STATUS: Oversing finally looks like a commercial product. Minor icon issues aside. Now we just need to get to feature complete.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-30 13:38:00 UTC
Form: Project Update
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OK. Crazy busy day today. They have oversing rocking right now. I am floored. We
OK. Crazy busy day today. They have oversing rocking right now. I am floored. We have most of the Facebook functionality done. So we can do all the silly chat stuff. Still more to do but you can ‘feel’ it in the interface (Although he chat stream in oversing is on the left, not the right.) And instead of pop stuff, oversing’s topics are all work related. And it looks a little more like the original FB without the big profile image. Lots of grunt work to get to done… but it’s pretty clear we rocked it.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-24 03:57:00 UTC
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Video: The Western Struggle To Speak The Truth
Progress in 2014 (new video!)
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Video: The Western Struggle To Speak The Truth
Progress in 2014 (new video!)
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UPDATE: ANCESTRAL LANDS VIDEO RENDERING. Well this ought to incite a little trou
UPDATE: ANCESTRAL LANDS VIDEO RENDERING.
Well this ought to incite a little trouble. 🙂
The video is in two parts: the conversation between Roman and I (30m), followed by an analytic treatment of the question (30m).
It is also long. But may be profound. But I summarize it in about ten seconds at the very end. 😉
It’s rendering to Youtube at the moment, and usually it takes four or so hours to make the journey even on this relatively quick computer.
Curt Doolittle
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-17 04:55:00 UTC
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YESTERDAY’S VIDEOS : 1- RECAP 2014 IN PROPERTARIANISM The Year in Review. Starti
YESTERDAY’S VIDEOS : 1- RECAP 2014 IN PROPERTARIANISM
The Year in Review.
Starting in December of last year I came out and started the reformation of libertarianism, and restoring it to its aristocratic heritage, by laundering the cosmopolitan verbalisms that rothbard and others have inserted
1) APRIORISM: While I can’t quite do it elegantly yet, I have put a permanent bullet in apriorism as practiced by the cosmopolitans (mises, rothbard popper etc) and continentals. (Hoppe and all the germans). I don’t much care if that zombie idea dies, but I have ended its life at least.
2) NAP/IVP: I have put a permanent silver bullet in the NAP/IVP. That vampire will just take a while to die. And I have forever put an end to Rothbard’s ghetto ethics.
3) PRAXEOLOGY I have put a permanent silver bullet in Misesian Praxeology as he stated it and Rothbard expanded and abused it – And demonstrate that mises merely failed to develop economic operationalism.
4) EMPIRICISM IN ECONOMICS: in particular in the statement that economics is deductive rather than empirical, and operational.
5) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH : I have defined existential truth as testimonial truth – a minor improvement over performative truth, and used the term “testimonial” in order to both distinguish verbalism of performative truth, from the operationalism of testimonial truth, and to invoke the idea of jury that is central to our western evolutionary strategy.
6) THE TRUTH-SPEAKING METHOD ISN’T LIMITED TO SCIENCE – And I have shown that the scientific method is mislabeled, merely because it is the method scientists developed due to their incentives, but is in fact the universal method of truth-speaking.
7) THE MERGING OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY AS TRUTH SPEAKING – And I think I have or will have, restated western philosophy as the attempt to speak the truth in testimony. And that from that perspective philosophy and science are indistinguishable. We can practice philosophy that reduces our ability to speak truthfully; or increases our ability to lie; or increases our ability to speak truthfully.
Note: today it occurs to me that all these nonsensical philosophical systems are interstitial means of inquiry that are no longer to be dismissed, but which tell us nothing unless the theories produced by them can be operationally articulated (constructed).
8) EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES AND TRUTH: Evolutionary Strategies: and I have touched upon the uses of truth as reflective of evolutionary strategies. The weaponization of truth, of the commons, of the family.
9) THE GENETIC DEFECT OF ALTRUISM – I think I have touch upon the fact that our altruism unless we are isolated on an island, or walled beyond a fortress of mountains, is an uncompetitive strategy that cannot resist aggression and weaponized family and reproduction. It is our vulnerability.
10) FAMILY POLICY VS INDIVIDUAL LAW – I forgot to add to my list for 2914, the concept that law must be constructed for individuals, yet state policy must be constructed for families.
11) LAW AND VELOCITY OF PROGRESS.
12) INTER-TEMPORAL INFORMATION SYSTEM – voluntary exchange as an information system. Just as prices form an information system
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-16 00:05:00 UTC
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THE YEAR IN REVIEW : 2014 IN PROPERTARIANISM So, just to keep score: 2009 I star
THE YEAR IN REVIEW : 2014 IN PROPERTARIANISM
So, just to keep score:
2009 I started working full time, with the sketch and trying to solve the problem of calculability.
2010
2011
2012 – start restateing in standard terminology.
2013 –
The Year in Review.
Starting in December of last year I came out and started the reformation of libertarianism, and restoring it to its aristocratic heritage, by laundering the cosmopolitan verbalisms that rothbard and others have inserted
1) APRIORISM: While I can’t quite do it elegantly yet, I have put a permanent bullet in apriorism as practiced by the cosmopolitans (mises, rothbard popper etc) and continentals. (Hoppe and all the germans). I don’t much care if that zombie idea dies, but I have ended its life at least.
2) NAP/IVP: I have put a permanent silver bullet in the NAP/IVP. That vampire will just take a while to die. And I have forever put an end to Rothbard’s ghetto ethics.
3) PRAXEOLOGY I have put a permanent silver bullet in Misesian Praxeology as he stated it and Rothbard expanded and abused it – And demonstrate that mises merely failed to develop economic operationalism.
4) EMPIRICISM OF ECONOMICS: in particular in the statement that economics is deductive rather than empirical, and operational.
4) TESTIMONIAL TRUTH : I have defined existential truth as testimonial truth – a minor improvement over performative truth, and used the term “testimonial” in order to both distinguish verbalism of performative truth, from the operationalism of testimonial truth, and to invoke the idea of jury that is central to our western evolutionary strategy.
5) THE TRUTH-SPEAKING METHOD ISN’T LIMITED TO SCIENCE – And I have shown that the scientific method is mislabeled, merely because it is the method scientists developed due to their incentives, but is in fact the universal method of truth-speaking.
6) THE MERGING OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY AS TRUTH SPEAKING – And I think I have or will have, restated western philosophy as the attempt to speak the truth in testimony. And that from that perspective philosophy and science are indistinguishable. We can practice philosophy that reduces our ability to speak truthfully; or increases our ability to lie; or increases our ability to speak truthfully.
Note: today it occurs to me that all these nonsensical philosophical systems are interstitial means of inquiry that are no longer to be dismissed, but which tell us nothing unless the theories produced by them can be operationally articulated (constructed).
7) EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES AND TRUTH: Evolutionary Strategies: and I have touched upon the uses of truth as reflective of evolutionary strategies. The weaponization of truth, of the commons, of the family.
8) THE GENETIC DEFECT OF ALTRUISM – I think I have touch upon the fact that our altruism unless we are isolated on an island, or walled beyond a fortress of mountains, is an uncompetitive strategy that cannot resist aggression and weaponized family and reproduction. It is our vulnerability.
9) FAMILY POLICY VS INDIVIDUAL LAW – I forgot to add to my list for 2914, the concept that law must be constructed for individuals, yet state policy must be constructed for families.
10) LAW AND VELOCITY OF PROGRESS –
11) INTER-TEMPORAL INFORMATION SYSTEM – voluntary exchange as an information system. Just as prices form an information system
12) LESTERIAN NONSENSE-VERBALISM – Jan lester’s theory of liberty is an obscurantist tautological verbalism that starts with the mere meaning of liberty and loosely deducing subjective value, rather than starting with subjective value, constructing morality, and defining liberty as a legal constraint against the members of the state as yet another statement of property rights. since nothing he states is existential, he demonstrates the fallacy of rationalism in creating mere analogies rather than operational necessities.
Cheers.
Have to run… but that’s my scorecard for 2014, and I still have a month to go.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-12 13:44:00 UTC
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OVERSING UPDATE: WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE DID?
OVERSING UPDATE: WHY DID WE CHOOSE THE TECHNOLOGIES THAT WE DID?
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-10 07:29:00 UTC
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OVERSING – UPDATE, LESSONS LEARNED Iain’s doing our taxes. Seeing how much we’ve
OVERSING – UPDATE, LESSONS LEARNED
Iain’s doing our taxes.
Seeing how much we’ve spent.
It’s not cheap.
I’m crying – sort of – a lot.
I have learned something.
It’s an expensive lesson.
But I couldn’t do it any other way at the time.
And in retrospect, I wouldn’t do it any other way. 🙂
Net is that the savings from being here is not as attractive as it seems.
You only really, all said and done, save about 50%.
What these low burn rates buy you, is the ability to slowly develop the software you want, rather than sprint to develop the software you THINK you want.
We have thrown out the base code twice, and this summer, we even converted to websockets to preserve the user’s experience – and it was very expensive to do that.
So I could not afford, out of pocket, to develop an experimental product like Oversing in the states. It would be impossible at US burn rates (which is why no one does it).
Here I could not develop a product (of this complexity) under US conditions because we just don’t have the experienced people in this country to do it. So it’s not POSSIBLE really to develop a product like Oversing here under normal USA schedule pressure. Because no one knows how.
But if you want to save half the cost, and take half-again or more as long as doing it in the States, then doing development here is awesome. It’s beautiful. I’s ENJOYABLE.
HONESTY:
My health, the work on my philosophy, my state of mind because of my health, were really expensive additions, and the communication barrier was much more expensive than I though – as much as 1/2 or more of the cost to date has been a function of maintaining my stress level so that I could get healthy again (which eventually worked) and the fact that I must incrementally develop the product because of the combination of lack of available UI design analysts and talent, and because it’s just not possible to communicate across these various boundaries that easily. I feel, only in the past four months or so have we achieved that level of transparency and communication that is taken for granted in any west-coast-startup.
I attribute that to the ***CULTURE OF US ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS***. While the USA teaches very little in university of much consequence, it does seem to teach you the important western cultural values of trust, transparency, collaboration and teamwork. (Something I hear from asians pretty regularly.)
But had I been in better condition (Not recovering from my second near-death experience in three years) but also a divorce, and tossing my life upside down, I would have been able to drive the product more consistently.
I am not one to look back and ignore the lessons that life has taught me, and aside from three regrets (my divorce from a perfect wife for me, not staying quit when I resigned as CEO of Ascentium, and not joining the Literature department when they asked me to) I don’t have all that many really.
So life has taught me that I could have done this project in the states for about twice what it has cost me here (about a million here). And that I could have done it for half of that had I been in better health and state of mind.
But that would mean that I had not had the wonderful experience that I have had here, and I would not have the somewhat novel product that I do, and would have only a slightly better version of the product that others have brought to market.
So we are in dead-drop mode here for January,1, and this product will be ready for beta January 1. And it’s time for me to change from repairing myself, while building this product, to the next stage, where we take it to market, and my health and state of mind, have both been recovered.
Cheers.
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-05 05:38:00 UTC
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Thoughts: Oversing Update: In mid to late Q1 we will start to need: A full time
Thoughts: Oversing Update:
In mid to late Q1 we will start to need:
A full time Sysadmin for managing, our builds, and customer instances.
A marketer who will handle relationships with analysts, an agency.
An agency (small cheap) with experience in our industry.
A full time designer for the UI, and web production work.
A full time writer for help, web and training content.
A full time video-clip producer (oversing is a very big application)
One or Two trainer for training customers, a training plan – that makes use of the writing and the video clips and not a new, separate, program.
A customer service (Helpdesk) person, here in Ukraine, and one on the west coast (Seattle). Also responsible for KB content.
One or Two Consultants for configuring instances, migrating data, workflows.Etc.
A Project manager to coordinate it all.
….(I will continue to play product manager role in true Jobs fashion.)
Nine or ten additional product developers in Ukraine – the scarcity being object oriented js.
Two developers (probably in Ukraine, possibly in the states), to build the central repository services.
An analyst for the Skills, Disciplines, Business Processes. Workflows,
A bookkeeper for the usual stuff (although there isn’t much)
An admin chick/office manager for the usual stuff (in Ukraine).
A bank that gives much better service than the one we have now.
Yeah… that’s about right.
It’s ok. I look at burn rates in San Francisco and it makes me laugh. Fully loaded our burn rate would still not hit 3M/Yr at 250K per month. 😉 (Thank you Ukraine.) And Ukraine is very favorable to tech company revenues. 🙂
Source date (UTC): 2014-11-05 04:23:00 UTC