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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:
    • Ultralearning
    • Mastery
    • First 20 Hours
    • Anti-Recommendation
      • Range
      • 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
        • Thanks to our Patrons for sponsoring today's episode. You can become one of them by going to Patreon.com/TheAmpHour. A special thanks to our corporate sponsor Binho.

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