Presumably some deficiency in my brain of some type, I rarely read fiction. My last fiction book I read was when I lived in Eugene, Oregon —— it was All the Light You Cannot See by XXX.

I obsessively love learning different things. It’s one of the purest dopamine rushes I experience: when I feel like I’ve understood something, it’s the same effect of having a little bell go off followed by a reward.

Electronics to me was something that did not make sense as a kid. I was highly interested in it but it was also so poorly taught and I didn’t have resources (only very early internet).

AI when I was a kid would have made me dangerous. Veritasium videos made me sort of see why it was inconsistent.

710 kHz (KIRO Seattle), this wave has a wavelength of $w = 1/(2 \pi f) = 422$ meters.

Your ferrite rod antenna is 102 mm long — roughly 1/4000th of a wavelength.