Entity page · built from email

Intel

Personal / professional contact's employer

Assembled from 72 messages that mention Intel across eight Enron mailboxes, Dec 1999 – Feb 2002. Every line below was read out of correspondence, and every line opens the message it came from.

Chipmaker Enron sold power to under an EEI master from August 2001, and a high-tech company Enron hoped would speak for the industry on California deregulation.

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 2 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.

72messages across eight mailboxes name it
55of those are cited as a source somewhere on this page
37facts still worth knowing to someone who was not there
16were worth knowing at one point, and the brain records what makes them expire