About the Author

Middle school dropout. Eyes bigger than stomach. Lives in Berkeley.

Cofounder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy. We’re making inexpensive, efficient energy storage systems — the missing link in the plan to make the world’s electrical grid green.

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Einfall is, roughly, the German word for ‘insight’, or ‘bright idea’, which she discovered while reading the wonderful book ‘How to Solve It”, by Polya. It’s worth owning a copy.


3 Responses to “About the Author”

  1. I like Amory Lovins’s description of Einfall: “temporary lapses of stupidity”. I second the Polya recommendation

  2. by Fortress, do you mean http://research.sun.com/projects/plrg/ ?!
    its barely even a stable language implementation!

  3. It’s not stable enough to build on substantially yet (we’re awaiting static steps for the compiler,) but it’s an excellent language. I’m involved in a semi-secret project to produce an interactive environment with Fortress as a base. Right now I’m using Mathematica as my native language.

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