Add Run Forrest Run video clip and personal narrative

Embedded video clip from Movieclips/YouTube, transcoded for web
(H.264 MP4 + VP9 WebM with poster frame). Personal essay
connecting Forrest Gump's leg braces scene to the experience
of learning electronics from Mims' notebooks.
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@ -125,6 +125,48 @@ const allTopics = [...new Set(mimsBooks.flatMap(book => book.data.topics))].sort
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<h3 class="text-lg font-semibold title-accent text-foreground">"Run, Forrest, Run!"</h3>
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<figcaption class="px-3 py-2 text-[11px] text-muted-foreground bg-muted/50">
"Run, Forrest, Run!" — <em>Forrest Gump</em> (1994), Paramount Pictures. Clip via
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMxl1V8FSg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="underline hover:text-foreground">Movieclips/YouTube</a>.
</figcaption>
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<p>
There's a reason that scene hits so hard. As an infant, I wore old-school foot braces — a
pair of rigid shoes bolted to a metal bar that kept my legs aligned. I still get phantom
sensations of not being able to move my legs independently, decades later. Dreams where
I'm trying to run but something invisible holds my feet together.
</p>
<p>
Forrest Mims' notebooks were my version of Jenny yelling "Run!" His hand-drawn circuits
didn't care about your background or your limitations. They just said: here's how a
transistor works, here's how to build something real. That directness — no gatekeeping,
no prerequisites, just knowledge laid bare on the page — made electronics feel like
something I could actually <em>do</em>. Not just read about. Do.
</p>
<p>
Learning from Mims felt like the moment the braces broke off. Suddenly the thing that
seemed impossibly complicated was just... circuits. Components. Connections you could
trace with your finger. And once you built your first blinking LED or heard your first
555 timer squeal, there was no going back. You were running.
</p>
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