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Podcasting “Are We Having Fun Yet?”

The first three parts of my ongoing Medium series on queueing, aggregate demand management and theme parks.

Cory Doctorow
2 min readAug 2, 2021
A crowd of goths in front of the Disneyland castle posed for a group photo at the 2007 ‘Bat’s Day in the Fun Park.’

This week on my podcast, I read the first three parts of “Are We Having Fun Yet?” my ongoing Medium series on what we can learn about aggregate demand management and scarcity from the history of queues at Disney theme parks.

Part I: Are We Having Fun Yet?

https://gen.medium.com/b-are-we-having-fun-yet-part-i-4c7ef0ce9ee5

Part II: Boredom and its discontents

https://doctorow.medium.com/boredom-and-its-discontents-part-ii-95b10f8d6041

Part III: Now you’ve got two problems

https://doctorow.medium.com/now-youve-got-two-problems-part-iii-45e1328c5ae1

I also published a fourth item in the series yesterday, “Managing aggregate demand,” about auctions, queuing, fairness and antitrust.

https://doctorow.medium.com/managing-aggregate-demand-part-iv-8d2022a5125b

New installments will go up on Sundays — next is “Expectations management.”

The episode is here:

https://craphound.com/podcast/2021/08/02/are-we-having-fun-yet/

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

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