Curt Doolittle

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  • PROGRESS … IF IT ISN”T ONE THING ITS ANOTHER THING. 🙂 I haven’t written much

    PROGRESS … IF IT ISN”T ONE THING ITS ANOTHER THING. 🙂

    I haven’t written much on libertarianism in the past few weeks because the business has required quite a bit of attention.

    First, we had a key developer that it turned out has an alcohol problem. And slowly he degenerated into a disaster and I had to let him go. I was pretty worried about the impact but it’s actually been the opposite – a dramatic improvement. Progress is faster, the office is more peaceful and relaxed, and the quality of work is much better. I don’t like to play project manager on customer gigs because I don’t have the gift, but on products it’s something I enjoy. So, I’ve taken us all ‘Kanban’ which is a nice name for how we used to develop software with yellow pads of paper, a white board and index cards. 🙂 We have a nice organized backlog, and we’re shutting down issues as fast as we can. It’s great. In the past week we’ve gotten features and work done that I’ve been frustrated about for months.

    Today I have to pay a ton of bills both business and personal. Sigh. 🙂

    So I’ll have to get the business back on track in order to get my writing back on track.

    One book I hadn’t read before is the Age of Fracture by Daniel Rogers. Quite good. Vague. As a participant in that revolution I’m kind of curious why Rogers describes these movements as less directed, and less of a combat to kill socialism and postmodernism than they were.

    We made intentional decisions to take conservatism and libertarianism the directions that we did, just as the postmodernists did. We had the good fortune to do the world a favor and kill off communism and socialism, but postmodernism is the vampire that we can’t seem to put a stake through.

    WE DID IT ON PURPOSE WITH FORETHOUGHT.

    I don’t know about the other side. But I was writing pamphlets all over the place in the 80’s and 90’s and we were discussing strategy and acting on it. What we didn’t expect was immigration, nor the rate of the fall of the nuclear family, and the emergence of single women and single mothers as the policy determining force in the electorate.

    But our financial strategy worked. That was the interesting part.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-21 12:07:00 UTC

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    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-20 14:04:00 UTC

  • JEALOUS? Ok. So. Apparently I’ve been chosen to be one of the judges at the fina

    JEALOUS?

    Ok. So. Apparently I’ve been chosen to be one of the judges at the finals of the Ukrainian amateur stripping competition. I did not volunteer. I did not know such a thing existed. It just happened. (‘Cause I can work a room.)

    Seriously. I’m not making this up. Who could?

    My life. Is. Utterly. Insane.

    Pinch me.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 19:10:00 UTC

  • THINGS I MISS Not much. Starbucks and Tullys. Italian food. Rainier. Sitting on

    THINGS I MISS

    Not much. Starbucks and Tullys. Italian food. Rainier. Sitting on the Colby’s deck at sunset. Driving my porsche with the top down in the sun.

    I dont miss “things”. And american life is permeated with stimulation from things instead of people.

    I meet and enjoy new people every week in Kiev. Its awesome.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 04:55:00 UTC

  • Classes are the product of genetic distribution, constantly regressing toward th

    Classes are the product of genetic distribution, constantly regressing toward the mean. And prevented only by class inbreeding.

    Imagine a city, populated largely by the lower middle, middle and upper middle classes, where the very wealthy signal with hedonic crassness, and the remainder, signal with good dress, good taste, and good behavior.

    That is kiev.

    That is Milan.

    Credit systems have produced ills that redistributive systems do not. Redistributive systems have produced ills that credit systems do not. But fiat systems that attempt to create employment in the puritanical model appear to produce the worst ends of all.

    That is not a conclusion that i expected to come to.

    But if we understand that the lower classes lack the ability to do better than they do, the anglo model, as the germans argued from the beginning, is wrong.

    If we avoid the draconian, it seems wiser to pay them for public service, and for controlling their reproduction, rather than constantly distorting the economy with fiat money and credit.

    This constitutes is a voluntary exchange and therefore not contradictory with theory.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-19 03:48:00 UTC

  • QUITE BY ACCIDENT I’m with one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen and a bu

    QUITE BY ACCIDENT

    I’m with one of Ukraine’s most successful businessmen and a bunch of awesome people in a club talking biz while fending off innocent ukrainian girls who feel awkward.

    There is a breeze coming in, over the bar, from the water.

    Its hot. The breeze is a tensely anticipated gift. Appreciated when it comes. Its randomness makes it more intensely pleasurable.

    The bass is vibrating the bar. The coffee ripples in the cup. There is a lot if ice and lonely bottles. I don’t even know what is in some of them.

    Bartenders are slow. Attentive. Relaxed. Playful. Conversational. The music is the opposite.

    People are happy because they have low expectations.

    I tell the guy from Argentina that life is beautiful. He agrees. He smiles and grabs the guy from france for a toast. I pat the back of the guy from scotland. No one notices but us.

    Its beautiful. We smile. Disperse. Repeat.

    Perfect.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-17 18:55:00 UTC

  • RATES OF DEPRECIATION I write a great deal about this subject, but some pictures

    RATES OF DEPRECIATION

    I write a great deal about this subject, but some pictures do the subject greater justice.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-17 02:56:00 UTC

  • NO NEURONS TONIGHT Going to have to go kill zombies or aliens with a mouse ‘caus

    NO NEURONS TONIGHT

    Going to have to go kill zombies or aliens with a mouse ’cause there is nothing working between my ears tonight. 🙂

    Cheers

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-15 14:50:00 UTC

  • PRIVATIZE IRS INSPECTORS AND REQUIRE (a) they have a law degree, and (b) they ar

    PRIVATIZE IRS INSPECTORS AND REQUIRE (a) they have a law degree, and (b) they are CPA’s, and (c) that they are bonded and insured – just like lawyers and doctors.

    This will mean that only very good people will conduct audits and investigations, and that their careers will depend on their neutrality.

    It also means that they will make quite a bit of money, won’t waste their time, will protect their ‘meal ticket’, and will be in short supply, so we don’t have to see them very often.

    Of course, just doing away with the entire institution would be better… 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-15 09:06:00 UTC

  • PRIVATIZE IRS INSPECTORS AND REQUIRE (a) they have a law degree, and (b) they ar

    PRIVATIZE IRS INSPECTORS AND REQUIRE (a) they have a law degree, and (b) they are CPA’s, and (c) that they are bonded and insured – just like lawyers and doctors.

    This will mean that only very good people will conduct audits and investigations, and that their careers will depend on their neutrality.

    Of course, just doing away with the entire institution would be better… 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2013-05-15 09:05:00 UTC