Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • WELL, THAT WAS THE WORST YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC Yep. We have a president that sele

    WELL, THAT WAS THE WORST YEAR OF THE REPUBLIC

    Yep. We have a president that selectively enforces the law, arbitrarily issues dictates without congress, and a majority leader who destroyed 200 years of precedence.

    WE HAVE NO RULE OF LAW. AS SUCH WE ARE NOT BOUND BY LAW.

    We are bound by the state’s willingness to apply violence and our willingness to apply violence.

    There is no rule of law. We have brute majority rule on the one hand and an autonomous executive.

    THE WORST PRESIDENT IN HISTORY.

    Nixon was nothing compared to Obama. Carter’s ideological incompetence and wearing ‘jeans’ at the white house was nothing compared to this man’s incompetence. Lincoln was wrong to conquer the south, but that he was not incompetent. Bush was wrong to buy into the neocon vision of an american Rome, but he was not an out and out liar.

    New congress. Impeachment. Repeal.

    But what will we get?

    Further slide into civil war.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-31 13:24:00 UTC

  • ANTIQUE SOFTWARE – LETTING LICENSES LAPSE We will let our licenses lapse next mo

    ANTIQUE SOFTWARE – LETTING LICENSES LAPSE

    We will let our licenses lapse next month.

    We no longer need Atlassian’s Jira, Agile or Confluence. We will never need Microsoft’s CRM or Salesforce, or Sharepoint, or Dynamics PSA, or Exchange, or Changepoint, or FunctionPoint, or recruiting software, or even Outlook.

    They’re ‘antiques’.

    Remnants of a past era. The remaining artifacts of the 80’s.

    We know the model that replaces Word. (Final Draft, Scrivener and Ulysses, and we know markdown and css replace RTF.)

    We know the model that replaces Outlook (Oversing and Facebook).

    We know the model that replaces standalone CRM packages.

    We know that there isnt’ any value from an accounting system beyond what the high end of Sage Provides.

    We can’t eliminate Excel yet, but we can best it in the next decade.

    It will take us three versions to finish it all. And of course, we can blow it. But the model is done. Oversing’s the model.

    Oversing’s the killer app for managing a business – no more looking in the rearview mirror.

    “Everything in context”. 😉

    I remember telling Stephen Elop over lunch that this revolution was coming and that the entire cultural model would have to change with the next generation…. while he stared at me over salad. (I told you he would be a disaster for Nokia. Microsoft internal success is a contrary indicator of competency, because it is so abnormal an organization – entirely insulated from the market and its effects by the network effect and the consequential rent seeking on windows investments.)

    Everything in context. LOOKING FORWARD.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-31 10:56:00 UTC

  • CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS : I love how men and women are portrayed in the media here

    CULTURAL OBSERVATIONS :

    I love how men and women are portrayed in the media here versus in the states. Men are, frankly manly, mature, and women are elegant and beautiful, and the sexuality is not crass like hollywood videos, but beautiful.

    We celebrate the hedonism of peasantry as a vehicle for marketing with baser instincts. They celebrate their aspirations.

    It makes me realize how ‘cheap’ americanism is. Another packaged good for the proles.

    Aristocracy died with the first world war. It just took this long for the proles to tear down the castles and use the stones to build their hovels.

    Just like it always has been.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-31 07:02:00 UTC

  • IT’S DONE. (“Is there no one else? Is there no one ELSE!”) No one left to debate

    IT’S DONE.

    (“Is there no one else? Is there no one ELSE!”)

    No one left to debate with except Hoppe. Time to visit. To beg the master’s patience.

    He’ll be annoyed for the first hour. After that. I don’t think so.

    He’ll find some set of enormous holes I need to go fix. But I kind of think I’m done. The rest of the work on institutions is purely empirical and I need to spend a few hundred K for hiring some research assistants under some decent Austrian economist in order to support that work as more than just theory. (Mostly on taxes and interest.)

    Otherwise…. I might have to fine tune a lot of little bits, but the theory is done. From metaphysics, to epistemology, ethics, politics and aesthetics – I think it’s done.

    March of 2001 to December of 2013 on Anarcho Capitalism.

    Most of the theory from September of 2010 until now.

    Most of it I figured out in the spring of 2011, but it has taken me until now to put it all into a consistent framework where I feel that I can address all the arguments.

    The major insight I had last spring, when I drafted my book was that I had not solved the problem of calculation sufficiently, nor the problem of operational language. And it took me most of the summer to do that.

    This fall I kept fighting with the various kinds of theft and property rights, and the problem of history suggesting that property rights were imposed externally and unnatural, and once I understood that history was the organized suppression of discounts, the last piece came together.

    Put a fork in it. Time for frosting: writing and publication.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-30 11:44:00 UTC

  • PERFECTION (on emotions vs actions) –“Emotions and actions are categorically di

    PERFECTION

    (on emotions vs actions)

    –“Emotions and actions are categorically distinct. They rely upon, and inform each other. We need the relevant concepts in order to understand the behavior we witness, but we also need the experience and hermeneutical capacity to properly apply the concepts.”

    “For an emotive state or disposition to casually play a role towards or in an action does not mean it itself constitutes an action, no more than a reason itself is an action. There are motives for actions we do not actualize, as there are behaviors we engage in concurrent or complimentary with motives we may have but are in fact not acting on. “

    “People desire us to act in certain ways because within certain social situations we conceptually and hermeneutically understand those actions as bearing meaning conducive to our interests, demands, or ‘narratives’. ” — Skye Stewart

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-29 10:58:00 UTC

  • In our family, thanks to my mother, “I love you” cost emotional pence – easily e

    In our family, thanks to my mother, “I love you” cost emotional pence – easily earned, easily given. So there were always a lot of pence around to be had. In some families, those same words are far more scarce – emotional Ben Franklins. And the aren’t just lying around everywhere. 🙂

    I like our way better. 🙂

    Love is cheap, and like money, the more you use it the more there is in circulation, and the wealthier everyone becomes.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-29 10:25:00 UTC

  • Just Read: The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized by Owen Flanagan. Excel

    Just Read: The Bodhisattva’s Brain: Buddhism Naturalized by Owen Flanagan. Excellent read. It’s personal and psychological, not civic and political. So from that perspective I can understand it. Not my area or area of interest, but I get it. Thanks Adam.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 18:11:00 UTC

  • (silly)(personal) My trim-fit dress shirts are the right size again. After a yea

    (silly)(personal)

    My trim-fit dress shirts are the right size again. After a year. Secret? Stress. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-28 10:12:00 UTC

  • (the logic of cooperation) is in fact the only new ‘logic’ since ancient times.

    http://www.propertarianism.com/2013/12/24/on-the-reformation-of-praxeology/Praxeology (the logic of cooperation) is in fact the only new ‘logic’ since ancient times. Largely because it is far more complicated that either reason (logic), numbers, (identity), operations of measurement-and-ratio (relations), and physics (causality). It was the hardest problem to solve because there are no constant relations to measure except at very large scale (aggregates).

    I just had to fix Praxeology, and it took me over a decade.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 03:22:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a photo

    Curt Doolittle shared a photo.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-12-26 02:59:00 UTC