Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • There are dates, girlfriends, wives and mothers. Gotta know what you’re after

    There are dates, girlfriends, wives and mothers. Gotta know what you’re after.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-30 17:31:00 UTC

  • “Biology is not destiny. Biology is history. But it also constrains what can bec

    —“Biology is not destiny. Biology is history. But it also constrains what can become history.”—

    Eli Harman

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-30 05:08:00 UTC

  • Why brunettes? They are fine as they are, and don’t feel the need to get more at

    Why brunettes? They are fine as they are, and don’t feel the need to get more attention. The more I think about america as the country of attention-starved children, the more obvious it becomes.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-28 11:33:00 UTC

  • ASPIES NEED PERMISSION TO BE THEMSELVES It’s interesting that my posts on Aspien

    ASPIES NEED PERMISSION TO BE THEMSELVES

    It’s interesting that my posts on Aspieness, and the Autistic-Solipsistic spectrum are so popular. I really don’t want that to be part of my brand, but it helps people who are also borderline, and it explains, by analogy, our equally important moral spectrum blindness in the context of politics and ethics – so It’s hard not to use it.

    Fashion, Tattoos, Aspieness, Autistic-Solipsistic Spectrum, and gender differences in perception. I still think the most popular posts I’ve ever written were on Tattoos and Fashion. lol

    But really, aspies are a lot happier if they give themselves permission to be the creatures that we are. So I sort of see my struggle as something I can use to make life easier for others – ’cause it was not very easy for me. I had to work like hell. lol

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 03:06:00 UTC

  • A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS A good CEO makes you feel safe takin

    A GOOD CEO MAKES YOU FEEL SAFE TAKING RISKS

    A good CEO makes you feel safe taking risks in the interests of the company, and unsafe taking risks that do not. I tell people “I will not let you fail”. If they fail, I congratulate them on what they learned. The absence of failure: efficiency, is a chimera. If you aim for efficiency you will calcify your people, and your organization and it will not respond to the market.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-26 02:23:00 UTC

  • ASPIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE (riffing off the shooter) (Aspies are usually pretty

    ASPIES AND AMERICAN CULTURE

    (riffing off the shooter)

    (Aspies are usually pretty peaceful people. But while we can lack from a little to a lot of empathy, we have normal levels of desire for social integration. This is one of the reasons aspies are attracted to rothbardian libertarianism – it’s an anti-social philosophy in the sense that it consists of rules that do not require one to empathize in order to function. However, we do get the people who are extremely frustrated by constant social rejection, and who become angry and depressed because of it. As we see in the news today. Social anxiety drugs are pretty effective but it takes years to re-learn social skills. And most aspies are left to flounder on their own without help in learning those skills. Some of us are just annoyingly persistent and relentlessly pursue them. In my case, so that I could chase girls. 🙂 One of the problems the rest of the world does not see, is how the lack of family and culture in america is alienating, and more so than any other culture I have witnessed – except for niches in japan – americans are lonely people starved for attention. Which is why they idolize people who get a lot of it, even by crass means. So it’s a culture more likely to foster alienated people than cultures that both have normative rules that are highly enforced, and extended family and social networks that train people to cope. Very dysfunctional society really. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-25 13:31:00 UTC

  • NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION

    NO. REALLY. I’M A NICE GUY*. ASK AROUND. BUT THIS IS MY JOB. THIS IS COMPETITION. SORRY. NO QUARTER, NO MERCY.

    If liberty is a social function for you, then join a tupperware club or something but don’t get in the way. For some of us. Liberty is not entertainment. It’s what we’re working on. It’s what we’re fighting for every day:

    —“Liberty in practice, in our lifetime”—

    (I’m sitting here in Kiev with a very clear view of the fact that liberty is only possible with an armed and trained militia willing to die to preserve their freedom from tyranny. Everything else isn’t freedom, it’s permission.)

    ———–

    *(er. Well, before some Seattleite jumps on me, yes, I have a deserved reputation of ruthlessness, but that’s business too. But in person I’m a hamster. )

    ht: Juan Sebastian Ortiz / Andy Curzon

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 06:49:00 UTC

  • HIGH TIME PARENTING NOT HIGH INVESTMENT PARENTING Strange watching people in oth

    HIGH TIME PARENTING NOT HIGH INVESTMENT PARENTING

    Strange watching people in other countries raise children. I was definitely raised in the puritan protestant tradition to be an independent person as soon as possible.

    But you watch children in the states today and there is obviously something very wrong with them. Almost all of them. And then you come to a place with a traditional family like Ukraine, and watch the kids and … there isnt’ anything wrong with them. So what’s the difference?

    They aren’t constantly trying to get attention from parents who don’t want to give it to them.

    Now, it’s not high investment parenting. In fact, it’s kind of strange how LITTLE effort parents put into competitive child rearing. Instead, they just pay attention to them. A lot of attention. At home. WIth family.

    That must be what it is that Iove about this country. I think that’s it. Americans are all desperately seeking attention on their terms. Here, nobody is. They’re seeking experiences, and wealth, and opportunity. But they’re not desperate for attention. They aren’t ‘crazy’ like so many americans. They aren’t desperately trying to find meaning in political movements, in environmental movements, in different kinds of spiritualism as a means of filling that hole in their souls.

    Is it that simple?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-21 04:34:00 UTC

  • STATUS AS PROPERTY? BUT PEOPLE SURE ACT LIKE IT. RIGHT? The fact that people def

    STATUS AS PROPERTY? BUT PEOPLE SURE ACT LIKE IT. RIGHT?

    The fact that people defend their philosophical positions if their self image depends upon them is only confirmation that people treat status, even self image, as their property. I think If I explain truths and falsehoods – you can’t have a property right to falsehoods – this becomes clear. Just as you can’t claim market opportunities are property – because you don’t know if they’re true or not.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 23:27:00 UTC

  • HELPING AUTISTIC SPECTRUM BOYS, YOUNG MEN, AND MEN. Entry into the autism spectr

    HELPING AUTISTIC SPECTRUM BOYS, YOUNG MEN, AND MEN.

    Entry into the autism spectrum is caused in utero, as a byproduct of excessive maleness – inhibiting or destroying certain brain development. This is the reason boys mature later than girls. We must overcome the brain damage, and specialize with what remains.

    Some of the drugs that assist with tolerance for autism spectrum disorders are neurogenic. they increase the rate of adaptation, although that may come at the expense of future dependency. (I don’t think we are sure.) The process is exacerbated in puberty in a second round of rapid growth and further inhibition.

    However, it does not matter what age you start to assist the development of the brain. And I suspect that if we can accelerate this process of ‘repair’ that will will see a corresponding (dramatic) increase in intelligence among males.

    Of course, experimentation of this kind is ethically problematic. But I expect that in the next century, this will be one of the most rapid avenues to human advancement.

    Interesting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-05-20 08:10:00 UTC