Scholar of the Week: A New Politics Forum Tradition, This Week: Volinbham

#77
#77
volinbham said:
I'm currently reading "The Art of Innovation" by Tom Kelley (the Groucho Marx looking guy from IDEO). It's interesting but more war stories than detailed how to.
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I particiapted in one of IDEO's sessions in Palo Alto last year, it was pretty good.

If you like Kelly's book, you should also look at Tom Peter's "Re-Imagine"
 
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#82
vol_in_ar said:
I particiapted in one of IDEO's sessions in Palo Alto last year, it was pretty good.

If you like Kelly's book, you should also look at Tom Peter's "Re-Imagine"
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Cool - what was the subject matter, or can you discuss?
 
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tidwell said:
When/how/why did you become an avid open wheel/motorsports fan?
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May of 1983 - went to the Indy 500 on a lark - my buddy's brother was going to Purdue so we drove up, had a wild time (endless bizarre events) and I was hooked. The speed just blew me away.

Until the last 2 years, I've pretty much gone to Indy every year. I've been to Mid-Ohio 3 times, Milwaukee 3 times (all for open-wheel).

I can watch people race just about anything.

I plan to start autocrossing this Fall.
 
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#97
Would you like to see ChampCar and IRL reunified and in your opinion what would it take for that to happen?
 
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#98
How do you explain the success of city water dept's, cooperative electic companies, etc at keeping costs of their services low. While commercial energy companies, i.e. natural gas, oil, have skyrocketing prices and profits.
 
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tidwell said:
Would you like to see ChampCar and IRL reunified and in your opinion what would it take for that to happen?
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In a perfect world there would be one high-end open wheel series- we had that with CART and Indy but ultimately I think Tony George was right - the result sucked but in the end ChampCar is not viable while the IRL is.

I'd like to see the IRL be the open wheel series of choice for North America and I'd like to see some ovals replaced with some road courses (I've always been partial to Mid-Ohio and the Cleveland race at the Burke Airport course).

If NASCAR fans actually watched a few IRL races they way they watch NASCAR races, I think they would be diehard IRL rans too.
 
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#100
oklavol said:
How do you explain the success of city water dept's, cooperative electic companies, etc at keeping costs of their services low. While commercial energy companies, i.e. natural gas, oil, have skyrocketing prices and profits.
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I don't know that commercial energy companies have skyrocketing profits while coops and municipalities are naturally low cost but...

Energy as a product naturally favors a model of limited suppliers due to the high fixed cost nature of the business. I don't see any predetermined distinction between government run vs. private run approach to such a market situation. I can see theoretically why a govt. run version would be a lower cost situation but my experience locally (Birmingham Water Works) shows an example of more inefficiency than any for-profit entity could dream of.

Profit is a red herring. Look at total cost to the citizenry served and I'd bet you'll see a lower total cost on average for privatized public services compared to government run public services.
 
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