Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • ( diary: really rough day today. cant do the stress like i used to. came here fo

    ( diary: really rough day today. cant do the stress like i used to. came here for a more simple life. cant lose sight of that. sigh. )

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-25 16:31:00 UTC

  • (Health Diary) So wait. If I ingest sulfites or msg then my immune system reacts

    (Health Diary)

    So wait. If I ingest sulfites or msg then my immune system reacts to it. I get dizzy, disoriented, confused, sleep, then wake up between 1 and 12 hours later, usually with the whole can’t breathe, running nose, sneezing, thing.

    But I get the SAME reaction of dizziness, disorientation and sleepiness when I come down with a cold or flu, except I also feel extremely depressed for a few hours beforehand for no reason at all (which is extremely annoying, I have to tell you.)

    So both of these effects are my immune system at work – right?

    I have always thought that the short intense depression was a reaction developed when I was ill for so long – the cancer was very slow growth. But maybe there is something to learn here.

    I know that there is a relationship between the immune system, chronic tiredness, depression, manic depression, and schizophrenia. In that these are all immune-system related disorders of some type or other.

    I am also uncomfortable with the dompaminergenic theory of evolution.

    I am also uncomfortable with the clear relationship between these diseases and exceptionally creative thinkers.

    So it seems increasingly likely that some childhood diseases, or what our immune systems consider poisonings, cripple our immune systems. And that we live out our lives having obtained our ‘blessing’ at fairly high cost.

    I notice rothbard’s asthma when he is speaking. Although I understand similar effects can be achieved by smoking AND that smoking can medicate the effects. I know Hayek was troubled particularly late in life. And the stories about Socrates, Smith, and Kant as well as most poets, and many writers, is legendary.

    I know that fasting repairs immune systems, and that in general, fasting for short periods is awfully good for you. I also know that my intellectual performance is near zero when I am hungry.

    Sleep, exercise, water, lower stress, the love of good people.

    And a good austrian doctor … lol

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-24 12:51:00 UTC

  • Before and during college I used to love working Saturdays in retail, and have S

    Before and during college I used to love working Saturdays in retail, and have Sunday and Monday off.

    On Saturday I would only have to think about customers – not corporate stuff. Customers are not in ‘work mode’ when they talk to you. There is less general ‘noise’ from the street traffic and bustle.

    I worked in commercial art and printing supplies. So it’s not like I was selling clothes or pizza. People were either hobbyists or professional artists or designers, or architects or engineers, or students. So I was dealing with an interesting class of people. And at that time, it was a manual rather than software craft. It took quite a bit of work to do the most basic thing.

    People are much less well behaved in public today. We have far more underclass participating in retail. So it’s not the same experience. Amercians are more selfish and feel more privileged, so it is a less pleasant one.

    I am not one of those people who gets tired of customers. I like solving their problems. I have never had a problem firing bad customers – even in my teens. “I want to help you. It makes me happy to help you. But I can’t help you if you are unkind to me.” This has always worked in every industry. I don’t talk about duty or respect. I talk about care and kindness.

    ( And if you have ever been opposite me in hostile negotiations you know that I am not pleased by them but I have a ‘talent’ for them. I hold the moral high ground. And win or lose that is the right action for me. )

    I have always found greater comfort in the presence of calm crowds, whether in the campus union reading, or in the shopping mall, or in the open desk area working, or in the coffee shop designing software or writing.

    Cause I love my fellow humans.

    Every lunatic one of them.

    (Even those that need paternalism so that they don’t hurt mankind).

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-23 03:56:00 UTC

  • Olga (someone I am friendly with) just told me I was ‘arrogant’ with her yesterd

    Olga (someone I am friendly with) just told me I was ‘arrogant’ with her yesterday. And that I should be careful. All with a smile.

    I was probably concentrating and not engaged enough in the conversation.

    Ukrainian women don’t put on shows and drama. They just kick your ass. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-21 03:34:00 UTC

  • Relaxing after work

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  • Relaxing after work

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  • WORKING WITH A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS: PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS I always feel like w

    WORKING WITH A FOOT IN BOTH WORLDS: PHILOSOPHY AND BUSINESS

    I always feel like working in both worlds – analytic philosophy and business – has been a liability in some respects, and an asset in others.

    To some degree people discount both because you’re not limiting yourself to one or the other – although it certainly worked for most of the better thinkers in history to do both.

    So my career consists of people in business telling me I belong in a university, and people in academia telling me I am an entrepreneur. Frankly I belong right where I am – doing both. ‘Cause that is what makes me happy.

    But if I am remembered at all, it will be for my philosophy – not for the ten or so businesses I have built so far; each one of which was an experiment in social science.

    Although after Propertarianism and Testimonialism it is more likely that I will be thought of as a philosopher first, and an entrepreneur second. I suspect it will help my entrepreneurial efforts, despite its controversy.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-19 02:24:00 UTC

  • (Hate this time of year. I’ve worked about eleven hours today. Maybe a little mo

    (Hate this time of year. I’ve worked about eleven hours today. Maybe a little more. And I’m beat. It’s the damned darkness. I fit were June I’d still be cranking, but it’s just a little after seven and I feel like its midnight. argh. I need two productive days.)

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-18 12:18:00 UTC

  • Very nice young college girl here I have known for the past couple of years (wai

    Very nice young college girl here I have known for the past couple of years (waitress in one of my favorite places.) We always chat. She is friends with another girl who reminds me very much of my daughter Caitie. I love that there are good people everywhere in this world if you try to find them. Always support the young folk with promise. Care is contagious and acceptance is gives them energy. Same with the young men I run into. I remember being 23. OMG. We need to give them all the help they can get. 🙂

    Pay it forward.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 11:47:00 UTC

  • MOTHERHOOD IS A MUCH BETTER DRUG THAN THE KIND FROM THE PHARMACY. I like having

    MOTHERHOOD IS A MUCH BETTER DRUG THAN THE KIND FROM THE PHARMACY.

    I like having kids around the house. A lot. Assuming that they don’t jump on me too much or pose a risk to my technology. lol. It’s like you can get and give hugs in volume all the time. I am just not entertaining for children. And I am a terrible babysitter for wee ones ’cause I really have no idea what to do. And my brain is always working on something. But especially if your wife loves taking care of them, or you have a nanny, then it’s awesome. You can be a lifeguard, and your spouse can be cruise ship director.

    I’ve had my own families. I’ve been able to spend enough time with three other women’s kids, and it’s sort of all dependent upon the woman. There are some women who love being mom, and some that find it partly fulfilling but not enough to do full time, and some that seek to avoid it as much as possible.

    The superwomen in my generation got screwed by feminism. they’re old, accomplished, single or in bad marriages, and they either don’t have kids or have kids with issues. here I see dozens of women every day who choose family first, and they just have less money, but literally none of them seem ‘crazy’ like so many desperate american women.

    I mean, American women are evidently crazy as hell from the amount of drugs they’re taking.

    Motherhood, and grand-motherhood are much better drugs than those you get from the pharmacy.

    americans are unhappy because they’re lonely.

    The lies of pseudoscience. That’s what did it.

    And women were the carriers of the disease.

    Source date (UTC): 2016-01-17 04:12:00 UTC