heroism, duty and loyalty. I achieve mindfulness through working toward goals. I achieve security by trying to make or join an ‘army’.

    We all need philosophies that reflect our abilities. Not everyone finds joy in constant competition and the high cost of achievement and frequent failure. I find my philosophy difficult if not painful, but it is in that difficulty I find my power, conviction, and immunity from criticism. I do not consider it ‘suffering’ in the Nietzschean sense but Stress that makes you stronger in the sense Taleb means “anti-fragile”.

    But stoicism is a common person’s way of achieving the same thing. Stoicism is a self-directed philosophy of continuous improvement within the world, and aristocracy is a philosophy of continuous achievement through transformation of the world. However, in both models, you cannot be criticized, guilted, shamed, ridiculed by others. Both Martialism and Stoicism make you immune.

    To a lesser degree The Four Agreements Quotes by Miguel Ruiz are a far less sophisticated version that I have found overly sensitive women benefit from.

    And the meditation in buddhism is a less rationalistic way of achieving the same ends. I dont like it because it’s not action oriented.

    What really I don’t like is the prayer-and-rutual way of achieving it because you’ve actually abandoned reality at that point.

    But what you can see from that list is a hierarchy from the most empowered to the least empowered. And from what I can see buddhism is about as far as people should go in withdrawing from the world.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-21 11:19:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 13:24:00 UTC

  • (Remembering in the very early 90’s, a big pitch at Microsoft, and Len Pacheco p

    (Remembering in the very early 90’s, a big pitch at Microsoft, and Len Pacheco pushing me into (a) an 8:00am pitch – a bad idea, and (b) a project I thought we would fail at delivering, (c) a project – as was common – Microsoft wanted to pursue, but In my opinion was not in the company’s interest. And I am not and never have been enough of a whore to take money from a customer, and work long hours, for the sake of making money alone. So I was honest during the pitch, and not happy about being there, and clear about it, and we lost the sale, and the project was killed. And the rest of the management team was furious with me. And I simply didn’t care. It’s not like we were in ‘eating bugs’ mode. And why lose a 50M client, or even take the risk of it, and burn our staff, when it’s not in the customer’s interest? Hell, I told MSFT people that ideas were bad on a regular fucking basis. They don’t like it at the time. But you know. The ones who do like it eventually are the only customers you want to have. And they are the people whose careers you can advance. I realize there are bug eaters out there. But I want to always be the guy with the highest prices and the best reputation for success. And I am not sure I care whether people like me or not. I’m simply not that likable. My job is and always has been, to be right. Being likable is a commodity. Being right is a scarcity. You can charge for both, but you will end up being likable and cheap and right and expensive, and I would rather be expensive. High investment in customers. High investment in spouses. High investment in children. High investment in yourself. )

    Source date (UTC): 2017-07-20 08:54:00 UTC

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