Curt Doolittle

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  • TEST IF YOU’RE A GENTLEMAN? I do not rescue spiders – living in Seattle broke th

    TEST IF YOU’RE A GENTLEMAN?

    I do not rescue spiders – living in Seattle broke that habit. I will very infrequently dry my hair when in hurry, needs cutting, or if it’s cold. And I will compliment a woman’s performance to my closest friends even if it isn’t true – it ends inquiry in advance. Otherwise the list has nothing objectionable.

    ( BTW: Besides sailing a boat and riding a horse, I can also sew and tailor in a pinch, change a tire, fire any gun, bandage a wound, write a contract, and give a bit of money to the little old babushka’s on the street. The list isn’t long enough. 😉 )

    http://www.countrylife.co.uk/features/the-39-steps-to-being-a-gentleman-78780

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 12:52:00 UTC

  • WHY ARE PRICES STICKY? 1) Any change that forces reordering of the PSST (network

    WHY ARE PRICES STICKY?

    1) Any change that forces reordering of the PSST (network of production) is a transaction cost that all seek to avoid, and avoid more so when risk increase from declining price pressure. People hold out. The entire chain gets more efficient. And they only switch when it’s no longer possible. This is just what people do. Particularly if relationships are involved. The more complex the relations the worse it is.

    2) The individual who lives with little savings and high cashflow demands interprets changing jobs as the highest transaction cost other than divorce or devastating illness.

    3) An entire organization can come apart if you reduce pay, because it affects the entire network of responsibilities of each person.

    4) As the marginal value of talent has increased, and the marginal value of fixed capital has decreased, the influence of shocks on talent places higher risk to the organization- people are very difficult to replace but the best are the first to leave.

    5) Net is that the side effect of little savings and higher consumption at high velocity, is stickier everything and worse adjustment to shocks.

    Here in the ‘less advantaged world’ it’s not a problem. Oversupply of labor. Everyone is overqualified for everything. Lack of credit keeps everyone poor. Lack of credit because the government cannot be trusted not to appropriate anything and everything.

    -Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 12:32:00 UTC

  • Not sure I care about men who click. I care about those who will fight, and more

    Not sure I care about men who click. I care about those who will fight, and more about those who will kill. Selling excuses to the effeminate for clicks equates attention with action. It’s meaningless. If you wont fight and kill you’re a free rider. It’s that simple.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 11:53:00 UTC

  • TRANSITIONS IN THE WORKPLACE (worth repeating) 1700’s-1800’s, imitation of the m

    TRANSITIONS IN THE WORKPLACE

    (worth repeating)

    1700’s-1800’s, imitation of the military order in business (command and control) driven by british men doing service, getting some money, and going into business in the colonies.

    1920-1980 the bureaucratic order of management via socialism, as the family is replaced by professional management.

    1980+ the entrepreneurial movement and JIT. (the great purge) the middle managers are fired en mass, and the governments abandon socialism per se.

    1990+ the team model brought to america from japan where it was brought in from japan.

    2000+ the agile movement into technology brings JIT to Agile(iterations) and Kanban(streams) so that higher operational tempo prevents large errors by using many small changes, requiring lower held inventory. side effect is greater social and interpersonal commitment.

    2010+ the social movement into business:

    2016+ the agile and social movement spread to the entire business.

    WHY: the transition from pure slave labor under the military order, to bureaucracy under the socialist order, to entrepreneurialism and teams, to the purely professional order.

    Same happens to organization sizes and durations. Companies rely less on fixed capital and more on tech and talent. Companies get smaller and more specialized.

    Careers move from lifetimes to decades.

    Now arguable we are in seven year cycles of both.

    So when you say ‘social’ all it means is that people practice more ‘discretion’ in the workplace because they do increasingly dynamic or custom or small-run work, and less repetition of the same process (and if they do, they get paid peanuts).

    Theoretical limit is we’re all unmarried, all unemployed, and all part time contractors, and companies all make small bits for each other.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 10:25:00 UTC

  • HAVE HIGHER EXPECTATIONS OF OURSELVES. THEY DO TOO. (via Roman) Time to change e

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhadYJKZ0V0WE HAVE HIGHER EXPECTATIONS OF OURSELVES. THEY DO TOO.

    (via Roman)

    Time to change everyone’s perspective.

    Ramz Paul just hit this one out of the park.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 10:11:00 UTC

  • This should fit in with HBD somewhere. I’ve long known about the British seeing

    This should fit in with HBD somewhere. I’ve long known about the British seeing only the fish and the Chinese seeing the background and that you can’t think anything there isn’t a word for.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 08:42:00 UTC

  • Curt Doolittle shared a post

    Curt Doolittle shared a post.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 07:41:00 UTC

  • DEAR SEATTLE FRIENDS : ARRIVAL ON TUESDAY. Well I finally have a flight that is

    DEAR SEATTLE FRIENDS : ARRIVAL ON TUESDAY.

    Well I finally have a flight that is neither through a strike in Germany or a terrorist attack in France, and where I don’t have a flu.

    So arriving Tuesday.

    It will take me a bit to recover from the trip. And we are 11 hours out of phase. Morning there is evening for my body.

    Autism doesn’t like airlines.

    See you soon.

    Curt.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 07:19:00 UTC

  • THE TECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF RELIGIONS The technical properties of a religion are

    THE TECHNICAL PROPERTIES OF RELIGIONS

    The technical properties of a religion are rules or norms, and a set of (costly) rituals, and a mythology, that together provide a means of people to collect in numbers safely, and feel the safety in numbers.

    There are really three properties of religions, and all religions use these properties differently. I tend to represent them as a triangle, saying that different approaches emphasize one or more of the properties.

    1) Legal Religions – which to some degree the west practices – they contain no mysticism. American judges are fairly close to priests in their devotion to the ‘sacredness’ of the law. (future-looking)

    2) Behavioral Religions contain spirituality – the pack response. Emphasis is on ritual for generating the pack response. Stoicism, Shintoism, and to some degree early buddhism. (past-looking)

    3) Supernatural Religion. The pack response is obtained through the telling of narrative, and the promise of some mystical reward. (escapism).

    In practice most cultures use multiple ‘religions’ for the purpose of creating shared experience, ethos, behavior and trust. We tend to focus on monotheism because the church FORCED us to, because jews force themselves to, and because islam forces its adherents to.

    The function as a hierarchy of intelligence dependent upon the abilities of the population.

    Mythos at the bottom, for Virtue Ethics.

    Rituals in the middle for Deontological Ethics

    Procedures at the top for Teleological Ethics.

    Hence we do see that as IQ increases the religious emphasis increases from the virtue ethic of the young and ignorant, to the ritual ethic of the young adult, to the technical ethic of the mature.

    If one is raised in a religion, It is hard to view religion as a purely ritualistic purely programatic form of education and training. But for all intents and purposes, the function of religious myth is to get you to imagine a ‘model’ by which to made decisions; to practice costly rituals with others in order to invoke the submission of the pack response; and to teach you traditional rules of the social order as if they are physical properties of objective reality (metaphysical) rather than merely a group evolutionary strategy that has been demonstrated to work at perpetuating the population.

    If you told a mathematician he had to forget math he would say “well I don’t know how to do that – or think otherwise”, and the religious person says the same.

    That is why these things work.

    Curt Doolittle

    The Philosophy of Aristocracy

    The Propertarian Institute, Kiev Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 05:58:00 UTC

  • WHAT WOULD YOU TRADE FOR MORE INCOME EQUALITY? Income inequality is the result o

    WHAT WOULD YOU TRADE FOR MORE INCOME EQUALITY?

    Income inequality is the result of objective inequality of value to others – in other words, income inequality is evidence that you are not valuable to others. So, to make yourself valuable to others, what voluntary exchanges could you enter into that would equalize income without impeding the voluntary organization of invention, risk-taking, capitalization, production, distribution and trade?

    (Personally I would love it if the lower classes would do my cooking, housework, laundry, yard, home maintenance, and shopping while I am risking everything I own to create a new business, and paying people well by doing it, and am entirely responsible for the outcome. Moreover, if income were equal I would not be able to risk everything I own – nor would most entrepreneurs like me. America invents the future for the world for this reason and americans live better than the rest of the world – albeit more unequally with each other as a consequence. )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-11-15 05:38:00 UTC