Focus, Dammit

• 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

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