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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<div class="border-t border-border pt-6 space-y-4">
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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">
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"Run, Forrest, Run!" — <em>Forrest Gump</em> (1994), Paramount Pictures. Clip via
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSMxl1V8FSg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="underline hover:text-foreground">Movieclips/YouTube</a>.
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<div class="text-sm text-muted-foreground leading-relaxed space-y-3 max-w-prose">
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<p>
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There's a reason that scene hits so hard. As an infant, I wore old-school foot braces — a
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pair of rigid shoes bolted to a metal bar that kept my legs aligned. I still get phantom
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sensations of not being able to move my legs independently, decades later. Dreams where
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I'm trying to run but something invisible holds my feet together.
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</p>
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<p>
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Forrest Mims' notebooks were my version of Jenny yelling "Run!" His hand-drawn circuits
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didn't care about your background or your limitations. They just said: here's how a
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transistor works, here's how to build something real. That directness — no gatekeeping,
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no prerequisites, just knowledge laid bare on the page — made electronics feel like
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something I could actually <em>do</em>. Not just read about. Do.
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</p>
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<p>
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Learning from Mims felt like the moment the braces broke off. Suddenly the thing that
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seemed impossibly complicated was just... circuits. Components. Connections you could
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trace with your finger. And once you built your first blinking LED or heard your first
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555 timer squeal, there was no going back. You were running.
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</p>
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