Curt Doolittle

Theme: Agency

  • Rage. Revel in it

    Rage. Revel in it.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-23 21:46:00 UTC

  • I mean, if you have to choose to imitate abraham, mohammed, jesus, buddha, lao t

    I mean, if you have to choose to imitate abraham, mohammed, jesus, buddha, lao tzu, confucius, aristotle, jefferson, or aurelius the question’s aren’t very difficult. It’s when you don’t make that choice that you’re a danger to the rest of us.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-22 13:58:05 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1109091882808811521

  • WOMEN ARE NOT COMPLICATED Women are not all that complicated. Just fully pay att

    WOMEN ARE NOT COMPLICATED

    Women are not all that complicated. Just fully pay attention, fully listen, show that you understand by paraphrasing. Don’t solve any problem that they don’t ask you to solve. And don’t WANT anything from them. Just engage in THEIR exchange of ‘connection’.

    Most female speech consists of seeking ‘settlement’ of possible ‘debts’ between females by external weight and measure. Once you understand this women are merely machines of debt settlement just as men are machines of productivity measurement.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-22 10:15:00 UTC

  • I mean, if you have to choose to imitate abraham, mohammed, jesus, buddha, lao t

    I mean, if you have to choose to imitate abraham, mohammed, jesus, buddha, lao tzu, confucius, aristotle, jefferson, or aurelius the question’s aren’t very difficult. It’s when you don’t make that choice that you’re a danger to the rest of us.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-22 09:57:00 UTC

  • RT @DegenRolf: Moral emotions constitute the most inflammable matter on social m

    RT @DegenRolf: Moral emotions constitute the most inflammable matter on social media, and they are largely expressed for reputation-buildin…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-21 00:57:37 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1108533083630903296

  • RT @DegenRolf: The widespread propensity among mammalian species to care for the

    RT @DegenRolf: The widespread propensity among mammalian species to care for the deceased is a spillover effect of the oxytocin-based nurtu…

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-21 00:53:02 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1108531929442332672

  • ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH LIFE AFTER PROPERTARIANISM. by Benjamin Wood I’ve experi

    ANOTHER EXPERIENCE WITH LIFE AFTER PROPERTARIANISM.

    by Benjamin Wood

    I’ve experienced greater awareness of people negotiating in bad faith, consciously or otherwise.

    One that immediately comes to mind is a person in my family who tends to frame their preferences in terms of universals: “Women don’t like it when you do X.” Or, “If you want people to put up with you, you can’t do Y.”

    I don’t think it’s deliberate so much as a subconscious rhetorical attempt to add more weight to their preferences or put a buffer between them and potential rejection…if I shut them down, it’s not me shutting *them* down, it’s me shutting *everyone* down. I actually think it flows from insecurity / lack of agency.

    I asked them to stop doing this and to put their preferences into more honest, testimonial language so that we could build a genuine relationship.

    Not only did they grasp the request, they appear to feel more confident as they take ownership of their desires in dialogue.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-20 13:29:00 UTC

  • THE PRACTICAL DAILY BENEFITS OF PROPERTARIANISM –“Can you explain the value of

    THE PRACTICAL DAILY BENEFITS OF PROPERTARIANISM

    –“Can you explain the value of P for others’ benefit?”–

    by Moritz Bierling

    Hehe, I’ve developed much more “oomph” in negotiations of all kind, be they romantic, professional, or otherwise

    With the aid of a comprehensive framework for assessing what people desire, protect, and defend (Property-in-Toto and Acquisitionism), I can easily understand where they overextend their hand (bluff) or fail to ask for everything they could get within the limits of reciprocity.

    I can point out benefits accruing to them from my part of the relationship they don’t account for.

    But perhaps most importantly of all, I can accurately assess what value my skills (and network, ideas, awarenesses) bring to the table, which translates into a confident and relaxed attitude––one that the other party can feel and readily submits to, because they instinctively sense that “I know my shit” and “they can’t fuck with me”.

    Oh, and another added benefit, perhaps even greater than the above, lies in me not deceiving myself and getting blindsided by an angle I didn’t consider.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-20 13:14:00 UTC

  • Can you imagine being in a meeting with pretty much anyone who DOESN”T know P, a

    Can you imagine being in a meeting with pretty much anyone who DOESN”T know P, and negotiating or debating with them?

    it’s almost not fair. ALmost. … 😉

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-20 12:31:00 UTC

  • THE SUPERPOWER If Philosophy helped you in life and business, The Natural Law wi

    THE SUPERPOWER

    If Philosophy helped you in life and business, The Natural Law will be a superpower by comparison.

    Yes, its work. But it’s not harder than learning geometry or basic programming as far as I can tell. And other than it’s falsificationary, equilibrating, and reciprocal, rather than ‘justifiationary’ it’s a bit more intuitive.

    But man. Learning how to convert from justification to falsification, equilibration, and reciprocity is … well, it’s gotta be turned into a habit. And a habit requires repetition.

    And that means ‘lots of case studies’.

    Ie: writing lots of law.

    Source date (UTC): 2019-03-20 12:31:00 UTC