Curt Doolittle

Theme: Productivity

  • When Might Apple Begin To Decline?

    When the profitability of the iPhone is sufficiently diminished that a new income stream must be developed, yet Apple execs are unwilling to conquer the desktop market that is sitting there for them to just take away from Microsoft on a scale not seen since Microsoft did the same to IBM.

    https://www.quora.com/When-might-Apple-begin-to-decline

  • PLATE (personal) BUSINESS PROJECT Get to feature complete. Decide if Positions a

    PLATE

    (personal)

    BUSINESS PROJECT

    Get to feature complete.

    Decide if Positions and Levels makes v1 (not sure)

    Decide if sales functionality makes v1 or not (I think so. too easy.)

    Spin up Skills Research.

    Spin up Help & Tutorials (text and video)

    Spin up personality inventory (somehow).

    Get central repository online (and licensing later)

    Get marketer working on website content.

    Move team West.

    Taxes. Banking.

    PHILOSOPHY PROJECT

    My daily ‘thoughts of the moment’

    Research (currently on Commons, then institutions I think.)

    Videos (with various unsavory characters)

    Editing the Glossary.

    “The Book”

    “The Powerpoint” ~100 slides now.

    Trying to meet others “in person.”

    SIDE PROJECTS

    Redo L-A Websites (both of them)

    – Design site with team and artist

    – Get the data dumps,

    – Write the import / migration routines.

    – Get approval on designs and features.

    Bitcoin Betting V2 (more races) and V3 (more games?)

    Propertarians.com (how to position)

    Propertarianism.com updated with current posts.

    Aristocratia (youtube) updated with content and videos.

    FAMILY

    Mom/House

    Sis/House

    Daughter / Saddle

    Storage etc

    OTHER

    Keep eye on putin’s aggressions

    The usual social stuff.

    Food, water, sleep, and life etc.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-19 17:14:00 UTC

  • VIDEO PRODUCTION RELATIVE COSTS UKRAINE VS UK. Studio for 2 hrs, 3 camera setup,

    VIDEO PRODUCTION RELATIVE COSTS UKRAINE VS UK.

    Studio for 2 hrs, 3 camera setup, two soft lights, backlights, chairs, desk, delivered as a rough edit: $300. Two videos $600. Same in London $3,000. Two videos $6,000 Yes. That’s right. Cost of 3 Nikon Cameras with standard lenses, three tripods, two box lights, back light, a few extension cords, and a hotel room to make it in… about 4K. Cost of using existing Mac/iMovie, zero. Joy of synchronizing three videos and sound, priceless. So you give that to the guys in Lviv to edit for you. 🙂

    I love Ukraine.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-18 13:41:00 UTC

  • Nike Store. London. Oxford Circus. Terrible staff. Should have videoed her. Acti

    Nike Store. London. Oxford Circus. Terrible staff. Should have videoed her. Acting as if we are privileged to have her attention. The man next to her waiting on three different customers at once. This one, making us queue up and using her little order machine to make sure that no one asked questions, so that she handled as few customers, and as few questions as possible. Starting tomorrow I will video lousy clerks in London shops. I mean, my experience with this country is that ‘work’ is no longer part of the conceptual or behavioral inventory. But at least honestly still is.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 15:01:00 UTC

  • It’s amazing how slow service is at some restaurants until you start to walk out

    It’s amazing how slow service is at some restaurants until you start to walk out without paying. Then all of a sudden it seems like customer service is more important than chit chat. Walked out day before yesterday but left paid bill without tip on the front desk.

    Why is it that you have time to chase me for the bill, but not time to come to my table?

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-17 14:58:00 UTC

  • Why Do We Keep Hearing That Production In America Is Now A Pipe Dream Since It Is So Much Cheaper To Produce Abroad? Wasn’t This The Case Throughout Much Of America’s History?

    Americans still produce. Since 1972 the cost per unit has been steadily increasing. And america still produces complex goods. And inly complex goods that require increasingly skilled labor. However, from the civil war onward, America produced cheap goods because of cheap land and labor – so much so that it caused the european depression if the 1870s as prices and labor collapsed in europe. So the rest of the world, by converting from communism to capitalism, has done to ameruca what ameruca did to europe. 

    As such, we cannot produce jobs for american laborers. And so our labor pool is increasing while our economic ability to create jobs for labor is decreasing. 

    The solution is autarkic. But that has ewually dangerous insequences.

    We won the battle with world communism.  We may or may not win the battle with world Islamism. Which is the same battle in different words.

    But in foung so we gave up our privileged position in the world economy.

    Had we retained our homogeneity our high trust woukd have been our advantage.  But that is dissipating as well. 

    The future doesnt look politucally positive even if it looks technologically positive.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-keep-hearing-that-production-in-America-is-now-a-pipe-dream-since-it-is-so-much-cheaper-to-produce-abroad-Wasnt-this-the-case-throughout-much-of-Americas-history

  • Why Do We Keep Hearing That Production In America Is Now A Pipe Dream Since It Is So Much Cheaper To Produce Abroad? Wasn’t This The Case Throughout Much Of America’s History?

    Americans still produce. Since 1972 the cost per unit has been steadily increasing. And america still produces complex goods. And inly complex goods that require increasingly skilled labor. However, from the civil war onward, America produced cheap goods because of cheap land and labor – so much so that it caused the european depression if the 1870s as prices and labor collapsed in europe. So the rest of the world, by converting from communism to capitalism, has done to ameruca what ameruca did to europe. 

    As such, we cannot produce jobs for american laborers. And so our labor pool is increasing while our economic ability to create jobs for labor is decreasing. 

    The solution is autarkic. But that has ewually dangerous insequences.

    We won the battle with world communism.  We may or may not win the battle with world Islamism. Which is the same battle in different words.

    But in foung so we gave up our privileged position in the world economy.

    Had we retained our homogeneity our high trust woukd have been our advantage.  But that is dissipating as well. 

    The future doesnt look politucally positive even if it looks technologically positive.

    https://www.quora.com/Why-do-we-keep-hearing-that-production-in-America-is-now-a-pipe-dream-since-it-is-so-much-cheaper-to-produce-abroad-Wasnt-this-the-case-throughout-much-of-Americas-history

  • Capitalism: Why Are Investors And Shareholders Profitseekers Alone?

    They are not.

    The data clearly demonstrates that companies operate at the minimum profitability that is tolerated by creditors, and that employees and management seek the highest extraction possible that creditors will tolerate. 

    Government bureaucrats demonstrate exactly the same behavior, but government, because it is a monopoly cannot be ‘corrected’ by the forces of competition, or in practice, by law, and therefore companies tend to have very short life spans, and even very big and successful companies have very short periods at the top, where governments can persist as corrupt enterprises indefinitely.

    https://www.quora.com/Capitalism-Why-are-investors-and-shareholders-profitseekers-alone

  • Capitalism: Why Are Investors And Shareholders Profitseekers Alone?

    They are not.

    The data clearly demonstrates that companies operate at the minimum profitability that is tolerated by creditors, and that employees and management seek the highest extraction possible that creditors will tolerate. 

    Government bureaucrats demonstrate exactly the same behavior, but government, because it is a monopoly cannot be ‘corrected’ by the forces of competition, or in practice, by law, and therefore companies tend to have very short life spans, and even very big and successful companies have very short periods at the top, where governments can persist as corrupt enterprises indefinitely.

    https://www.quora.com/Capitalism-Why-are-investors-and-shareholders-profitseekers-alone

  • (Deny parasitism, deny consumption, force production and capital accumulation.)

    (Deny parasitism, deny consumption, force production and capital accumulation.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-10 06:48:00 UTC