Curt Doolittle

Form: Short Note

  • did I tell you three years ago? The clock is ticking on Oracle, the bell already

    http://www.businessinsider.com/boxnet-2011-9What did I tell you three years ago? The clock is ticking on Oracle, the bell already rang on Sun. And the local hero is in trouble because of innovator’s dilemmas. Why? Technology tools are being invented as a byproduct of other revenue streams, not in and of themselves. There is no capital in tools.

    Goes to my dictum: “For any existing company, any sufficiently competitive innovation cannot be expressed in financial reports.” This optimization of the PAST is what leads to innovator’s dilemmas. The “Financialization” of any business is must of necessity cause it’s future destruction.

    Worse, the softly-typed programming languages have won. Anyone who doesn’t understand that will not be in the tools business in ten years.

    Do I need to say that again?

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-29 09:33:00 UTC

  • mom. Ever wonder why the government built that airport on the Family farm near t

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_RedGee mom. Ever wonder why the government built that airport on the Family farm near the canadian border? Turns out they had a pretty strange reason. 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-22 00:45:00 UTC

  • BP 115/70. Pulse 76. Low cholesterol. Down ten pounds in seven months, and only

    BP 115/70. Pulse 76. Low cholesterol. Down ten pounds in seven months, and only fourteen more to go. Sure, the allergies are awful, but otherwise eat your heart out. 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-21 15:05:00 UTC

  • A blog reader wrote yesterday telling me to ‘lighten up’. And I’d like to. I wou

    A blog reader wrote yesterday telling me to ‘lighten up’. And I’d like to. I would. But we’re in this mess partly because Hayek was a softie. Friedman, Rothbard and Hoppe not so much – Friedman fought tooth and nail. If you’re in the intellectual arena for entertainment I understand that. But I’m in this for our civilization. It’s a matter of life and death. It’s not entertainment.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-17 12:17:00 UTC

  • life is about choices. And the majority – not all, but a majority – of Americans

    http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/14/geithner_were_in_an_early_stage_of_a_crisis.html#.TnDY_UZ32dA.facebookYes life is about choices. And the majority – not all, but a majority – of Americans are dissatisfied with their government’s treatment of them, and are willing to endure hardship to punish it. It isn’t that complicated. The definition of irrational is doing something that doesn’t get you what you want. Doing something painful that gets people what they want, is purely rational. Humans do what they don’t like every day in a multitude of ways in order to get what they prefer.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-14 12:43:00 UTC

  • Go see Soderbergh’s “Contagion”. Seriously. Fantastic

    Go see Soderbergh’s “Contagion”. Seriously. Fantastic.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-09-12 18:54:00 UTC

  • Something profound for economists

    Something profound for economists

    Source date (UTC): 2011-08-30 23:35:00 UTC

  • Um. Guys. C’mon. When an attractive women that you don’t know, and is clearly ou

    Um. Guys. C’mon. When an attractive women that you don’t know, and is clearly out of your league sends you a friend request, it’s because she’s a scammer. OK? Scammers.org. Once you approve them, so do your friends. Save the rest of your friends the trouble. It’s one of the new Man Rules. ‘K?

    Source date (UTC): 2011-08-28 14:53:00 UTC

  • Recommendation: TAJ collision center. Issaquah. Fast, quality, reasonable prices

    Recommendation: TAJ collision center. Issaquah. Fast, quality, reasonable prices. I’ve been using them for the past couple of years, and they get it perfect every time. (My cars are low to the ground and so curbs and speed bumps are a hazard.)

    Source date (UTC): 2011-08-26 16:21:00 UTC

  • I ask every restaurant for the ingredients before ordering – often to the dismay

    I ask every restaurant for the ingredients before ordering – often to the dismay of my friends. I asked again today. They skip one: champagne vinegar. Which, like all vinegars, is the happy home of the worlds favorite preservative: sulfites. After the next hour of dizzy spells, that means I’m going so sleep for twelve hours and wake up with a variety of horrid allergic reactions. — Going to have to give up on restaurants soon I think., and get a better kitchen again.

    Source date (UTC): 2011-08-26 16:18:00 UTC