Chapter 17

The Enron E-mails

How does any innovator find the courage to move forward with an inspiration to the point where an abstract idea becomes reality? When do we become the journalists of our own creation? Journalists ask the so-called Ws: Who, What, Where, When, Why, and How. We knew those ­questions were going to be asked.

We had to ask ourselves Who? Well, that was easy. We were the Who. We kept searching the Internet to find anyone else who had this early warning idea plus a methodology for implementing it. At the point when we decided to write this book, we had come up empty. We had found no other technology that we thought would work. In short, it was up to us.

We had to ask What? We knew the answer to that one, too. We were trying ...

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