Here is a link to his notes from the first lecture in case if anyone is interested: <a href="http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1" rel="nofollow">http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1</a>
I'm auditing the class as well and I like it quite a lot. Make sure to not get TLDR discouraged and at least scroll all the way down for the (very amusing) video that was played in class. Direct link:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I&feature=playe...</a>
from 2007 but still semi-relevant :)
Loved this. As someone who was into tech but oblivious to the tech scene in the 90's this was incredibly useful, will read as many as you write!<p>(anyone know if there are videos of the lectures available?)
From the notes: "by late 1998, the NASDAQ was at about 1400—just 400 points higher than it was in August ’95. "<p>A 40% increase in a stock index in ~3 years is an amazingly huge bull market and the sense of frothiness was everywhere at the time. In general, telescoping the "bubble" to 18 months doesn't make sense to me -- the craziness really started with the Netscape IPO. But it was a hockey stick and so those 28 months of the curve look particularly crazy.
College dropout advocate Peter Thiel to teach course at Stanford<p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?articleId=20158638&siteId=568" rel="nofollow">http://www.mercurynews.com/portlet/article/html/fragments/pr...</a>