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Was Don Lancaster really a "guru"?

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vk3yedotcom:
Was just reading through the secret money machine book (downloadable from https://www.tinaja.com/ebksamp1.shtml ).

He reminded me of Talking Electronics. You'd be going through pages on FM bugs and there'd be a page about money or business or something.

I wonder if Don Lancaster was one of Colin Mitchell's influences?

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: vk3yedotcom on February 10, 2019, 10:22:21 am ---I wonder if Don Lancaster was one of Colin Mitchell's influences?

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I seem to recall him mentioning Don in my interviews with him, but not entirely sure.
He admitted to stealing good ideas, like Forest Mimm's grid based paper schematics.
I loved those little business tidbits in the TE magazines, and I think I mentioned that in the interview somewhere.

EEVblog:
FYI, our AmpHour interview with Forrest Mimms

https://theamphour.com/171-an-interview-with-forrest-mims-snell-solisequious-scientist/

soldar:
Don Lancaster was and is knowledgeable but he also distilled plain old common sense and practicality. He had articles against nonsense like pseudoscience, perpetual motion machines and similar idiocies.  Besides the technical stuff I learned a lot about how to follow a logical way of thinking, the scientific method, etc. That is something that I find lacking in many people.  We need to teach and stress that and he did a lot in that direction.


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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: soldar on February 10, 2019, 01:18:37 pm ---Don Lancaster was and is knowledgeable but he also distilled plain old common sense and practicality. He had articles against nonsense like pseudoscience, perpetual motion machines and similar idiocies.  Besides the technical stuff I learned a lot about how to follow a logical way of thinking, the scientific method, etc. That is something that I find lacking in many people.  We need to teach and stress that and he did a lot in that direction.

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Unfortunately there are so very few people doing this. The number of Youtubers for example that do any sort technical debunking videos you could count on one hand, and there are so many people around that say it's a "waste of time".

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