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- We resume our discussion of “specialist” vs “generalist”, as discussed many other times on the show.
- We started out talking about how Chris recently hired Bilal, who is a great developer focused on Zephyr. We discuss how that kind of focus can be useful to a young developer.
- Chris was first exposed to Zephyr on the BeagleConnect, a new IoT product that uses Greybus coming from the BeagleBoard.org foundation soon.
- Past guest Greg Davill – MJ of home assembly?
- 10x engineer
- Book recommendations:
- Anti-Recommendation
- Tom Brady talking about his improvment over time
- Michael Phelps (long arms, swimmer) vs Hicham El Guerrouj physiology (long legs, distance runner). Chris later realized this was discussed in James Clear’s Atomic Habit book.
- Nick Yarris on the Joe Rogan podcast
- Should we have called the episode, “Chris and Dave talk sports”?
- Next week we’ll have Jay Carlson on to talk about his recent tome on building Embedded linux systems, ask your questions here.
- Jay also wrote The Amazing $1 microcontroller
- Chris used the “Send to Kindle” Chrome plugin to read on his Kindle
- Jay has been on two great episodes of Embedded.fm, 226 and 303
- The $1 micro page is how Chris started working with the EFM8LB1
- Raspberry Pi 4 Compute was recently announced
- It is on an 8 year cycle. No one wants to get a “Last time buy” notice, espeically when designed into an industrial scenario.
- Baremetal programming on the TinyAVR 0
- Chris was surprised Dave hadn’t heard of a “long range radio power transmitter“, but apparently it’s an older article!
- Bare Conductive (where past guest Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith works) wrote about how they have maintained an office, albeit changed in the era of COVID
- Dave mentioned Altium used to have “half cube” (low walls) but not like the startups do with a truly open office plan.
- WeWork has glass boxes
- Dave is downsizing commercial property
- “Does this DMM bring me joy?” a la Marie Kondo
- Both Dave and Chris downsizing
- Dan Anderson, the creator of the pink polyethelene bags, talks about static (content warning: not PC)
- 345 kV substation and 34.5 kV substation reviews
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