Curt Doolittle

Theme: Institution

  • AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.” Demography –

    AND FWIW, “IN THE LONG RUN THE ECONOMY IS THE DEMOGRAPHY, STUPID.”

    Demography – > Institutions -> Economy -> “Will”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-16 04:16:00 UTC

  • PROPHETS WORDS ARE WIELDED ONLY BY THOSE WHO CAN. Western man, like eastern man,

    PROPHETS WORDS ARE WIELDED ONLY BY THOSE WHO CAN.

    Western man, like eastern man, is poly-philosophical.

    UPPER – TRUTH – RULE – FORCE

    1) Aristotle’s Law of truth, The Common Law, and The Martial Law of those who rule: aristocracy.

    MIDDLE – UTILITY – COOPERATION – TRADE

    2) The Host of Middle Class Philosophers myths of aspiration for cooperation,

    3) Aesop and the Nordic, Celtic, and Germanic Myths of household wisdom,

    LOWER – NECESSITY – INSURANCE – GOSSIP

    4) Aquinas and the Nazarene’s philosophy of poverty, suffering, and hope.

    It is not a mystery that these philosophies roughly correspond to the IQ distribution. Both out of ability and out of utility.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 06:19:00 UTC

  • QUARTER, GHETTO, AND NOW CITY? We had ‘Ghettos’ and ‘Quarters’ under the Great C

    QUARTER, GHETTO, AND NOW CITY?

    We had ‘Ghettos’ and ‘Quarters’ under the Great Christian Monarchies.

    There is no reason we cannot have ghettos and quarters as we did under smaller scale states, and no reason we cannot have whole cities under today’s governments of greater scale.

    Rule, governance, commerce, and existence are very different things.

    (I have seen escape from ny btw. lol)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 04:09:00 UTC

  • 1) WHAT I LIKED ABOUT BUILDING CONSULTING COMPANIES (reposted by request) (origi

    1) WHAT I LIKED ABOUT BUILDING CONSULTING COMPANIES

    (reposted by request) (original october 5)

    A consulting company is little more than an intelligence organization that collects information from various organizations and uses it to sell solutions to different organizations where they gain new information and repeat the process. I love it because I learned so much every day. You get paid to do basic research on the operations of various companies. You are paid to collect information that most companies work to hide from the outside world. The price is volatility. You have to be able to tolerate that volitility. Consulting companies react early to economic fluctuations expanding quickly in booms and contracting quickly in recessions.

    2) LET ME HELP YOU: A CONSULTING FIRM IS AN INTELLIGENCE ORGANIZATION: A PROFESSION OF BENEVOLENT SPYING.

    (reposted by request) (original on November 22nd)

    Why do you think I built so many consulting firms? And I was very good at it by the way – thanks. Because I am honest with myself about that business.

    In the most part, as an intelligence specialist, you gather information from one group inside the organization and transfer it to another group who is dis-incentivized for various compensation and status reasons to cooperate with, defer to, or obey the directions of the other group.

    In most large organizations the answer to every current problem is hosted in someone’s brain somewhere in the organization (often in the marketing department’s middle management, or in the bowels of accounting where some uncomfortable truth is protected from release).

    But the incentives to act on that knowledge – often precisely because of the individuals who host it – cannot or will not be acted upon. Otherwise, people will not act on the solution to a problem because the incentives of the organization are perverse (counter productive). Or because the individuals currently in positions of decision making would be subject to negative effects (usually middle and upper management other than the c-suite).

    So the job of a consultant is to simply get people to talk to you on one hand, and to produce a deliverable that provides a means by which the knowledge that exists in the company can be brought to fruition by some sort of reorganization of goals, processes, responsibilities, incentives and compensations.

    But mostly – at least a the level I tend to work – by giving people in the organization PERMISSION to change alliances and loyalty relations without breaking an alliance or loyalty.

    The mistake of most neophytes is to assume people are ignorant, stupid or stubborn, when in fact humans pretty much demonstrate rational action.

    Despite their policies against it I have, (and many agency networks have) had parallel projects in multiple cell phone providers. Each desperate to protect some strategy that is well understood by the competition – so much so that the internal ability to execute has been inhibited by this defensiveness: which I usually view as an excuse to not get work done more than defensiveness.

    At every level of the organization there is information that is either true and actionable, false and actionable, inactionable, or irrelevant. The trick is to find it.

    Why? Because a company and processes aren’t special or unique or interesting, or special or a competitive advantage any more than whether a culture practices tea ceremonies or dances ’round the may pole.

    What separates a good company from a bad is the quality of people, their ability to reorganize in response to market changes, and the quality of information they make use of, and the technological means by which they warranty that they are not privatizing the shareholder commons either by action or inaction, statement or silence, constructive suggestion or destructive rumor and gossip.

    They are probably obvious and the central problem of organizing production under voluntary employment, is in preserving the will of those with knowledge to make use of it.

    Basically, truth wins. Discover the truth. Provide a plan. And in that plan, find a way to preserve signals for everyone. Pay people if you must to take a hit. Don’t expect them just to take a hit for you. If you try to do things without compensating people then you’re not engaging in exchange.

    3) THE “BIG FIVE” WORKPLACE TRAITS IN CONSULTING

    (original 2013)

    People are not a commoditized “meat” that is reducible to P&L Numbers. It takes a variety of skills to produce excellent service work. And Oversing measures (at least) those five different properties:

    —TRAIT————————-Measurement———–

    1) “Like-ability” (Peer 360 system

    2) “Soft Skills – Trustworthiness” (Skill System by Peers)

    3) “Revenue value of hard skills” (Skill System / Peer Skill Ratings)

    4) “Customer Trust and Retention” (Net Promoter Score)

    5) “Profitability” measured as:

    a) Utilization and

    b) Chargeability (Standard financial metrics)

    So, any individual is always represented by oversing using all these ‘metrics’. Their “Personality Profile” so to speak.

    THE WORKPLACE AS EXTENDED FAMILY RATHER THAN LABOR POOL. We found that feedback from PEERS was MORE ACCURATE and MORE RESPECTED and produced GREATER BEHAVIORAL CHANGE than all feedback from management combined. In fact, management opinion of any staff member was usually a CONTRARY INDICATOR of the individual’s value to the business.

    So, our use of these measures helped us create a culture of a ‘family’ by giving honest feedback, the purpose of which was to ‘advance the individual and the family’ as a whole. Not through threats, not through incentives, not through pressure, but through advice and counsel. Humans want to do the right thing to fit into groups.

    And you just have to give them to tools to do so. Reliable information is the best tool. Like the original meaning of ‘confession’, almost all feedback is publicly visible. Your sins are public, as is your heroism.

    ONE OF THE SECRETS OF ANY BUSINESS IS NEED FOR EACH OTHER. One of the secrets is “IDLE HANDS MAKE ILL WILL”. And people will naturally free-ride and rent-seek, which creates animosity in the ‘tribe’. The best way to prevent bad behavior is by minimizing the potential of it. The best way to minimize potential, is to always be marginally short of staff, so that everyone has to chip in to keep everyone else successful and happy. Furthermore, the incentive to overstaff is usually crated by the most populous RENT SEEKERS in any business : middle management.

    Oversing reduces the ability of middle management to rent seek, hide information for the purpose of obtaining political power. Our experience was that we needed only talent leadership, not ‘management’ per se. Because the feedback and ‘management’ of individual behavior was democratized into a marketplace of voluntary exchanges of assistance, appreciation and complaint.

    Oversing is revolutionary if you use it as we intend that you do. It will transform not only your ability to manage your business by looking forward, and by increasing utilization but it will transform you business by making the ‘family’ manage the business, and thereby feeling PART OF IT, and able to INFLUENCE IT.

    Management hierarchy is, just like government, little more than rent seeking and obfuscation of facts. And just like government, management hierarchy is the primary reason why individuals feel resentment toward the business. Make them LOVE IT INSTEAD. IF TALENT IS YOUR BUSINESS, THEN USE IT, AND TAKE CARE OF IT.

    4) THE SOCIAL CLASSES OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT COMPANIES

    Scientific Software design and development – Operating Systems Design and Development – Enterprise Software Product companies – Consumer Software Product companies – Business Software companies – Small Independent software companies – Internal Operational software – Consulting business operational software. – Internal IT staff. – Temporary (or long term) staffing. – Short term staffing. – Independent software consultants. – IT independent consultants. Varies a bit by company. But basically it’s driven by scarcity. (I need to write this list for economists, because it’s pretty funny.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-15 04:04:00 UTC

  • Reducing Our Biological Differences To Rule Of Law

    [I] think the tide has changed and that science of HBD has won out over “The Great Boazian Lie”. POSITION Most variation in human behavior is hormonal, normative, and institutional. With the most influential difference in behavior (if not appearance) caused by norms and institutions. In other words, we ‘grow’ differently despite very similar genetic composition. 1) the majority of differences between the great tribes (races) is in the rates of reproduction of the lower classes. Or conversely, the rates of suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses and the concentration of reproduction in the middle and upper classes. 2) that sexual maturity regulates aggression and impulse and time preference.(humans are no different from foxes or any other creature). Hence the increasing aggression (and penis size) from east asian, northern whites(Ukrainian), southern(Iranian) whites, arabs, and africans. 3) cranial size effects intelligence disproportionately since intelligence is largely a function of memory. 4) there appears to be a difference in the evolution of different brain agents (language in particular) and in cooperation (frontal lobe) that is expressed in the races, and verbal self expression both limits frustration and increases cooperation. 5) raw athletic ability decreases with decreases in sexual maturity. In other words, this hormonal theory of sexual maturity is a sufficient explanation for the variation in COMPETITIVENESS our gene pools, and the strategies that we adopt as norms and traditions given our competitiveness (or lack of it). And furthermore, any other theory would need be more parsimonious. And my position at present is that further improvement in our genetic understanding of man’s differences will augment rather than contradict or falsify this theory. Or put another way, the end of evolution is that we reach minimum sexual maturity for reproduction but never switch off the youth and on the maturity signals. Why am I only concerned about this level of precision rather than enumerating what appear to be significant differences between races (including the Ukrainian white and Indo-Iranian White)? Because I don’t need to suggest universalism under paternal aristocracy. Meaning I’m not advocating universalism. I’m not advocating diversity or equality. I’m merely pointing out that each tribe and sub-tribe will evolve into a high trust society that is not a threat to its neighbors if it practices eugenic reproduction and rule of law. Not an aristocracy of everyone, but everyone living in aristocracies. THEREFORE The problem for any society to solve is largely one of reducing the relative size of the individuals below what we consider 106IQ today, and a target for any polity should be a distribution no less that 115, and preferably 125 if we wish to see ‘Star Trek’ – whereas the current downward trend is producing a devolution to a future of ‘Favelas’. WORSE It is possible that we have passed peak human, since it is very difficult to cleans defective genes from a polity, and intelligence is comprised of a complex set of genetic biases. EXAMPLES China surpasses india both because of superior suppression of the underclasses, and superior ability of the red army to force literacy. THE WEST The west succeeded because of (a) Aristocratic egalitarianism (b) martial truth (d) dramatic culling of the lower classes both by starvation, access to land, and aggressive hanging. You do not so much improve your population as limit the harm done to it by the lower classes. This is a consistent theme that I’ve discovered in most of my work: we do not know the truth but we know falsehood. WE do not know goods but we know bads. We cannot breed better men, we can only stop bad men from breeding more. The EUGENICS program was perhaps the most important objective of western man, and the failure of it due to women and pseudosciences was the second catastrophe. 1) The Enlightenment fallacy of oppressed man vs eugenic civilization. 2) The Enlightenment undermining of monarchy, aristocracy, instead of addition of new houses for newly participatory classes. 3) The enfranchisement of women and women’s advocacy of enfranchising slaves as a means of gaining their own enfranchisement. 4) The Jewish Cosmopolitan Pseudoscientific movement as an attempt to create a second Religion for women and slaves (underclasses): Boaz(sociology), Marx(economics), Freud (psychology), Frankfurt School (politics). 5) The Anglo attack on german civilization in the first war. The anglo attack on german civilization in the second war, and failure of Germany to restore european civilization to aristocratic, aesthetic, and egalitarian origins. 6) The adoption of the Pseudoscientific Religion by the Academy, State, Media complex and its appeal to women in academy: as revenue, state voting as power, and consumer consumption of goods as revenue. (a degree in other than STEM fields appears to be nothing more than a modern sale of Indulgences to build universities instead of churches.) 7) The 1965/66 Immigration law by which the Women, Blacks, Jews, the Pseudoscientific Religion of the Academy, State, Media complex sought to achieve through depopulation (destruction of the family) and immigration (invasion) what they could not achieve by propaganda. 8) The failure of the masculine, familial, conservative, libertarian, and scientific thought leadership to produce a body of thought to counter the second use of women as a means of distributing the Pseudoscientific Revolution’s attempt at the Second Great Lie (pseudoscience) second only to the First Great Lie (monotheism). (Which Propertarianism and Testimonialism, Genetic and Cognitive science, plus a century of recorded damage to civilization help to overturn.) 9) the great wealth to be made from the conquest and sale of the North American (US/Canadian), and Australian continents, has been interpreted as a property of American Democracy rather than american democracy is a temporary luxury made possible by the rather ridiculous wealth from the 300 year long sale of the Continent to immigrants. And while we were limited to immigration of middle class gene pools without access to land from above the Hanjal line, we now are engaged in a pollution of all forms of capital. (the same applies to Russia by the way.) Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • Reducing Our Biological Differences To Rule Of Law

    [I] think the tide has changed and that science of HBD has won out over “The Great Boazian Lie”. POSITION Most variation in human behavior is hormonal, normative, and institutional. With the most influential difference in behavior (if not appearance) caused by norms and institutions. In other words, we ‘grow’ differently despite very similar genetic composition. 1) the majority of differences between the great tribes (races) is in the rates of reproduction of the lower classes. Or conversely, the rates of suppression of the reproduction of the underclasses and the concentration of reproduction in the middle and upper classes. 2) that sexual maturity regulates aggression and impulse and time preference.(humans are no different from foxes or any other creature). Hence the increasing aggression (and penis size) from east asian, northern whites(Ukrainian), southern(Iranian) whites, arabs, and africans. 3) cranial size effects intelligence disproportionately since intelligence is largely a function of memory. 4) there appears to be a difference in the evolution of different brain agents (language in particular) and in cooperation (frontal lobe) that is expressed in the races, and verbal self expression both limits frustration and increases cooperation. 5) raw athletic ability decreases with decreases in sexual maturity. In other words, this hormonal theory of sexual maturity is a sufficient explanation for the variation in COMPETITIVENESS our gene pools, and the strategies that we adopt as norms and traditions given our competitiveness (or lack of it). And furthermore, any other theory would need be more parsimonious. And my position at present is that further improvement in our genetic understanding of man’s differences will augment rather than contradict or falsify this theory. Or put another way, the end of evolution is that we reach minimum sexual maturity for reproduction but never switch off the youth and on the maturity signals. Why am I only concerned about this level of precision rather than enumerating what appear to be significant differences between races (including the Ukrainian white and Indo-Iranian White)? Because I don’t need to suggest universalism under paternal aristocracy. Meaning I’m not advocating universalism. I’m not advocating diversity or equality. I’m merely pointing out that each tribe and sub-tribe will evolve into a high trust society that is not a threat to its neighbors if it practices eugenic reproduction and rule of law. Not an aristocracy of everyone, but everyone living in aristocracies. THEREFORE The problem for any society to solve is largely one of reducing the relative size of the individuals below what we consider 106IQ today, and a target for any polity should be a distribution no less that 115, and preferably 125 if we wish to see ‘Star Trek’ – whereas the current downward trend is producing a devolution to a future of ‘Favelas’. WORSE It is possible that we have passed peak human, since it is very difficult to cleans defective genes from a polity, and intelligence is comprised of a complex set of genetic biases. EXAMPLES China surpasses india both because of superior suppression of the underclasses, and superior ability of the red army to force literacy. THE WEST The west succeeded because of (a) Aristocratic egalitarianism (b) martial truth (d) dramatic culling of the lower classes both by starvation, access to land, and aggressive hanging. You do not so much improve your population as limit the harm done to it by the lower classes. This is a consistent theme that I’ve discovered in most of my work: we do not know the truth but we know falsehood. WE do not know goods but we know bads. We cannot breed better men, we can only stop bad men from breeding more. The EUGENICS program was perhaps the most important objective of western man, and the failure of it due to women and pseudosciences was the second catastrophe. 1) The Enlightenment fallacy of oppressed man vs eugenic civilization. 2) The Enlightenment undermining of monarchy, aristocracy, instead of addition of new houses for newly participatory classes. 3) The enfranchisement of women and women’s advocacy of enfranchising slaves as a means of gaining their own enfranchisement. 4) The Jewish Cosmopolitan Pseudoscientific movement as an attempt to create a second Religion for women and slaves (underclasses): Boaz(sociology), Marx(economics), Freud (psychology), Frankfurt School (politics). 5) The Anglo attack on german civilization in the first war. The anglo attack on german civilization in the second war, and failure of Germany to restore european civilization to aristocratic, aesthetic, and egalitarian origins. 6) The adoption of the Pseudoscientific Religion by the Academy, State, Media complex and its appeal to women in academy: as revenue, state voting as power, and consumer consumption of goods as revenue. (a degree in other than STEM fields appears to be nothing more than a modern sale of Indulgences to build universities instead of churches.) 7) The 1965/66 Immigration law by which the Women, Blacks, Jews, the Pseudoscientific Religion of the Academy, State, Media complex sought to achieve through depopulation (destruction of the family) and immigration (invasion) what they could not achieve by propaganda. 8) The failure of the masculine, familial, conservative, libertarian, and scientific thought leadership to produce a body of thought to counter the second use of women as a means of distributing the Pseudoscientific Revolution’s attempt at the Second Great Lie (pseudoscience) second only to the First Great Lie (monotheism). (Which Propertarianism and Testimonialism, Genetic and Cognitive science, plus a century of recorded damage to civilization help to overturn.) 9) the great wealth to be made from the conquest and sale of the North American (US/Canadian), and Australian continents, has been interpreted as a property of American Democracy rather than american democracy is a temporary luxury made possible by the rather ridiculous wealth from the 300 year long sale of the Continent to immigrants. And while we were limited to immigration of middle class gene pools without access to land from above the Hanjal line, we now are engaged in a pollution of all forms of capital. (the same applies to Russia by the way.) Curt Doolittle The Philosophy of Aristocracy The Propertarian Institute Kiev, Ukraine

  • FINANCIAL PREDATION (still working on this but it’s getting there) We can stop i

    FINANCIAL PREDATION

    (still working on this but it’s getting there)

    We can stop it. The problem is, that the way we stop it is non-trivial:

    (a) require all issues released at market price with no favoritism (equal starting gate provision).

    (b) prevent insurance (hedges), require proportional holding of debt, force proportional losses (‘skin in the game’)

    (c) eliminate protection from liability for all individuals involved in any transaction, and reward (commission) for reporting offenders – (make it profitable to report your boss or peers.)

    (d) professionalize banking just like law and certified public accounting increasing the quality of people in the industry.

    (e) require total transparency of all OPM investor transactions. (what I recommend).

    (f) move all companies to block chain ledgers.

    (g) tax arbitrage and volatility entirely, while eliminating taxation on dividends, and appreciation. (eliminate trading and force investing)

    (h) Buy (federally) ‘bottom-feeder’ Mastercard, and redistribute liquidity directly to citizens rather than through the financial sector and interest rates – in exchange for elimination of sales tax and minimum wage. (what I recommend). These cards cannot be attached or indebted for any purpose whatsoever, private or public. The money is split between disposable and retirement security. The retirement funds are investable.

    (i) Stocks provide no voting or ownership provisions (positive), only legal defense(negative). One may contract for ownership provisions as condition of investment, but one cannot simply buy up control of companies without consent.

    (j) Eliminate boards of directors – I have not seen any empirical evidence that a board has any value whatsoever that could not be provided by an advisory board that assists in the development of relationships and expertise. But boards appear to have a negative influence on business. Transparency and rule of law are the only material defense. We no longer need political representatives in this age, and we no longer need the private sector equivalent. My experience is that boards that do not consist of material owners are universally damaging to a business. (The Buffett Principle: substantive owners with deep knowledge of the business, only). Both boards of directors and stock voting are hangovers from the paper and pencil era.

    (k) Elimination of all non-safety employment regulation – voluntary association, merit based. This social engineering is harmful to social cooperation, and a constant source of cost and conflict that encourages the internal equivalent of a black market in information.

    (l) Eliminate taxation on unrealized profits (this nonsense we go through for options for employees). We go through tons of falsehoods to circumvent the fact that while large transfers may occur almost no profits do. So eliminate the burden of preventing false taxation by simply requiring tax only on realized profits.

    (j) Move all accounting, banking, and credit, nationally if not world-wide to thirteen four week periods, and off the lunar cycle invented in the age of sail.

    STRENGTHEN

    1) rule of law, individual accountability, civic morality, truth content,

    2) encourage more Andresson Horowitz investment organization (innovation producing risk taking) and less Goldman Sachs (systemic parasitism).

    PRESERVE

    1) I want to preserve the lottery effect that the stock market provides to entrepreneur, business, and industry, but to limit the finance sector’s ability to disproportionately privatize issues – which is how it’s done today. With little or no value to the economy, business, and citizenry.

    ELIMINATE

    1) Eliminates the ability of the financial sector to direct the economy, only profit from funding the fulfillment consumer demand, thereby forcing the consumer and the investor to have the same interests.

    2) Eliminates financial predation on business and industry. (which if you have been involved in it – and I have – is unimaginable )

    3) Eliminates costly burdens on organizations that must preserve multiple fallacies:

    a) that tax, credit, and operational accounting differ because credit cycles demand stability that does not exist, taxes demand returns that do not exist.

    b) social engineering compliance is costly and we merely work hard to circumvent it.

    c) fallacy that the financial sector works in our interest.

    d) if we distribute liquidity directly outside of the financial system then minimum wage is unnecessary, and the incentive to limit immigration will exist.

    ( more… but I’m out of time for this today. )

    Curt Doolittle

    The Propertarian Institute

    Kiev, Ukraine

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 03:43:00 UTC

  • (I see what the germans do now. they create stoicism through duty and craftsmans

    (I see what the germans do now. they create stoicism through duty and craftsmanship. fuk. it’s that simple.)

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-14 02:31:00 UTC

  • I’ve looked at dozens of companies in France and Sarkozy’s gov’t approaches regu

    I’ve looked at dozens of companies in France and Sarkozy’s gov’t approaches regularly. Employment law alone makes it impossible.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-12 10:36:44 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675625324743368704

    Reply addressees: @wef

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

    IN REPLY TO:

    @wef

    Can #Europe ever build its own Silicon Valley? https://t.co/Yg2c68VzkH #tech https://t.co/n5pwtNqPhd

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

  • To start a business in the USA, get a ID and file with the state. Takes 15 minut

    To start a business in the USA, get a ID and file with the state. Takes 15 minutes. “Failure is ok. You only owe tax if you profit.”

    Source date (UTC): 2015-12-12 10:35:47 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675625086678908928

    Reply addressees: @wef

    Replying to: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760

    IN REPLY TO:

    @wef

    Can #Europe ever build its own Silicon Valley? https://t.co/Yg2c68VzkH #tech https://t.co/n5pwtNqPhd

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/675616196671221760