Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER It’s a genetic

    TWO BOOKS CONTAINING DISCUSSIONS OF THE AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

    It’s a genetic benefit that’s gone too far. But I still cannot find similar work on it’s mirror effect: solipsism.

    “Autism is an interesting phenomenon. Two books that I recommend on this subject are Thomas Sowell’s Late-Talking Children and Tyler Cowen’s Create Your Own Economy. To grossly oversimplify, it appears that clinical autism results from the same gene complexes that, in their less extreme form, result in introversion, a fascination with structure, and spatial reasoning skills. A genetic propensity for autism, like sickle-cell anemia, confers benefits to mild cases despite being maladaptive in its extreme form. Schizophrenia and Manic-Depression have been similarly linked to superior cognitive abilities, and it stands to reason that genes for any mental illness with a genetic component must confer some benefit, whether we understand it or not.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-25 01:04:00 UTC

  • WAS MILLGRAM WRONG?

    http://www.psmag.com/health/electric-schlock-65377/BUT WAS MILLGRAM WRONG?

    http://psmag.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a3f99f9e81d48228ea39f9a4&id=356e2d99e0&e=1d54207add

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-17 05:27:00 UTC

  • LIKE IVE BEEN SAYING Solipsism on one end, and autism on the other. ON INTROVERT

    LIKE IVE BEEN SAYING

    Solipsism on one end, and autism on the other.

    ON INTROVERTS

    “the behaviors of introverts and extroverts are due to differences in cortical arousal (the speed and amount of the brain’s activity). Compared with extroverts, introverts have naturally high cortical arousal, and may process more information per second.

    This means, essentially, that if you put introverts into an environment with a lot of stimulation, such as a loud restaurant, they will quickly become overwhelmed or overloaded, causing them to sort of shut down to stop the influx of information. Because of this fact, introverts tend to avoid such active environments. Extroverts, on the other hand, are only minimally aroused, so they seek out highly stimulating environments to augment their arousal levels.”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-16 10:03:00 UTC

  • DISTILLED (Read it) Most simple and straightforward description of the personali

    http://quarry.stanford.edu/xapm1111126lse/docs/02_LSE_Cognitive.pdfEXCELLENCE DISTILLED

    (Read it)

    Most simple and straightforward description of the personality of innovators.

    “Boy before the mirror…”

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 18:37:00 UTC

  • DEATH AND FEAR You know, once you’ve thought you were going to die a few times,

    DEATH AND FEAR

    You know, once you’ve thought you were going to die a few times, it’s pretty liberating. Life is something to enjoy. To experience. To consume. Death is something you recognize, and try to avoid, but once you’ve made peace with it, it’s something that you no longer fear.

    Now, it takes a long time to get over every episode for some reason. I don’t know how the men on patrol do it. But it takes a year or more for me every time. My friends overseas are tougher than I’ll ever be.

    But it does give you a very different perspective on threats. Because when you aren’t afraid of dying, risk is just another experience to enjoy.

    At least from my perspective, it feels like, if fear is a weapon, then:

    “I’m not locked in here with you; You’re locked in here with me!”

    🙂

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-10 13:56:00 UTC

  • At the age of I think seven or eight I got a piece of horoscope paper that said

    At the age of I think seven or eight I got a piece of horoscope paper that said “You are capable of amassing a fortune.” You wouldn’t believe that an impact that suggestion had on me.

    Well, having made a couple of fortunes now. I gotta say, that I’m glad I did it. That I’ve proven I can do it. When my book is done I’ll have accomplished everything I had desired in life. (Assuming I finish it before I get run over by a bus, or struck by lightening.)

    But the idea of just enjoying life like most people do seems really awesome.

    So. Here is a toast to living life for the purpose of enjoying it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-08 12:49:00 UTC

  • PSYCHOLOGICAL PRICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP “No one said building a company was easy

    http://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.htmlTHE PSYCHOLOGICAL PRICE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

    “No one said building a company was easy. But it’s time to be honest about how brutal it really is–and the price so many founders secretly pay”

    Secretly hell.

    I tell everyone, pretty openly, that the difference between entrepreneurs and everyone else is little more than work capacity and pain tolerance – and not much else.

    The average person cannot imagine how hard it is on your mind and body. Because they literally cannot imaging working that hard, bearing that must risk and surviving that much stress.

    And then the government wants to tax you MORE and the american people want to call you EVIL and SELFISH, when, and if, as is rare, you capitalize on years of work, sacrifice and suffering.

    You wonder why the republicans own small and medium business?

    ‘Cause they know, appreciate, and respect it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 14:07:00 UTC

  • ASPIES AND EQUALITY Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to b

    ASPIES AND EQUALITY

    Does any one know the working theory on why Aspies tend to be so positive toward others, but moral specialists? Hmmm……

    Caplan has me thinking about this quite a bit. The idea that Libertarians are moral specialists. Why we have so many aspies in the libertarian community. And why aspies appear to prefer to treat others in equal relations. Even why Meyers Briggs INTP’s prefer to work as equals.

    There is something very interesting in this mess if I can untangle it.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-05 04:55:00 UTC

  • “NIETZSCHE ENVY” Nietzsche and the joy of wandering. When I came to the Ukraine,

    “NIETZSCHE ENVY”

    Nietzsche and the joy of wandering.

    When I came to the Ukraine, my idea, was that I would either start the business, or I would buy a toyota truck and drive from london to mongolia by the most dangerous and uncivilized route possible before there were no such routes left to travel. The sort of minimalist adventure travel that I would use to cleanse my soul (and body) of the 2000’s.

    For most of my childhood I had mini-bikes and small motorcycles, and my sense of freedom was sated by exploring on them, or on bicycles. Today, I realize the range I covered was less than ten miles in all directions. But that was what freedom meant to me: exploration.

    But you know, I know Nietzsche had health problems, and I have had plenty of them too. And he spent a lot of time ‘wandering around’. And you know, it turns out that if all you want to do is think, then wandering around is a pretty good way of doing it.

    And then, you sort of remember how awesome life is on a motorcycle, and you’re actually connected with the world rather than insulated from it. And you read a few articles by people who have spent a year traveling. And, then, you think, that even if your soul is already cleansed, maybe there is room now to fill it with joy.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-04 08:44:00 UTC

  • INSIGHT Why do autists swing libertarian and solipsists progressive? Thats the a

    INSIGHT

    Why do autists swing libertarian and solipsists progressive?

    Thats the answer you know.

    Its that simple.

    Source date (UTC): 2013-09-03 08:51:00 UTC