Entity page · built from email

Calpine

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Assembled from 283 messages that mention Calpine across eight Enron mailboxes, Dec 1999 – Jan 2002. Every line below was read out of correspondence, and every line opens the message it came from.

San Jose independent power producer that traded with Enron, bought its Pastoria plant, was sued by it, and won the largest share of California's long-term state power contracts.

What the brain knew on
Jul 1999Jul 2000Jul 2001Jun 2002

Drag it, or use the arrow keys for one step at a time and Home and End for the ends. Durable facts accumulate; the ones that were only true for a while appear, then expire with a reason attached. The relationship itself changes 3 times.

What we know

The consolidated view, as it stood on the selected date.

Contents

Sections in the order they mattered to the company. The counts follow the date you have selected.

Two kinds of fact

A brain that only keeps what is permanently true is a reference book, and it would have been no use to anyone at Enron in November 2001. A brain that keeps everything is the inbox again. The distinction that matters is not true versus false. It is durable versus current. A current fact carries what would end it. Sometimes the message gives a date and the page shows it; more often it gives only the condition, and the page says that instead of inventing a date the mail never stated.

283messages across eight mailboxes name it
270of those are cited as a source somewhere on this page
220facts still worth knowing to someone who was not there
157were worth knowing at one point, and the brain records what makes them expire