Curt Doolittle

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  • Licenses as Warranty Because of the Failure of the Academy.

    [W]e have Series 7 license for investment. We have the MD for medicine. We have the RN for medicine We have the Bar for law. We have the CPA for accounting

    Why not an equivalent for lending? Why not an equivalent for handling money in any capacity (all employees)? Why not the same for speech-for-fee? (journalism) After all, the academy makes no warranty.  We require these licenses precisely BECAUSE the academy makes no warranty. The Libertarian solution is private insurance. But losing your ticket is insurance enough. Insurance creates perverse incentives also.

  • Licenses as Warranty Because of the Failure of the Academy.

    [W]e have Series 7 license for investment. We have the MD for medicine. We have the RN for medicine We have the Bar for law. We have the CPA for accounting

    Why not an equivalent for lending? Why not an equivalent for handling money in any capacity (all employees)? Why not the same for speech-for-fee? (journalism) After all, the academy makes no warranty.  We require these licenses precisely BECAUSE the academy makes no warranty. The Libertarian solution is private insurance. But losing your ticket is insurance enough. Insurance creates perverse incentives also.

  • My friend Jeannine just reminded me of something: What if we separated women’s a

    My friend Jeannine just reminded me of something:

    What if we separated women’s and men’s universities? If we did, would women’s universities be able to compete with men’s universities for revenues and prestige? No. Of course not.

    But what do women do to curriculum of universities?

    Just what they do to market and state…..

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-11 10:12:00 UTC

  • We have series 7 for investment. We have the md for medicine. We have the rn for

    We have series 7 for investment.

    We have the md for medicine.

    We have the rn for medicine

    We have the bar for law.

    We have the cpa for accounting

    Why not an equivalent for lending?

    Why not an equivalent for handling money in any capacity (all employees)?

    Why not the same for speech-for-fee? (journalism)

    The academy makes no warranty.

    The Libertarian solution is private insurance.

    But losing your ticket is insurance enough. Insurance creates perverse incentives also.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-07 10:57:00 UTC

  • How about a Petition for Right Of Return for Ethnic English? (R1b+)

    How about a Petition for Right Of Return for Ethnic English? (R1b+)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-06-01 03:12:00 UTC

  • IS A THEORY GOOD BECAUSE IT IS USEFUL, OR BECAUSE WE FEEL IT IS TRUE? And is it

    IS A THEORY GOOD BECAUSE IT IS USEFUL, OR BECAUSE WE FEEL IT IS TRUE? And is it truthful because we can defend it, or because we cannot falsify it?

    (slightly tricky question)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-26 03:59:00 UTC

  • Why not a war on corporations: The corporate state vs the nation state The redis

    Why not a war on corporations:

    The corporate state vs the nation state

    The redistributive state vs the family

    The corporate commercial entity vs partnerships

    Why isn’t progressivism just a war on good families by bad families?

    Isn’t progressivism just a war on aristocracy?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-24 03:59:00 UTC

  • Why do we conduct economic analysis in monetary terms rather than work hours? Yo

    Why do we conduct economic analysis in monetary terms rather than work hours? You can judge the productivity of those hours – sure. But consumption must be measured in hours, production in hours. Everything else is basically some sort of deception of convenience?

    Talk about ‘mathiness’? OMG. The only measure of consumption was caloric. Now its both caloric and informational. Any ‘family’ metric is another deceit.

    Pseudoscience is too prevalent in macro.

    IT might sound like I am a neophyte making an ancient argument, but that’s not the case. The problem is that political issues are driven by time and stress. And that consumption in information eras cannot be easily measured in physical terms.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-21 07:51:00 UTC

  • (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion) I had a couple of convers

    (germany) (mindfulness) (stoicism) (european religion)

    I had a couple of conversations this morning on the German Secret, and I still don’t think I get it.

    Just why is it that Germany has managed to create ‘mindfulness’ out of duty? How is it taught, instilled, socialized, institutionalized, and maintained?

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-20 07:05:00 UTC

  • Riffing off Don’s post on Musk. How can I construct a business that is profitabl

    Riffing off Don’s post on Musk.

    How can I construct a business that is profitable enough to pay my employees a twenty percent premium wage in a tribal work environment?

    Loyalty must be reciprocal. And it’s the only emotion I really understand anyway.

    I get juice out of making good jobs and happy customers. And honestly I care about wealth only in so far as it makes that possible while allowing me my intellectual freedom.

    (unfortunately, because of the advisory and pedagogical way that I manage, over time, my partners seem to have the habit of thinking they can do what I do. And they always fail. )

    My happiest memories in business are the big holiday parties. That’s the fruit of my labor.

    We all operate by different biases.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-05-19 05:07:00 UTC