Mike Sawyer

Finding Our True Political Center Mike Sawyer

Growing up, my younger brother Kevin and I loved the challenge of designing our own games. He went on to run a war game company. But I had higher aspirations. I thought I could apply these skills in theoretical physics. It turned out that the subject matter was just a bit too intense for me, so I had to settle for more mundane things....like teaching, insurance and finance. After I retired from Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in 2011, I started the blog "Dare to Ask" at topsawyer.com. One of the subjects I covered was ranked choice voting. I began collaborating with a college professor friend of mine; and I came to realize that this too, was a "game theory" problem, more consequential than board games, more down to earth than theoretical physics, but challenging in its own way.