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Peter Thiel’s CS183: Startup - Class 14 Notes Essay
Here is an essay version of my class notes from Class 14 of CS183: Startup. Errors and omissions are mine. Credit for good stuff is Peter’s.
Class 14 Notes Essay—Seeing Green
I. Thinking About Energy
Alternative energy and cleantech have attracted an enormous amount of investment capital and attention over the last decade. Almost nothing has worked as well as people expected. The cleantech experience can thus be quite instructive. Asking important questions about what went wrong and what can be done better is a very good way to review and apply many of the things we’ve talked about in class.
A. The Right Framework
How should one think about energy as a sector? What’s an appropriate theoretical framework?
Revisiting the 2x2 matrix of determinate/indeterminate and optimistic/pessimistic futures may be useful. To recap, here are examples of those respective quadrants:
Neuroscience: Synchronized Brains: Feeling Strong Emotions Makes People's Brains 'Tick Together'
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals, a research team at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre in Finland has revealed.
Experiencing strong emotions synchronizes brain activity across individuals. (Credit: Image courtesy…
life:
May 20, 1908: Jimmy Stewart is born.
For its September 24, 1945, cover story, LIFE Magazine’s Peter Stackpole followed Stewart around his Pennsylvania hometown, chronicling what it looked like when the Hollywood star returned home a war hero. (Peter Stackpole—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Read more about the story, and see the photos here.
