Curt Doolittle

Form: Diary

  • (Diary) I just spent the evening with a bunch of random characters I met at a lo

    (Diary)
    I just spent the evening with a bunch of random characters I met at a local bar (restaurant). An environmental engineer (biologist) from San Francisco visiting his son at college, and a ferrari mechanic who lives locally, a husband, wife, and two children demonstrating 10/10 wholesome parenting with overflowing love and humor. Throw in a half dozen other characters I met trying to find out who was driving the restored red 1967 mustang, and one of the OMG tricked out Harleys, on top of the four waitresses of extraordinary good nature – because the customers are of extraordinarily good nature..
    And I love these ‘normal’ people. I am nothing like them. I have lived a life unlike them. But they are good and kind and loving of one another and they are moral people enjoying life. And I would rather be among them than all the ‘elites’ in my history who I have had the misfortune to earn money from by telling them the truth no one else would dare to. Or, the kind of people who serve them who are so ‘softly’ immoral that they are gradually corrupted by them out of profitability or expediency.
    Moral decay is rather obvious at this point. And while the mundane corruption of bureaucracy may have reached perihelion across the west, I have come to understand there is no need for it..And come to understand it’s source. And come to understand its suppression. Even if the reproductive asymmetry of the sexes and by consequence distribution of human moral intuition means that we will never be free of the causality.
    Yet, I am aware that upon publishing all of this in my usual rigor, that the offense at the truth of it will cause resistance to the certainty of it.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-31 04:36:57 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1928672022349099202

  • (Diary) I’m not sure which is more tediously indecisive. This cat that can’t dec

    (Diary)
    I’m not sure which is more tediously indecisive. This cat that can’t decide whether inside or out, or a significant other that can’t decide on which restaurant for dinner.

    Look, it’s not that complicated. Because it’s not that meaningful. 😉 Flip a coin for goodness sake. 😉

    Better not to give them the option. boot the cat out the door. Just tell the significant other where you’re going. Save yourself hours and hours of wasted time over the years. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-30 00:56:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1928254198036189409

  • (PS: I don’t have a problem with women at all. Perhaps just the opposite. The on

    (PS: I don’t have a problem with women at all. Perhaps just the opposite. The only problem I have had in my relationships is always the same: I work harder than anyone else until I burnout and it tends to ruin my relationships because I become emotionally numb and my significant others feel powerless to stop me from exhaustion. … You see, I know how to seek therapy and learn from it like anyone else. 😉 It’s late in life but I don’t intend to repeat that cycle. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-29 01:46:03 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1927904238853857566

  • (Diary) My female friends are utterly amazing, and a positive influence on my li

    (Diary)
    My female friends are utterly amazing, and a positive influence on my life. And I disagree that men and women can’t be friends. There just can’t be any meaningful attraction (eros) there. If that’s both unwanted and off the table, and both of you get what you give, it’s wonderful. Especially when you’re on the extreme end of the male cognitive spectrum, such that female social insight appears like a superpower. 😉
    I loved women. I loved the playful dance between men and women. In my generation we liked each other. And I’m sad for the present and especially urban generations who have turned sex differences into interesexual warfare.
    It’s partly due to the marxist-to-feminist-to-woke cult’s evolution, and partly the male counter-revolution against it. But it’s also part of the disappearance of the possibility of the one income family, the cost of the educational diploma mill, the expansion of white color clerical work during the age of computers, and of course, the industrialization of relationships through social media treating it as shopping rather than seeking opportunity to adapt to one another, the end of liability for interference in or termination of a marriage, with it’s common property, child support, and alimony – all of which I expect to end by the beginning of the next decade.
    In fact, given that list its amazing we aren’t going extinct through lack of reproduction.
    Wait… we ARE.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-26 04:18:11 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1926855357084614893

  • (Diary) When your ex calls you up to berate you as a means of asking you to resc

    (Diary)
    When your ex calls you up to berate you as a means of asking you to rescue her from another set of iffy decisions.

    Men must choose between treating them as children or crazy. At least as children they’re forgivable. If crazy the only solution is walking away and no contact.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-25 02:42:07 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1926468793376657483

  • (Diary) I was supposed to attend the Kiretsu Forum today, which is the local ang

    (Diary)
    I was supposed to attend the Kiretsu Forum today, which is the local angel VC org that I find does the best job of promoting new and emerging companies. I can’t quite make it unfortunately (stomach problems). So sorry folks. But I do want to compliment them on their work. And recognize that I’m missing the opportunity to look into these great companies and investments.

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-14 18:26:50 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922720275826897372

  • (Diary, Nonsense) Why is it, that there are these days, when we just need a bit

    (Diary, Nonsense)
    Why is it, that there are these days, when we just need a bit of a ‘vacation day’. And on this particular day, despite that I consume nearly no alcohol, it feels like one of those days where a few coronas with lime and lunch is the most productive thing you’re capable of. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-14 17:57:27 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922712878433669331

  • (Diary) Making Friends Is Easy Every time I relocate around the world I need to

    (Diary)
    Making Friends Is Easy

    Every time I relocate around the world I need to recreate a friend network. Prosociality and all that nonsense. 😉 And moving back to the northwest has repeated the process – a process that was extremely difficult in rural New England, especially after the ease of Moscow, Kiev, and L’viv.

    But the more you develop the system of making friends, the more you develop a sensitivity to whom you want to.

    Of course, it’s much easier with fellow execs, business people, tech folks, intellectuals and artists. But the same is often true of people who’ve born life’s responsibilities with at least moderate success. It gives them a self confidence that suppresses the neuroticism that drives most people to undesirable behavior.

    In general all my close friends are hyper-moral, somewhat humble, limited in need for attention from others, and interested in human nature or the intersection of human nature with tech, economics, or politics and geostrategy. I’m actually ‘allergic’ to the majority of immoral peers for whom cunning has replaced ethics.

    On the other hand my female friends tend to be interested in the intersection of human nature and marriage, family, relationships, and if I am lucky, the arts or even better fine arts. (I’ve been lucky twice in two long term relationships with women in the fine arts.) The arts are where sociology, psychology, and ideas meet in a language that women find natural to them.

    The Secret: Don’t want anything other than seeking to understand the other person, sufficiently to find some way to improve his or her quality of life – even if its simply through attention, recognition, and reinforcement. And speak the truth and only the truth.

    I’ve built a number of new friends here already and one of whom I sure will be life-long. I also contacted three of my female friends with whom I’ve built a familial relationship of mutual consideration and care. Men and women can be friends. As long as there is no physical attraction, only friendship. Something that’s never been a problem for me, but I can’t attest to the challenge faced by others. So I touch base with these women I respect – and who I can count on for a woman’s advice when needed (which I find priceless).

    And I realize, perhaps near death experiences may cause a radical change in valence, but I value my friends, especially my female friends and exes, and am thankful daily for having shared some of this precious life with them.

    Hopefully this encourages someone to consider something useful. 😉

    Cheers
    CD

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-13 18:41:40 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1922361617750360067

  • (nonsense) It’s a beautiful sunny day today, with rare clear skies in the northw

    (nonsense)
    It’s a beautiful sunny day today, with rare clear skies in the northwest. And it’s a friday.

    Do you suppose a six pack of Coronas with lime will improve my work on Volume 1, or not? Because, well, I’m a scientist. I’d like to run that experiment. It’s the only way to be sure. 😉

    Your professional advice is welcome. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 19:54:32 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920930406079361316

  • (Diary) Luckily my desk is in front of a large window that opens on a suburban s

    (Diary)
    Luckily my desk is in front of a large window that opens on a suburban street. I look out at your usual northwest neighborhood of pine trees and 1980s designed houses.
    And, I get to see all the neighborhood walk their dogs (everyone must have at least one around here if not two. There are legions of them.).
    But … I feel this mischievous urge to cat call-and whistle followed by shouting out that they have an awesome dog.
    I am sure this would cause me the right kind of reputation around here – lunatic. 😉
    Unfortunately, this is a rental. So I have to suppress my mischievous behaviors.
    Sigh.
    Life’s little lost opportunities for joy. 😉
    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2025-05-09 19:43:26 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1920927610072428574