Ok, so @itcrowd has some very good questions that the answers will definitely guide the resources recommended to you. However, it may be difficult to answer as a thoughtful and complete answer to each question, for you, will depend on you knowing some stuff already.

So on that note, a great place for you to start figuring out what you want to do with EE is to watch Dave Jones over on the EEVBlog YT channel (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-jcaTn170), then go and join the EEVBlog forum.

Some good playlists to start off with: 1) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHtWlH0UOZNt... 2) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3C5D963B695411B6 3) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEB166338AC3AA2F5 4) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHugqRHdt46S... 5) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvOlSehNtuHu2FviAaZai...

This is only scratching the surface, enjoy!

EDIT: Here's an intro to Dave Jones, in case you don't know who he is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a-jcaTn170

Interesting. Wonder what the actual feasibility of this is in terms of cost and production process. If the math works out it could be a really good thing. Or just another "Solar Roadways" pipe-dream. Will have to dig into this more and see.

> This is clearly a PR exercise

I hope this isn't the case, but that's what kept repeating in my head while I was reading it. If this is an honest sentiment and the start of a change in the way business runs then we'll see that in short order. But, in the end, it all comes down to making money and not "the greater good".

> "Dealing fairly and ethically with our suppliers" omits the responsibility to choose suppliers ethically, as well.

Great point! But, if this document is a starting point in Ernest, then as long as this is followed then it's a good start. The next iteration should, then, include a strong commitment to objective fairness in the supplier selection process. Whether or not that actually happens will depend on the commitment to remove corruption in the process.

Especially with the new trend of the toolset being a target now. It would be more favorable to keep as much control over the tool-sets as possible. When self-hosting tools one has better control over performance, monitoring, access restriction, and fine tuning.

I've heard for years that going "all-digital" can be bad for productivity, I saw it myself when I first started out as a freelance developer. For the first year or so after I went full time, only working from a desk in the garage I had problems keeping up on my to-do list.

But this is where I'll disagree with the premise of the topic. After about the year I had come up with a pretty good system of a to-do list and high-level notes in a Word doc. Maybe it's because I'm an engineer at heart and have a (sometimes) curse of always looking at a system and seeing the ways it can be improved. I will concede that I am not normal in that way, I have spoken to many freelancers that had to keep a paper to-do list to keep from losing tasks and notes. My real problem with using paper for to-dos and notes is that I've always been on the move, and I have severe CRS.

Returning to the tips from the article, these tips are new to me and I wish I had heard these back then. 10 years ago when I started out as a freelancer I didn't have any issues focusing when it was time to work. Now though is a different story! Lol. I'll be putting a couple of these into my workflow and habits. Thanks for posting this, @jonbaer!