Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • altruism” #tcit #tlot #Nrx

    http://t.co/jbKfg7uvkc”Pathological altruism” #tcit #tlot #Nrx

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-08 09:28:00 UTC

  • (We all have mental self images. I still think of myself as the kid in the mirro

    (We all have mental self images. I still think of myself as the kid in the mirror when I was 19. And it’s still strange to me when people call me Mr Doolittle. I keep thinking their talking to my grandfather. Mom says I am peter pan. I never wanted to grow up. It seemed pointlessly difficult to be an adult. Maybe that’s why I wanted to earn fortunes: so I could be peter pan. Probably. ) 🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-08 03:21:00 UTC

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL GAME OF THE DAY. (old repost) (humor) Pulling out of a hotel parki

    PSYCHOLOGICAL GAME OF THE DAY.

    (old repost) (humor)

    Pulling out of a hotel parking lot in to traffic. Waiting to turn.

    Blonde boy, thin hair, black cap with skateboard asks “Please! Please! Give me your car! Please!?”

    My mind races through multitude of life lessons i might deliver at this moment.

    I choose one: “What will you trade me for it?”

    Shock. Open mouth. Silence. Fantasies fill his mind.

    Before he can gather his wits, I say “I want your soul.”

    Incomprehension. Pause. Twinge of fear.

    “I want your soul.”. I smile. “For the car.”

    Half smile mixed with confusion.

    I say, “Yes?” “I thought so. I have it already.”

    I smile, and notice a few horrified adult onlookers. Then pull into traffic.

    He’s never going to forget that moment. I’m sure.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 17:02:00 UTC

  • AMERICA HAS A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM EXACERBATED BY THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL HEAL

    AMERICA HAS A MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM EXACERBATED BY THE PREVALENCE OF MENTAL HEALTH DRUGS.

    The revelation that Umpqua Community College shooter Chris Mercer used the screen name “lithium love,” along with other references to prescription medication, strongly suggests that the gunman was taking psychiatric drugs that have been linked to violent outbursts.

    —“There are a number of indications that Harper-Mercer had mental health or behavioral issues. His screen name on some social media sites was “lithium love.” Lithium is used as a psychiatric medication.”—

    Lithium is used to enhance the effect of SSRI drugs, a number of which, “have also been linked to increase risk for violent, even homicidal behavior,” reports Time.

    On one of his Facebook posts, Mercer also made reference to a number of different prescription drugs he was taking.

    “I have a pill bottle with like five types of pills mixed in. I don’t know which ones are the sleep aids, so I just took four of each,” wrote Mercer.

    (DISCLAIMER: I have been taking mild prescription drugs for my obsessive aspie-thinking for thirty years, which dramatically reduces the challenge of changing contexts – and so I have some familiarity with the effects of these drugs even if I cannot really comprehend the desire to do violence. Or well, other than in the abstract political sense. 😉 )

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-06 16:35:00 UTC

  • CEO LEADERSHIP: SOCIOPATHY OR TRUST? 😉 When you are way out in front, impossibl

    CEO LEADERSHIP: SOCIOPATHY OR TRUST? 😉

    When you are way out in front, impossible to understand, and incapable of conveying your ideas across the chasm, you develop means of building trust that compensates for comprehension.

    This is mistakenly called sociopathy by analysts of successful entrepreneurs: the progressives cannot imagine the severity of the dunning Kruger effect as you move downward in the talent pool.

    The most effective means I have found for developing trust is accessibility, participation, and over-communication. If you answer enough ‘why’ questions honestly then they just start trusting you. And to maintain that trust merely publicly admit to failures now and then and explain why you were mistaken.

    As a consequence you teach your organization to use the same patterns as you do, and to come to similar conclusions.

    I am unable and unwilling to micro manage. So it is the only option available to me.

    But I can also move an entire organization in a different direction in ninety days precisely because I force my people to manage themselves, and the don’t need me to micro manage.

    There are serious negative externalities to my method that have repeatedly caused me catastrophe: these people tend to think they are better than they are and not dependent on my direction and counsel.

    And when I leave a company the consequence is always the same.

    Decline.

    I wish I knew how to fix it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-05 09:55:00 UTC

  • Gotta tell you that elites in every field other than CEO’s and a minority of the

    Gotta tell you that elites in every field other than CEO’s and a minority of the academy are disproportionately creepy people.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-05 05:20:00 UTC

  • SMART PEOPLE ALSO MASTER LYING The people with the greatest verbal ability are j

    SMART PEOPLE ALSO MASTER LYING

    The people with the greatest verbal ability are just as likely evenly distributed as the people with the greatest spatial, empathic, and physical ability. Meaning that if a group of people produces excellent spoken and written ideas, they are equally if not more so capable of producing the most excellent spoken and written lies.

    The evidence is what it is.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-04 09:25:00 UTC

  • Of course I talk to you. I learn. I get better and what I do when I talk to you.

    Of course I talk to you. I learn. I get better and what I do when I talk to you. Besides, you don’t think The Cathedral is going to like what I have to say: that you should hang them all and congratulate yourselves afterward.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-03 11:31:00 UTC

  • THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF BETA MALES JUST WENT MAINSTREAM (shooter declares h

    THE PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF BETA MALES JUST WENT MAINSTREAM

    (shooter declares himself and other shooters as disenfranchised beta male)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-02 05:15:00 UTC

  • Husbands are a lot of work. So why do you want one? Children are MUCH more work

    Husbands are a lot of work. So why do you want one? Children are MUCH more work than husbands. So why do you want children? So maybe that’s a man’s job. To train a woman to care for children. lol

    Source date (UTC): 2015-10-01 09:06:00 UTC