Curt Doolittle

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  • natural to attempt to benefit from a market economy while avoiding any participa

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/index.php/2010/11/the-nature-of-man/It’s natural to attempt to benefit from a market economy while avoiding any participation in it.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-12-05 17:40:00 UTC

  • Amanda thought it would be fun to dye my beard because of the advancing gray. I

    Amanda thought it would be fun to dye my beard because of the advancing gray. I humored her. It was a rainy saturday afternoon and she was insistent. Now I look ten years younger, but I feel like I cheated on an exam. The things we do to entertain our loved ones.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-12-05 14:23:00 UTC

  • More weekend writing: “And I do not understand, why we grant particular grace to

    More weekend writing: “And I do not understand, why we grant particular grace to current democracies – the merit of which is still in play, until we observe how we fare now that the rest of the world has adopted capitalist instituions, and erased our prior advantage. It certainly appears, that instead of Democracy, the award goes to capitalist institutions, calculation and incentives. Democracy is irrelevant.”

    Source date (UTC): 2010-12-05 14:19:00 UTC

  • In the contest between Denial, Skepticism and Faith, the only rational position

    In the contest between Denial, Skepticism and Faith, the only rational position is Skepticism. The problem is, that since we are never certain of our knowledge, the boundary between skepticism and denial is simply a difference in the perception of risk and reward between the people debating. Therefore, whenever such a debate arises, these are not questions of truth. They are questions of cost and benefit.

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    Source date (UTC): 2010-12-05 13:48:00 UTC

  • insightful, and possibly profound advice. As always. OTOH, I do not think it is

    http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20101202_geopolitical_journey_part_7_polandBrilliant, insightful, and possibly profound advice. As always.

    OTOH, I do not think it is a forgone conclusion that a German-Russian Entent is bad for europe or the world. In fact, I think such a relationship is economically, and socially useful for both germany and russia. Such an alliance mat be a necessity that the anglo world should see as a useful and necessary one — largely because ours is fragmenting.

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    Source date (UTC): 2010-12-03 14:55:00 UTC

  • I’ll finish with this: Entrepreneurship is the art of finding problems and solvi

    I’ll finish with this: Entrepreneurship is the art of finding problems and solving them for less cost than the customer is willing to pay for it. So entrepreneurship is starting with a set of customers and working backward to the solution, not with the idea, and searching for customers. And hopefully that process is entertaining. At least, that’s why I do it…. And this advice is no value to the zillions of guys out there doing the opposite. They don’t want to hear it.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-07-26 23:46:00 UTC

  • Hi. Thanks for the invite. Interesting posts. But having built or founded a numb

    Hi. Thanks for the invite. Interesting posts. But having built or founded a number of companies from 5M-150M, I have to say that most of the inspirational propaganda read be entrepreneurs is largely nonsense. Most CEO’s are quantitative operational disciplinarians, quantitative disciplined salesmen or quantitative disciplined master craftsmen and by and large they are pedantically boring to people outside of their field. Ideas are cheap. Passion is cheap. Planning is cheap. Strategy is cheap. Operational discipline is costly. Credit is very expensive. But most importantly, customers are priceless: they are the ultimate scarcity. If you have customers, then you have a business. If you don’t, you have a very expensive form of entertainment.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-07-26 23:45:00 UTC

  • Another silly season: A sure sign of recession or recovery? Divorces and breakup

    Another silly season: A sure sign of recession or recovery? Divorces and breakups. Yet another animal spirit, cognitive dissonance, epistemic failure from our inability to isolate environmental signals. People breaking up is an illustration of the change in sentiments. Seems like it’s the season. Next signals to look for? Coalescence around a new hierarchy of status symbols. Emergence of new myths.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-06-12 13:14:00 UTC

  • A Good Day. I wrote ten thousand words before lunch. That’s about three thousand

    A Good Day. I wrote ten thousand words before lunch. That’s about three thousand words an hour or fifty words a minute. Sushi+2LitersOfWater+TenHoursOfSleep=Priceless. Water is better than caffeine if you’re rested.

    Source date (UTC): 2010-04-13 17:34:00 UTC

  • thinking about density. In the office. In cities. In civilizations. “Human densi

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/I’m thinking about density. In the office. In cities. In civilizations.

    http://www.capitalismv3.com/

    “Human density is not the panacea our planners and utopians think it is. Density is toxicity, it decreases the disease gradient, and it leads to political tyranny and instability, and it becomes increasingly difficult to concentrate capital and therefore productivity.”

    Source date (UTC): 2010-04-13 12:17:00 UTC