If there's one thing we've learned from the Bush administration, it's how to lie about the qualifications for your job. Instead of "I don't know why I'm on this panel", try, "I'm looking forward to the challenges presented by this topic".
On the Energy Panel, you can adopt any one of several strategies. "The major problem with formulating energy policy is the number of people on committees'. If this gets a laugh (which it should with the right audience), "my solution: smaller committees". Then leave.
If it doesn't get a laugh (which is won't with libertarians who take panels like these entirely too seriously), either leave anyway or pretend to take copious notes.
If you want to be a contributing member of the panel but don't think you have enough expertise to add to anything the panelists say, play Devil's Advocate. If someone says something stupid and/or hazy, interrupt, "wait, that doesn't make any sense... could you be more specific?" Get other panelists to challenge each other.
And if you want to play to your strengths, talk about Energy Policy in Middle Earth. Such as it is. Do Fire Wizards increase Global Warming? What kind of greenhouse gasses are generated by Mount Doom?
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Date: 2007-05-19 04:21 pm (UTC)On the Energy Panel, you can adopt any one of several strategies. "The major problem with formulating energy policy is the number of people on committees'. If this gets a laugh (which it should with the right audience), "my solution: smaller committees". Then leave.
If it doesn't get a laugh (which is won't with libertarians who take panels like these entirely too seriously), either leave anyway or pretend to take copious notes.
If you want to be a contributing member of the panel but don't think you have enough expertise to add to anything the panelists say, play Devil's Advocate. If someone says something stupid and/or hazy, interrupt, "wait, that doesn't make any sense... could you be more specific?" Get other panelists to challenge each other.
And if you want to play to your strengths, talk about Energy Policy in Middle Earth. Such as it is. Do Fire Wizards increase Global Warming? What kind of greenhouse gasses are generated by Mount Doom?