508: Descartes' Demon
21 August 2025

508: Descartes' Demon

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William Griffin spoke to us about hardware-in-the-loop testing, simulation, terminology, learning complex topics, and books.

We don’t usually expand upon the show title but Wikipedia has a rabbit hole called Evil demon so there you go.

Books mentioned:

    Make: Electronic Music from Scratch: A Beginner's Guide to Homegrown Audio Gizmos

    CMOS Cookbook

    How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business

    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!” Adventures of a Curious Character

    Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

    Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time (though we then talked about a different Jeffrey Pfeffer book: 7 Rules of Power.

William Griffin and  Bailey Steinfadt (333) have started Spark Embedded, an embedded software and simulation consultancy. 

Transcript

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