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MIT

Academic institution / school

Assembled from 34 messages that mention MIT across eight Enron mailboxes, Jul 2000 – Nov 2001. Every line below was read out of correspondence, and every line opens the message it came from.

A recruiting school for Enron and prospective research-lab partner whose economist Paul Joskow argued generators withheld California capacity, and which named EnronOnline its E-Business of the Year.

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.

34messages across eight mailboxes name it
18of those are cited as a source somewhere on this page
10facts still worth knowing to someone who was not there
8were worth knowing at one point, and the brain records what makes them expire