Dave Evans

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2,777 appearances 6 recordings 4 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 6 Jul

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Hidden Brain · Designing a Life that Matters · 27 Apr 2026 podcast

What did you want to do with this?

How did you want to make a difference to the world?

It was very simple.

I wanted to solve the energy crisis.

I had an absolute epiphany.

I was waiting in line at a store one day and there was a television playing up in the corner of the store and the news was on and gasoline had suddenly hit a dollar a gallon, a dollar a gallon, 1973.

And I said, that's got to stop.

We've got to get off this oil thing.

That's what I need to do.

I have to solve the energy crisis.

So that's all I was trying to do.

Well, the world was doing all kinds of things, you know.

We were still reeling from trying to end the Vietnam War.

Civil rights was going full blast.

I'm a full-on boomer, so we were trying to change the world.

I gave myself a trip all the way around the country in a beat-up old van as my graduation present, and it was a great summer because that was the bicentennial.

So I went to about 15 different apple pie contests across the country.

So there was a lot of Americana, there was a lot of stress, it was a really confusing time, but it was certainly, we have to fix the world.

And I was quite convinced I was ready to do that because we had the technology, we had the right ideas, but what we were missing was the social will.

There was a small fact that was left out of the brochure of my master's degree, which is, it's very difficult to get a job in an industry that doesn't exist yet.

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