Curt Doolittle

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  • How Can We Retain Our Culture?

    Revolt. Separate. Prosper. Speciate.
    Really, that’s the answer.

    The value of the continent-wide american empire, has outlived its usefulness, and at least for the past 70 years, has been destructive to our civilization.

    Therefore, it’s in our interest to divorce ourselves and let the ‘nine nations of north america’ prosper as they choose – not as others choose for them.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-retain-our-culture

  • Why Is There Such A High Degree Of Fascination Among Today’s Youngsters To Becoming An Entrepreneur?

    it is the only 100% guaranteed means of financial independence, and not having to work for someone ‘dumber’ than you are. 😉

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-such-a-high-degree-of-fascination-among-todays-youngsters-to-becoming-an-entrepreneur

  • Is It Really True For A Person With Phd In Electrical Engineering Needs In Average 100 Job Applications To Get Accepted For A Job In Us?

    Electrical engineering has transformed from a profession to a ‘trade’ for the simple reason that the problems of electrical engineering at scale are for all intents and purposes solved (reduced to predictable algorithms that we call ‘code’), plus an oversupply of degrees. The other engineering disciplines still vary between profession and trade. I don’t track this discipline any longer but as far as I know, you need to scale up or scale down. Electrical is too ‘human scale’.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-really-true-for-a-person-with-PhD-in-Electrical-Engineering-needs-in-average-100-job-applications-to-get-accepted-for-a-job-in-US

  • How Would Americans Respond To The Current Political Events If This Were The 60’s?

    We are. The 60’s was an attempt by the underclass to use postwar economic boom as a means of seizing political power from the upper middle class economic and military aristocracy.

    At present we are reliving that experience because of the threat of cultural, civilizational, and kinship genocide.

    (really)

    Everything, in the long run, is always reducible to demographics. Always. Politics in the medium run. Economics in the short run.

    https://www.quora.com/How-would-Americans-respond-to-the-current-political-events-if-this-were-the-60’s

  • In View Of America’s Threat To Cut International Aid Over The Un Vote On The Jerusalem Issue, What Would Happen If The Rest Of The World Isolated America?

    It would cause a worldwide depression on a scale we have not seen since the combination of christian mysticism and arab expansion that destroyed the civilizations of egypt, north africa, the levant, persia, byzantium, rome, and europe. (the abrahamic dark ages.)

    No one is that stupid.

    https://www.quora.com/In-view-of-Americas-threat-to-cut-international-aid-over-the-UN-vote-on-the-Jerusalem-issue-what-would-happen-if-the-rest-of-the-world-isolated-America

  • How Can We Retain Our Culture?

    Revolt. Separate. Prosper. Speciate.
    Really, that’s the answer.

    The value of the continent-wide american empire, has outlived its usefulness, and at least for the past 70 years, has been destructive to our civilization.

    Therefore, it’s in our interest to divorce ourselves and let the ‘nine nations of north america’ prosper as they choose – not as others choose for them.

    https://www.quora.com/How-can-we-retain-our-culture

  • Why Is There Such A High Degree Of Fascination Among Today’s Youngsters To Becoming An Entrepreneur?

    it is the only 100% guaranteed means of financial independence, and not having to work for someone ‘dumber’ than you are. 😉

    https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-such-a-high-degree-of-fascination-among-todays-youngsters-to-becoming-an-entrepreneur

  • Is It Really True For A Person With Phd In Electrical Engineering Needs In Average 100 Job Applications To Get Accepted For A Job In Us?

    Electrical engineering has transformed from a profession to a ‘trade’ for the simple reason that the problems of electrical engineering at scale are for all intents and purposes solved (reduced to predictable algorithms that we call ‘code’), plus an oversupply of degrees. The other engineering disciplines still vary between profession and trade. I don’t track this discipline any longer but as far as I know, you need to scale up or scale down. Electrical is too ‘human scale’.

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-really-true-for-a-person-with-PhD-in-Electrical-Engineering-needs-in-average-100-job-applications-to-get-accepted-for-a-job-in-US

  • “What are the best UX Design firms in the SeattleBellevue region?”— (From Curt

    —“What are the best UX Design firms in the SeattleBellevue region?”— (From Curt) It depends upon the function of your site and how much functionality it provides. UX, no question, it’s Blink in Seattle, and has been for years now. UX and IA, information Architecture, are slightly different functions, with UX for functionality and IA for content and organization. Frankly, these services are bordering on a science today. Their primary limit is the technology efforts you are willing to pay for. UI Design. The dirty secret is that it’s not the firm, it’s the individual designer that matters. Design is very much like fashion. Large firms are highly constrained by branding standards so there is very little design to be done. Firms that do not have standards can be more adventurous and trendy with design. Do no overdo it with design unless all you are selling is aesthetics. Marketers are generally best at empirical measurement of design, content, messaging, and positioning approaches for target audiences – which matters farm more than design. Creative Directors and Art Directors at larger firms are far better providers of those services. In general it’s the creative director you’re paying for at the agency. Bet solution (always), is to make screenshots of the different features of the sites of your top 20 competitors in the field (or 50 if you have the energy), and not from your area, but from everywhere, and pick the best features from all of them. And pick the best designs. The purpose of doing this is to educate you, more so than your agency, because this is what your agency will do, and then have to educate you. Then pay for the Tech or UX or IA or Messaging and Positioning(‘creative’) or Design, or Marketing and Media Buying – or any combination of those that you need. (I tend to build companies that are heavy on the back end of that (tech, ux, ia, because I traditionally serve the very big, consumer tech companies where creative is limited but message, content, and usability are complicated – but other firms tend to build companies that focus on messaging, positioning, and design. And this is pretty common in the industry. Design small, Tech big. In general, organizations pay for the size agency they can afford. Any agency with more than fifty full time people is probably legit. It’s easy to find independent designers – they are everywhere, and it’s easy to understand their work. It’s not hard to find UX and IA, but it’s hard to judge their work. It’s hard to find independent creative directors. For marketing and buying it’s best to use an agency. It’s just expensive.

  • “What are the best UX Design firms in the SeattleBellevue region?”— (From Curt

    —“What are the best UX Design firms in the SeattleBellevue region?”— (From Curt) It depends upon the function of your site and how much functionality it provides. UX, no question, it’s Blink in Seattle, and has been for years now. UX and IA, information Architecture, are slightly different functions, with UX for functionality and IA for content and organization. Frankly, these services are bordering on a science today. Their primary limit is the technology efforts you are willing to pay for. UI Design. The dirty secret is that it’s not the firm, it’s the individual designer that matters. Design is very much like fashion. Large firms are highly constrained by branding standards so there is very little design to be done. Firms that do not have standards can be more adventurous and trendy with design. Do no overdo it with design unless all you are selling is aesthetics. Marketers are generally best at empirical measurement of design, content, messaging, and positioning approaches for target audiences – which matters farm more than design. Creative Directors and Art Directors at larger firms are far better providers of those services. In general it’s the creative director you’re paying for at the agency. Bet solution (always), is to make screenshots of the different features of the sites of your top 20 competitors in the field (or 50 if you have the energy), and not from your area, but from everywhere, and pick the best features from all of them. And pick the best designs. The purpose of doing this is to educate you, more so than your agency, because this is what your agency will do, and then have to educate you. Then pay for the Tech or UX or IA or Messaging and Positioning(‘creative’) or Design, or Marketing and Media Buying – or any combination of those that you need. (I tend to build companies that are heavy on the back end of that (tech, ux, ia, because I traditionally serve the very big, consumer tech companies where creative is limited but message, content, and usability are complicated – but other firms tend to build companies that focus on messaging, positioning, and design. And this is pretty common in the industry. Design small, Tech big. In general, organizations pay for the size agency they can afford. Any agency with more than fifty full time people is probably legit. It’s easy to find independent designers – they are everywhere, and it’s easy to understand their work. It’s not hard to find UX and IA, but it’s hard to judge their work. It’s hard to find independent creative directors. For marketing and buying it’s best to use an agency. It’s just expensive.