Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • Feeling emotional. Thank you for your friendship, support and criticism this yea

    Feeling emotional. Thank you for your friendship, support and criticism this year. It’s been a tough one all around. But we soldier onward.

    Truth is enough

    Particularly if we back it with violence.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-31 16:40:00 UTC

  • European architecture, Slavic women, Ukrainian food. Christmas market, Holiday c

    European architecture,

    Slavic women,

    Ukrainian food.

    Christmas market,

    Holiday cheer.

    Snow.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-30 06:03:00 UTC

  • L’viv is so beautiful in the snow. Europa, please return to us. Enough of us lov

    L’viv is so beautiful in the snow.

    Europa, please return to us.

    Enough of us love you.

    We promise.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-29 03:50:00 UTC

  • I understand John Taylor’s position on responding to comments. I think its rude.

    I understand John Taylor’s position on responding to comments. I think its rude. But it may turn out to be necessary. I have to separate my desire to help autists from the practical reality of what I do.

    It is very easy for libertarians to grasp the danger of physical aggression against their physical property, but very hard for them to grasp imposition of costs through unethical and immoral activity – because we are nearly immune to it. But the rest of mankind is not. The rest of mankind is far more concerned about thefts by the cunning than thefts by the violent.

    most theft today is not conducted by violence, or physically, but by cunning.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-19 11:55:00 UTC

  • OK. Too much salt in the food last night. I had nightmares all night. Woke up wi

    OK. Too much salt in the food last night. I had nightmares all night. Woke up with a headache. And I still managed to crank out a good idea. Now it’s time to go to the office and work on Oversing.

    We need ten more guys working on the product. At this point that’s all we need.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-15 03:24:00 UTC

  • DEEPLY FELT JOY Accidentally looking at the Linkedin’s suggested connections and

    DEEPLY FELT JOY

    Accidentally looking at the Linkedin’s suggested connections and seeing the hundreds (thousands) of people who have worked for me across various companies that I have started, and the progress they have made in their careers.

    Nothing. Better.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-12 05:51:00 UTC

  • I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average h

    I couldn’t develop philosophy on schedule. It takes what it takes. The average historical investment a philosopher makes in an idea seems to be every waking hour for a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-10 04:27:00 UTC

  • (truth: I lucked out in no small part ’cause I was good-looking enough to compen

    (truth: I lucked out in no small part ’cause I was good-looking enough to compensate for the liability. People give you lots of leeway if you’re attractive. And if you smile a lot, work at having good manners and listen to them carefully, they give you even more. But man it was very hard to be a child in my part of the world in that era. Damn. I haven’t thought about it much, but believe it or not I didn’t say much either. And that helped too. No point talking when no one understands you – smiling and listening work better. Books are your friends. Today kids like us have internet, computers and other toys to amuse ourselves with. But a small farm town with three television channels is a pretty boring place for an infovore. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-07 22:26:00 UTC

  • (You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financi

    (You want me to do what? Jeez. I am creating a complex product at insane financial risk, and late in delivering it, as well as successfully advancing not just political philosophy, but very possibly the discipline of philosophy itself, and working on building an intellectual and political movement, while living in a strange new world where nothing is financially, politically or militarily stable. I just recovered my health, two years after nearly kicking the damn bucket with my third serious illness. … I can only do so much OK? I’m only freaking human. Damn… It’s freaking interesting to watch drama on tv, but living it isn’t exactly for the feeble. Entrepreneurs – and philosophers for that matter – make a difference not so much by being smarter, but by working more hours on a single problem than anyone else is willing to. Kant, Smith and Einstein – not to forget Keyenes – just spent absurd numbers of hours on their ideas. Ideas aren’t that special – effort is. Spending 80,000 hours on a problem is just very hard to do, and it takes something on that order to solve a problem no one else has been willing to. But you know: we are all just freaking human. Ok? Me especially. Hospital rooms suck. Avoid them. I would like to avoid seeing another one for a decade if I can. Lead lined rooms protecting others from the radiation you’re giving off is not something I want to experience again. Nor is the conversation that i might wake up and not be able to use my facial muscles. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-05 09:18:00 UTC

  • Getting a few notes from various friends that I’m not ‘sounding right’. And than

    Getting a few notes from various friends that I’m not ‘sounding right’. And thank you for the care. I am just under a lot of pressure (a) behind on philosophy (b) behind on product (c) new biz oppy that I really want to make sure I investigate thoroughly either way (d) traveling to much – living in multiple cities, (e) seasonal disorder really does mess with my thinking quite a bit – it’s not depressing, I just can’t think as clearly. Its sort of like not being able to wake up fully in the morning. So I think most of it is the season since I find the rest of the work enjoyable even if there is too much of it.

    I will take some vitamin D and get into a sunbed. If I get worse I’ll hop on a plane to some sun. OK? Thanks for the PM advice. One woman in particular. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-03 08:44:00 UTC