RECOMMENDED BRONZE AGE EUROPEAN HISTORY BOOKS
1) JP Mallory: In Search of Indo Europeans
2) The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
3) The Early Germans by Malcolm Todd
4) The Ancient Paths: Discovering the Lost Map of Celtic Europe
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-08 00:22:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 14:45:00 UTC
SUCCESS?
1) Develop a long-term model that you can use to make endless decisions with.
2) Decide, instruct and act decisively and consistently in accordance with that model. Big decisions are not as impactful as the thousand decisions everyone makes every day.
3) Reduce your model to a mantra or phrase that all staff can use to make concurrent decisions in the multitudinous tie breakers that face all of us when choosing between relatively equal outcomes. Otherwise they will act in their own interests, or with false economy on those thousand little decisions every day.
4) Generate opportunities that you can act on far in advance when they are very cheap. (Act on what is important but not urgent.) Make lots of cheap early bets. Plant lots of seeds.
5) In the face of complexity, choose the solution that covers most bets while accomplishing the central objective, not the most efficient or optimum solution.
6) Revise your model whenever possible to accommodate new learning.
7) Act as truthfully, morally and ethically as possible with your peers and subordinates, and as ruthlessly as possible with competitors. A good reputation produces discounts on all actions and transactions.
8) Attract, Build, and Keep Key Talent. Dispose of weak talent.
9) Be extremely jealous of your think-time, and make sure you get plenty of it.
10) Investors are creditors, not friends.
11) Work in the interests of your customers and staff and they will take care of your investors. You can’t do it any other way.
12) Work more than anyone else does. Because hard work is all that makes a marginal difference.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 11:03:00 UTC
What’s on my mind? Money and economy, politics and war.
But pretty frustrated today. I want to remain accessible. But I really can’t afford to invest in training people without some knowledge of the Philosophy of science. Mathematicians and computer scientists, physicists and to some degree economists are relatively easy. Although in retrospect it is pretty clear that economics is not a practiced as a science of man but as a science of the deception of man. Not how to improve cooperation but how to force productivity.
And so I am frustrated by conversations with conservatives a
Just as readily by libertarians. And so I am having one of those down days where I think I am wasting my time. :(.
On another note:
Josh Jeppson said something smart last night: that Propertarianism isn’t conservative (reactionary) but innovative. That’s true.
QUESTION:
But then, how do I position it?
ANSWER:
—“You don’t want to go back to something (maybe some things but not all), so you’re not a reactionary, you don’t want to conserve what we have so you aren’t a conservative, and you don’t want to take what we have further, so you aren’t a progressive. You are (gasp) a revolutionary”—Adam Felix
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 04:42:00 UTC
Curt Doolittle shared a post.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 03:42:00 UTC
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca5_1436194719#fD7V2FhQdbdX4HjR.01UKRAINIAN JUSTICE SYSTEM IS FAST AND EFFICIENT!
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-07 02:58:00 UTC
(damn. tired. heat. ack. )
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 14:25:00 UTC
I have been looking into political correctness. I’m sure you must have covered this, but can’t see where – unless it’s just covered by generally being untruthful. I came across the book ‘Thought Prison: the fundamental nature of Political Correctness’, by Professor Bruce Charlton, which looks a useful discourse on the subject. The author uses the term instead of liberalism or socialism.
He believes that the PC are nihilists, truth is a social construct and that this strikes at the root of vitality.
What is your take on the subject? Apologies for the Amazon link, but it was the best I could find – there’s also a useful blog on this that FB didn’t seem to want to let me post:
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 12:23:00 UTC
The Doolittle (De Dolietta) family is small. Always has been. Always has been martial.
But my favorite of the few historical records in literature is a story of a pikeman who, tired of listening to the complaints of one of his fellows on guard duty, without warning, without words, without emotion killed him in the midst of his fellow soldiers. Saying only that it needed doing for a long time and it was done.
Ack.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 10:15:00 UTC
In a family, ***REGARDLESS OF SIZE*** if everyone takes care of educating the rank below them, then the entire group will prosper.
It doesn’t work the other way though. ie: democracy is a bad thing.
Source date (UTC): 2015-07-06 05:54:00 UTC