Curt Doolittle

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  • (personal) (silly) Weekend rug-rat invasion. Been a long time. Kids are awesome.

    (personal) (silly)

    Weekend rug-rat invasion. Been a long time. Kids are awesome.

    Life with kids is much better if mom isn’t terrorizing the kid with her OCD – child abuse by over-control. 🙂

    They’re learning machines. They learn what they can. What they want to. And we need to be lifeguards, but not generals.

    I cannot crawl around on all fours can chasing a small child as easily as I could when I was in my twenties though. And now my knees hurt. lol.

    Life is awesome. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-22 07:55:00 UTC

  • CURRENT EVENTS: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT (venting)(personal) You know, I hate it,

    CURRENT EVENTS: FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT

    (venting)(personal)

    You know, I hate it, but I am REALLY GOOD at hostile, brutal negotiation, suit, and prosecution. The nastier, the better. The more immoral the actions of the opposition the better. I sort of fell down from 2007-12 because of the divorce and health issues. But especially since this summer, I seem to be getting my energy back. But before my illness I viewed lawsuits as necessary mental exercise.

    I can’t stand scumbags, and I have very fond notches on my cerebral gun from putting some others under the heels of the jack booted thugs:

    – Elliot and Robert Koenig (Racketeering)

    – Sidney Golub and Paul Irwin (Fraud and Wire Fraud)

    – Wayne Seminoff and Company. (Fraud and Tax Evasion)

    – (A new one in waiting)

    ALWAYS TAKE THE MORAL HIGH GROUND. ALWAYS.

    The other idiots are almost always a greedy set of f___king criminals and will absolutely fall into the first, tiger trap that you make for them. You must be very patient. Collect information and evidence. Leave the right trail of conscientious objection. And then wait to the proper moment.

    And then you just hand the package over to the FBI, IRS, Treasury, Postal Inspector, Justice Department or whatever crusading, lower middle class bureaucrat, that loves to slaughter a capitalist whale for career, fun, profit and dinner conversation.

    The women in my life always tell me that I should just let these things go. But you know, I hate it when scumbags prey on others. And as a proud capitalist, I hate it even MORE when a capitalist is a scumbag and gives capitalism a bad name.

    And if THE STATE DIDN’T INSULATE political, intellectual, and white collar criminals by requiring ‘standing’, we could all just crucify these immoral idiots in court until we had our civil society back.

    ARISTOCRACY

    But I can’t let immorality stand.

    That’s what it means to be aristocracy: to be an owner of the commons. To manage your culture’s investment in moral capital.

    And to take threats to moral capital as threats against the body and soul of your people.

    That’s what HONOR means.

    Charity is for the weak. For the strong, our job, our DUTY, is to fight the dragons, white collar in particular. To rip out their hearts, eat them, and then piss on their rotting corpses.

    And, from personal experience, it makes excellent dinner party conversation.

    (venting off)

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-21 11:19:00 UTC

  • OK. I’m going to do this with ‘mischief’. Because I have a sort of thing for mis

    OK. I’m going to do this with ‘mischief’. Because I have a sort of thing for mischief. 🙂

    1) I was born in Connecticut, grew up in a little victorian town in western new york, and returned to CT for late high school.

    2) A friend and I accidentally lit the county’s largest brush fire playing with firecrackers. I ran about a mile or two home. When i called the fire department from home they didn’t believe me. They though it was a prank call. “Where is it?” They asked. “What do you mean? It’s not like you can’ find it. The whole field is on fire!” “you better go out there and show the firemen” “What? You mean you can’t see it from downtown?” Perils of a slightly autistic childhood. Adults always seemed incredibly stupid to me.

    3) A friend and I, at age 12, overheard some kids our age planning to have a ‘party’. We made a ‘bug’ from a microphone and tape recorder and bugged the room. Great audio. Went around playing it for friends. Never occurred to us that anyone would rat. The girls ended up sleeping in a barn for a week because the whole town eventually knew about it. First time I got in completely over my head.

    4) I studied fine art, art history and art theory in college. My best paper was on the demarcation between Art, Design and Craft. My favorite project was a small package that looked like it had been shipped across the world by gorillas, but that yelled at you if you touched it. (recording).

    6) Getting, um, “rigorous physical exercise” in the antiquities room at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with an unnamed female friend during regular hours. I really didn’t care if we got caught. I was disappointed. It meant that the story wasn’t as good. And one of your goals in life is to collect good stories.

    7) I have driven at 150 mph at both ends of I90. On the east coast my wheel-nuts started coming off. I had two left when I finally stopped. On the west coast I drove that fast as a daily occurrence, whenever the weather was good. Never got a ticket. Every ticket I did get was for going seven MPH or less over the limit in a suburban area.

    8) I have crawled through ceilings and ducting to ‘get into’ offices to ‘open’ files and obtain evidence of fraudulent use of government funds and tax evasion. (B&E for a good cause. The ‘perp’ went from Bentley to Yamaha overnight. The state is evil.) I had previously taken out this person’s main competitor by similar means, using the Justice Department and the Postal inspector. Mercedes to Volkswagen in 30 days. But afterward I decided I wanted to leave the industry anyway.

    9) I never use credit cards. I think they are a criminal enterprise designed to enslave the population with consumer credit and achieve with fiat money, what neither law nor religion, nor opium had previously managed to accomplish. If I don’t have the cash I don’t do it.

    10) I have fired, in the past decade, something like 300 people. And I’m really good at it. No one ever cries. No one is ever angry. And it always goes positively.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-16 10:43:00 UTC

  • 4:00am. in Kiev. In a club. With Roman Skaskiw Music. People. Talking Biz. Histo

    4:00am.

    in Kiev. In a club.

    With Roman Skaskiw

    Music. People.

    Talking Biz. History. Libertarianism. Women.

    Awesome. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-15 21:10:00 UTC

  • NERD QUIETUDE Sitting in the darkness The laptop screen A streetlight through th

    NERD QUIETUDE

    Sitting in the darkness

    The laptop screen

    A streetlight through the window.

    Feet up. Tea. A couple of pears.

    A smokey Gouda. Whiskey.

    The sound of people walking by on the street.

    Bug bashing is best done as a nocturnal activity.

    It’s heavenly: Peaceful. Relaxed. Patient.

    Sort of like an exploration game that you play at your own pace.

    Life rocks.

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-11 19:15:00 UTC

  • I…. REALLY want to go hit the clubs tonight. Little crazy dancing. Loud music.

    I…. REALLY want to go hit the clubs tonight.

    Little crazy dancing. Loud music. Lots of pretty white people. Some good whiskey.

    Find a place and sing a little Nirvana LOUD.

    Hug and high-five random people.

    But… no. It’s a school night. Lots of work to do this week. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-10 14:59:00 UTC

  • LOOKING THROUGH MY ANNUAL STRATEGY DOCS FOR THE 00’s. (personal)(entrepreneurshi

    LOOKING THROUGH MY ANNUAL STRATEGY DOCS FOR THE 00’s.

    (personal)(entrepreneurship)

    Didn’t realize I was carrying them around on my hard drive. 🙂 It was entertaining. Looking back over more than a decade, six months of long discursive documents at a time, and sort of re-living the experience.

    One thing that I tried, other than ‘sovereignty’ for employees as a cultural and recruiting strategy, was to follow the Good To Great data on internal production of talent. I had always had the opposite view, and the GTG idea worked. I don’t really buy the GTG simple message thing. I mean, you need to be very good at what you need to be good at. But that’s just a starting point.

    DAY 0 Collecting the founders for an industry opportunity.

    DAY 1 Owner-Operator Goals. (must be the same)

    DAY 2 Basic market strategy given the era, location, customer base.

    DAY 3 Minimum capital strategy – how to do it for free or less. 🙂

    Year 1 Organizational culture, processes and systems

    Year 2 Talent acquisition at all costs (create a magnet)

    Year 3 Building a management team, and systems from within

    Year 4 Extending the product and service line through acquisition.

    (I start to see the economy at catastrophic risk, and with it, Microsoft’s future. And these two events mean that if I don’t do something the future is unsustainable.)

    Year 5 Extending the geography through acquisition

    Year 6 Extending growth rate by adding capital.

    By now I can see that the economy will collapse fairly soon and that it will stay down for a very long time, and that I will need to sell the business OR get enough cash to go on a buying spree after the crash. But that with our high dependence on Microsoft and our regional basis, It’s a death sentence to try to build a large company

    Year 7 Increasing the short term value of the company in prep for a raise, trying to beat the obviously-collapsing economy.

    Didn’t work. Why? Couldn’t get the data from accounting.

    — crash —

    Year 8 Selling off a profitable and large section of the business.

    Only mistakes I made that were really big, was that when I resigned I didn’t stay resigned. 🙂 Should have just stuck with it. Loyalty and all.

    Won’t do that again. 🙂 lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-10 03:56:00 UTC

  • PROGRESS REPORT : Dear Diary (personal) In ten years, with two bouts of cancer,

    PROGRESS REPORT : Dear Diary

    (personal)

    In ten years, with two bouts of cancer, and as a consequence, two more serious illnesses requiring surgery, followed by divorce from a long happy marriage, and the near destruction by an investor’s greed ignorance of the $100M company I built during that period despite these ‘challenges’.

    I set out to change my life, to leave the war-zone of that company behind me (check), to lose weight (check), to write at least half time (check), to treat each day as a precious gift to enjoy (check), to build a smaller company where I had more sovereign control (check) and less unnecessary stress herding not-very-bright-cats (check), to find a woman who was my dedicated friend and partner, not a life draining dependent (check). 🙂

    And I’m still building a new (and probably better) company, with better people, and writing what I think is pretty good, durable philosophy that’s reforming libertarianism from a rhetorical, moral and preferential basis, to a scientific and necessary one.

    Life is tragic, comic or heroic.

    It’s a choice.

    My advice is to choose. 🙂

    It is always better to be a warrior than a slave.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-10 02:50:00 UTC

  • ON FB FRIENDS Friends keep increasing but the demographic is different. I’m cont

    ON FB FRIENDS

    Friends keep increasing but the demographic is different.

    I’m continuing to drop the old employees that I have nothing in common with. Its not like I’m going to get back into the agency or consulting business any time soon. I have the freedom to express myself now that I didn’t have as an American CEO. And while the technology business is a bit libertarian, the agency business is almost entirely socialist.

    I did manage to piss off a few people with Buddhist Interest with a few of my sketches. I guess if I want to promote scientifically based morality that I’m an equal opportunity offender. I try not to actually get into religion where it’s arational but still consequentially positive for economic cooperation. I try only to attack religious ideas that are IRRATIONAL and consequentially negative for economic cooperation. But I still manage to dig a hole.

    the entirely sentimental libertarians that I seem to offend now and then, well, I ‘m sorry but I’m kind of happy to offend them. I am OK with every religion doing it’s thing, but libertarianism is a pretty weak religion if that’s how you approach it. But some people take it as sacred and when I slay libertarian sacred cows now and then, I expect to lose people.

    Women friends are interesting because I actually value their criticism pretty seriously for reasons that are too difficult to go into here. If the canary makes noise I know that I’ve done something wrong. If I say the truth and the truth is what it is, it should be disturbing, but still obvious that it’s true, and that it’s not my fault that it’s true. It’s true that marriage isn’t very good for a lot of women, and its probably disproportionately more satisfying for men. However, our economies depend on marriage and the nuclear family for our political institutions that govern by majority rule, to operate as designed and intended. And redistribution only can function if it’s not from married people to unmarried people and that’s what’s happening. Class is one thing. But if class means married and unmarried that’s going to have pretty serious consequences.

    But the number slowly grows.

    I can’t imagine there are more than a few hundred people out there that are really interested in libertarian philosophy at any level of detail.

    I can’t imagine that there are that many out there who understand that we need a reformation of libertarianism.

    I can’t imagine that there are all that many who could understand the argument and solution (although that is what I try to do.)

    So I don’t particularly seek numbers, I seek a certain class of individual who is interested in the detail, the reformation, and the solution.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-08 12:38:00 UTC

  • (personal) (sentiment) I loved my university experience. All six years of it. 🙂

    (personal) (sentiment)

    I loved my university experience. All six years of it. 🙂 Mostly what I loved was being with the people. Although very few of the professors were all that interesting. It was a lot less anxious environment for me than ‘real life’ which seemed largely populated by zombies.

    But as much as I loved the university, I learned almost everything of value reading on my own. And I think picking up debate as a hobby turned out to be almost as educational. Because it forces you to question your own ideas. As long as you learn from your failures.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-11-05 07:52:00 UTC