517: A Direct, Sensible Podcast

About this episode

Nathan Jones and Chris Svec conduct a performance review while discussing educational initiatives and fundraising efforts.

Nathan Jones and Chris Svec give Chris and Elecia their 2025 performance review. Donations went to Elevate Tutoring , an organization that provides funding and support to low-income and first-generation college students as well as free STEM tutoring for underserved schools. Embedded has already sent in the match to the donations for a total of over $5000. Here is a list of all Embedded.fm episodes . We mentioned the Foldscope , a small but mighty microscope. Also, mentioned was the book If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire? The show this week is sponsored by us. And you. Please consider supporting Embedded.fm on Ko-fi or Patreon . Or tell a friend about the show. Transcript

People in this episode

Host: Nathan Jones

Guest: Chris Svec

Topics covered

• performance review
• education
• STEM tutoring
• microscopy
• fundraising

Keywords

• performance review
• Elevate Tutoring
• Foldscope
• STEM
• fundraising

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Elevate Tutoring

Products: Foldscope

Books & works: If I Only Changed the Software, Why is the Phone on Fire?

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