Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • cities burned, works destroyed, people dead, money earned

    cities burned,

    works destroyed,

    people dead,

    money earned

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-31 16:12:00 UTC

  • the problem is all it does is sort out people who cant perform independent cleri

    the problem is all it does is sort out people who cant perform independent clerical work. What if you actually learned someting ( as in the German Model)

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-29 18:43:07 UTC

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  • What Kind Of Advice Would You Give To A 24 Year-old Male?

    1) When you are young you can do something that people who are older cant: work incessantly on very little income. The truth is though, that older startup guys do better at it. We just are more interested in young guys. but they have to give away a lot of the company because they can’t work like you can. So use it.

    2) Ideas are not scarce. Customers are scarce. whenever I start a business I know who I will sell the product or service to, and who I will sell the company to. I am usually wrong about the specifics but the general idea works out.

    3) Create something that a bigger company wants to buy from you, by collecting customers that they cant reach.

    4) Get into a house with other guys who do the same work, and save some money.

    5) Work at a larger company for one year so you understand the value of process. Then move to a startup so that you understand how to actually get something done – most people in large companies don’t actually do anything of much value. Everyone in a small company does.

    6) Never expand early. It is an excuse to focus on internal organizational development rather than customers, service and product. Humans possess this cognitive bias. And it is a startup killer.

    7) There isn’t anyone enough smarter than you to create a marginal difference. Don’t expect there to be. And they won’t come work for you anyway. That means you have to solve a lot of problems on your own. That desperate need to understand is what makes one an entrepreneur.

    8) take the first two basic accounting classes if you haven’t. That’s all you’ll ever need to know. but you need to know it.

    9) Your job is to sell. Sell ideas. Sell products. Sell Services. If you are doing something someone else can because it gives you a sense of accomplishment then you’re wasting your time. Nothing that produces significant returns has a short production cycle, and sales are frustrating. So spend your time on the long term, hard stuff, and get the admin folks to do the rituals.

    10) Good salespeople won’t work for you. But you can buy good marketing. The number of companies that think 300K of ad budget is out of the question yet blow twice that on non-performing people never ceases to amaze me.

    I tried for 10. Hopefully there is a gem in there somewhere.

    https://www.quora.com/What-kind-of-advice-would-you-give-to-a-24-year-old-male

  • Suppose I Am The Prime Minister Of A Low Income Insular Island Country Of About 2 Million People. What Are Policies Needed To Achieve The Same Economic Success Of South Korea Rapidly?

    1. Learn from “Duarte, Putin, Mao” and hang the criminals and drug users.
    2. “Eliminate” everyone with an IQ under 95 – quickly, or at least sterilize them.
    3. Limit reproduction to married couples who own property, or face prison and fines in the chinese model.
    4. Replace your entire judiciary with American Lawyers. They are cheap and americans are almost impossible to bribe – the law is our ‘religion’ so to speak.
    5. Have those lawyers draft an uninterpretable (strictly constructed) constitution by which to adjudicate laws.
    6. Do not under any circumstances produce anything like a democracy.
    7. Instead, give universal standing to the citizenry to file civil suits against any member of the government or the bureaucracy.
    8. Declare yourself and your family a constitutional monarchy bound by that constituion so that no one can use politics to obtain status, only economic service of others.
    9. Give yourself 10% of GDP to spend on the commons (the territory) at your own discretion.
    10. Give the people 10% of GDP as redistribution (‘dividends’).
    11. Perform a Domesday Inventory, and produce a single universal title registry and implement it using blockchain technology.
    12. Use the treasury to bypass the financial sector and issue debit cards to adult citizens, so that they can spend their ‘dividends’ directly as income.
    13. Use the treasury to bypass the consumer credit system, and issue loans for fixed capital goods (houses, etc) at the rate of inflation for one half of whatever american loan durations are. For capital goods, (cars, appliances) at one percent. Do not issue credit for consumption purposes.
    14. Use the 13 week month in your accounting, the overhead cost of the 12 month year is absurd.
    15. Take a small percentage of all sales transactions, and financial transactions.
    16. Take income and property taxes that are the lowest that you can survive on.
    17. Create a tax haven, and a central bank, and a fiat currency.
    18. Keep banks open seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
    19. Teach everyone english with native british speakers, with extra emphasis on diction. Do the same with Emily Post’s Etiquette. It isn’t obvious to … ahem… the ‘common folk’ that etiquette is a test of your ability to respect other people’s property in all its forms.
    20. You will compete with Monaco in less than five years. (Really)
    21. Move to tourism to encourage large scale investment. You won’t have to. You will be buried in money.

    Remember that every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the people at the top. In america, already, ‘whites, jews and asians’ are a for-profit polity, and america would have no debt if limited to them. Single motherhood, and broken families, criminals, and drug users will destroy your economy, and the lives of your ‘good people’.

    https://www.quora.com/Suppose-I-am-the-Prime-Minister-of-a-low-income-insular-island-country-of-about-2-million-people-What-are-policies-needed-to-achieve-the-same-economic-success-of-South-Korea-rapidly

  • Suppose I Am The Prime Minister Of A Low Income Insular Island Country Of About 2 Million People. What Are Policies Needed To Achieve The Same Economic Success Of South Korea Rapidly?

    1. Learn from “Duarte, Putin, Mao” and hang the criminals and drug users.
    2. “Eliminate” everyone with an IQ under 95 – quickly, or at least sterilize them.
    3. Limit reproduction to married couples who own property, or face prison and fines in the chinese model.
    4. Replace your entire judiciary with American Lawyers. They are cheap and americans are almost impossible to bribe – the law is our ‘religion’ so to speak.
    5. Have those lawyers draft an uninterpretable (strictly constructed) constitution by which to adjudicate laws.
    6. Do not under any circumstances produce anything like a democracy.
    7. Instead, give universal standing to the citizenry to file civil suits against any member of the government or the bureaucracy.
    8. Declare yourself and your family a constitutional monarchy bound by that constituion so that no one can use politics to obtain status, only economic service of others.
    9. Give yourself 10% of GDP to spend on the commons (the territory) at your own discretion.
    10. Give the people 10% of GDP as redistribution (‘dividends’).
    11. Perform a Domesday Inventory, and produce a single universal title registry and implement it using blockchain technology.
    12. Use the treasury to bypass the financial sector and issue debit cards to adult citizens, so that they can spend their ‘dividends’ directly as income.
    13. Use the treasury to bypass the consumer credit system, and issue loans for fixed capital goods (houses, etc) at the rate of inflation for one half of whatever american loan durations are. For capital goods, (cars, appliances) at one percent. Do not issue credit for consumption purposes.
    14. Use the 13 week month in your accounting, the overhead cost of the 12 month year is absurd.
    15. Take a small percentage of all sales transactions, and financial transactions.
    16. Take income and property taxes that are the lowest that you can survive on.
    17. Create a tax haven, and a central bank, and a fiat currency.
    18. Keep banks open seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
    19. Teach everyone english with native british speakers, with extra emphasis on diction. Do the same with Emily Post’s Etiquette. It isn’t obvious to … ahem… the ‘common folk’ that etiquette is a test of your ability to respect other people’s property in all its forms.
    20. You will compete with Monaco in less than five years. (Really)
    21. Move to tourism to encourage large scale investment. You won’t have to. You will be buried in money.

    Remember that every person at the bottom is six times as costly as the people at the top. In america, already, ‘whites, jews and asians’ are a for-profit polity, and america would have no debt if limited to them. Single motherhood, and broken families, criminals, and drug users will destroy your economy, and the lives of your ‘good people’.

    https://www.quora.com/Suppose-I-am-the-Prime-Minister-of-a-low-income-insular-island-country-of-about-2-million-people-What-are-policies-needed-to-achieve-the-same-economic-success-of-South-Korea-rapidly

  • Why Do Some Americans Call Europeans “communist”?

    A lot of answers, but americans actually don’t know why everything european sounds ‘communist’.

    1. europeans trade opportunity for certainty. Americans and people who come to America trade certainty for opportunity.
    2. America was invented in modern language as a ‘third way’, between the aristocracy(authority) and the church(communism), by creating a middle class (entrepreneurial) order consisting of nothing but markets.
    3. American law, and our culture, and much of how americans think ‘differently’ is because we view exchanging certainty for opportunity as ‘limiting our freedoms’. All our wealth goes to people who are entrepreneurs (look it up, its the highest paying occupation). Anyone can become an entrepreneur here and everything is set up to assist you.
    4. In particular, our law is back-loaded. Meaning that there is nothing to constrain you up front, and we handle exceptions (failures) through litigation (expensively). This is one of the primary reasons for rates of american innovation. (It is nearly impossible to do business in europe compared to america. I still have a UK company and it’s one hundred times more expensive and difficult for absolutely no reason.) Continental law is front loaded in the old (French) tradition, and this, and the heavy taxation serve as a barrier to innovation – especially technical innovation. In this sense, European law evolved out of bureaucracy and into high capital which is possible to organize in the Germanic countries.
    5. Everyone talks about medical care and this is chimera. The problem is that we haven’t modernized our laws to prevent medical bankruptcy, and provided catastrophic care. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET IT HERE FAST instead of waiting, and we don’t want to lose that. We have medicaid and medicare and EVERYONE can get health care. Our medicine is more expensive because there is more of it, it is faster, it is better. We don’t want to lose that. (Spoken as someone who has endured the arcane british system). So we need to revise our laws, and increase catastrophic care. But supplying more of an expensive good leads to its abuse and overconsumption.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Americans-call-Europeans-Communist

  • Why Do Some Americans Call Europeans “communist”?

    A lot of answers, but americans actually don’t know why everything european sounds ‘communist’.

    1. europeans trade opportunity for certainty. Americans and people who come to America trade certainty for opportunity.
    2. America was invented in modern language as a ‘third way’, between the aristocracy(authority) and the church(communism), by creating a middle class (entrepreneurial) order consisting of nothing but markets.
    3. American law, and our culture, and much of how americans think ‘differently’ is because we view exchanging certainty for opportunity as ‘limiting our freedoms’. All our wealth goes to people who are entrepreneurs (look it up, its the highest paying occupation). Anyone can become an entrepreneur here and everything is set up to assist you.
    4. In particular, our law is back-loaded. Meaning that there is nothing to constrain you up front, and we handle exceptions (failures) through litigation (expensively). This is one of the primary reasons for rates of american innovation. (It is nearly impossible to do business in europe compared to america. I still have a UK company and it’s one hundred times more expensive and difficult for absolutely no reason.) Continental law is front loaded in the old (French) tradition, and this, and the heavy taxation serve as a barrier to innovation – especially technical innovation. In this sense, European law evolved out of bureaucracy and into high capital which is possible to organize in the Germanic countries.
    5. Everyone talks about medical care and this is chimera. The problem is that we haven’t modernized our laws to prevent medical bankruptcy, and provided catastrophic care. Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN GET IT HERE FAST instead of waiting, and we don’t want to lose that. We have medicaid and medicare and EVERYONE can get health care. Our medicine is more expensive because there is more of it, it is faster, it is better. We don’t want to lose that. (Spoken as someone who has endured the arcane british system). So we need to revise our laws, and increase catastrophic care. But supplying more of an expensive good leads to its abuse and overconsumption.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-Americans-call-Europeans-Communist

  • I could go into extraordinary detail as to precisely why this is so, but it boil

    I could go into extraordinary detail as to precisely why this is so, but it boils down to the cost of learning, cost of xmission, ability to negotiate increasingly complex networks of returns, with lower fear of error/failure, AND MUCH LOWER fear of defection from the agreements.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 16:24:34 UTC

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  • Yep. Been saying this forever. Each point of median IQ gain produces multipliers

    Yep. Been saying this forever. Each point of median IQ gain produces multipliers that I can’t put data together on yet, but are THE BEST INVESTMENT RETURN WE CAN MAKE BAR NONE. Same the opposite direction. Each point of loss is the greatest loss a people can take.

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-24 16:06:01 UTC

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  • My answer to Why is innovation worshipped in modern societies around the globe?

    My answer to Why is innovation worshipped in modern societies around the globe? https://www.quora.com/Why-is-innovation-worshipped-in-modern-societies-around-the-globe/answer/Curt-Doolittle?srid=u4Qv

    Source date (UTC): 2018-01-21 12:07:33 UTC

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