DOD Guys En Force:
Ohio, Tennessee, Florida, Kansas. Uh huh.
Don’t wanna give out information at all. lol.
White boys. Soldiers. Warriors.
You see, I love these men. I don’t disdain them. I don’t hold them in any kind of contempt.
Like every liberal does.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-01 01:13:00 UTC
Spencer and Darwin were so close. Unfortunately mises, popper, hayek, brouwer, bridgman, and poincare failed to carry them across the threshold.
Why? Because the combination of women, marx, boaz, freud, created a sentimental alternative to truth – a great lie. And after the great war, keynes created a way to use consumption to recover from it, and the promise of something new to mask the regret of the catastrophe. In other words, we replaced art, heroism, and truth, with crass consumption and, proletarianism to hold the state together, an innumerate pseudoscience to systematize it, and postmodern lies to defend it all.
I understand that we must produce a synthesis of truth and religion. This is the hardest objective to solve. Principally because men need costly rituals in order to defend the principles that they attest to.
I understand how the previous century failed. I understand why the great lies succeeded in the post war era, for the same reason that christianity succeeded in the post-war and post-plaque era.
I think I understand how to create that religion, philosophy, logic, and science.
Please god give me strength, energy, time, and resources to do it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-01 00:46:00 UTC
KNOW THYSELF
Most of us must in the end rely upon introspective query of our accumulated experience – all of which is framed by genetic influence. We confuse quite often the required skepticism of the scientist and the luxury of his indecision with the cautious pessimism of the warrior without the luxury of indecision and call it wisdom rather than mere luxury. This behavior is the philosophical bias of the unaccountable, not of truth. Others choose action given their sense of accountability. But whether choosing accountability or unaccountability is in itself a choice between action and inaction. Between decision and indecision. Between cost and cost evasion. All costs are opportunity costs. Time matters.
Source date (UTC): 2016-02-01 00:30:00 UTC
***”We agree to grant you equal rights in matters of property under the provision that you limit reproduction to kin, and create no moral hazard by bearing offspring that the rest of us must pay to raise and insure. Why? Because it is not necessary to grant you equal rights in any matter. It is merely beneficial for all of us if we do. But this benefit cannot come at the cost of our kin. Or it is of no benefit at all.”***
(there we go)
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-31 14:10:00 UTC
Ruining the Ukrainians with comfort food that is bad for you:
1) Breakfast: Carbonara
2) Lunch: Primavera
3) Dinner: Bolognese
4) Bedtime Sweets: Cannoli
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-31 14:00:00 UTC
http://bit.ly/1nTJNwJUkrainians never believe me when I tell them about this.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-30 15:04:00 UTC
Some clown has created a hookah handle that is bright pink and suggestably phallic.
Watching the five women at the table try to smoke it without looking like they are … is hysterical.
And of course I need to ask them about technique …
Two men. Five women. Correct ratio I think. 😉
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-30 14:44:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-30 13:31:00 UTC
IF MY WORK IS OFFENSIVE TO YOU, THEN YOU ARE A THIEF.
I mean. It’s that simple right? Truth hurts sometimes.
Being called out as a thief is definitely unpleasant. Propertarianism and Testimonialism make your thievery visible. You’ve been caught. I understand that you don’t like being caught. I understand that thieves blame everyone else other than themselves.
If my work is offensive then you’re just a thief. Sorry. Just how it is.
If you don’t understand it, then you just don’t understand it. Your understanding is no more a measure of my work than your understanding of any other logical specialization. Incomprehension is not a criticism. Nor is complexity a criticism. There are many counter-intuitive complexities in human experience.
If you think it’s incomplete, or could be better, well then, I agree with you. Its incomplete and it could be better.
If you think my ambitions are unwise, well, then I acknowledge that possibility.
But in my experience finding the work offensive is an attempt to preserve deceit and theft.
The Transcendence of man requires that we clean our intellectual house, incrementally increase suppression of parasitism, and create great monuments to our success.
We have likely passed peak human. Smaller brains, lower intelligence, higher aggression, and higher reproduction, can destroy mankind’s promise.
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-30 06:13:00 UTC
http://www.realitybychanting.com/Q&A: “CURT, HOW DOES X PRODUCT COMPARE TO OVERSING?”
(for repost to realitybychanting)
Jason,
If you want to stack the current range of business products they look like this:
1 – Multiple Point Solutions (they are a disorganized industry)
2 – Misc variations on 17hats(very small and home business),
3 – Mavenlink (small business),
4 – Oversing (medium and large organizations),
5 – Microsoft Full Stack (very large enterprise),
6 – Microsoft+SAP (fortune 1000).
Now at present what separates the enterprise from the SMB are these features:
1 – Programmable Workflow
2 – Configurable Organizational Structure
3 – Multi-Currency + multi tax
4 – Multi-Language
5 – Project Accounting (minimum)
What further separates the platforms from the apps are:
1 – an api
2 – plugins or the equivalent.
3 – Financial Accounting.
And what makes you a big boy (SAP) is
1 – Parts, Assemblies, Processes
2 – Maintenance, records, and routes.
I don’t care about the SMB sector. What I want is to compete with MSFT in the medium, large, and very large enterprise. And I think we can do that if we can get three more years under us. From there we can move down-market.
Our opinion is this: if you care about decorated software then you’re a home or small business. If you specialize in financial measurement of departments or teams you’re a medium business. if you have spreadsheet UI”s rolling to an accounting process then your an Enterprise. If you have horrible UI’s customized for tasks that are financially interdependent, then your a fortune x000 enterprise.
the industry is indeed disorganized by a proliferation of point solutions in the consumer, home, smb, medium spaces. Microsoft is pushing a very legacy product to the web with moderate success, but without changing their paradigm (desktop apps + sharepoint + outlook + project server + crm + dynamics)
We want to replace the Microsoft stack other than the desktop apps with a single integrated product. (And I am not even sure we can’t do better in apps very shortly – at least, I am sure I know how to, I”m not sure it matters.)
V1 doesn’t have the full feature set yet, so I can’t claim we’re going to succeed untili we do. But I understand how that all will work, and how little extra work we need to do to create it.
Screen + Keyboard (evolves to) > Windows+Mouse (evolves to) > Panels+Touch.
We know from the failure of microsoft’s (obvious) experiment that the tablet UI is not the future of the user interface. Whatsoever. We can see in all the failures, that the 3d user interface on a 2d plane is a failed experiment.
I am not convinced that a visually overlaid 3d experience (head mounted) is viable if for no other reason than it impairs collaboration on the one hand, and makes it very difficult to monitor employee productivity or behavior in the work place on the other hand. (working consistently on dreary tasks is an unnatural behavior after all).
We (I am) fairly confident that the panels+touch user interface defeats the windows user interface going forward – because it can be used both on two dimensional as well well as three dimensional user experiences. in other words, it is pretty hard to beat the 2d experience. Just as it is very hard to beat the paper book as a random access search device.
It is very easy to demonstrate that the database structure of outlook/exchange and sharepoint are technologically archaic, and that the new db model is superior for full text search and retrieval (FB/Amazon/Others)
It is very easy to demonstrate that the design of software using database modification of custom fields is technologically archaic.
It is very easy to demonstrate that the relationship between the application file and the desktop computer’s file system is technologically archaic.
It is very easy to demonstrate that the accounting process we have relied upon since the age of sail is technologically archaic.
The oversing panel model is interesting because it makes it very obvious that there are a limited number of functions taking place in all workplaces that consist of goals (strategy), communication(negotiation), tasks(requirements), protocols(steps), processes (transformations from one thing to the next thing), and measurements and performance statistics.
And that every organization does these things. And that no interface is unique for that purpose (just as SAP says that if you don’t do it their way, then you’re not special, you’re just doing it wrong).
But despite procedural models that we CAN change, that people PROCESS INFORMATION differently and CAN’T change behavior (inexpensively), and so they need various ways of working with that information (granular to overview, and simple to dense).
Now, there is also something very interesting about the Oversing panel model when combined with the Yammer / Facebook model: and that is that context is always preserved. And so every page has a context, and so we can customize the page for the needs of any context.
And so this means we can create a universal application for the management of all business. And if we dont screw up (which admittedly is always a likely possibility), and can build enough features into it, the network effect will drive the SMB to it.
Our original idea was to keep the cost down, but the market has shown us that this is unnecessary since organizations willingly pay large dollars for these features even if home and smb users don’t. So we are shooting for a midrange price point that is low enough but not so low as to capture ‘casual’ (amateur) users.
We will see if this hypothesis succeeds or fails not by oversing’s success or failure, but by whether or not ANYONE solves this generational transformation or not.
Whether Oversing succeeds or fails is more a matter for those of us involved to determine. smile emoticon
Thanks for the great question.
Curt
Source date (UTC): 2016-01-30 06:10:00 UTC