Thanks for joining us. Im congressman jim himes, and im just delighted to be joining chris miller to talk about his his new book, chippewa. Im im im holding it right here. I read it. I as i just told the author, if you told me that i was going to enjoy a 400 page book on the history of semiconductors, i would have said you were crazy. But this reads like a spy novel. It is. It is. It is absolutely gripping, believe it or not, you know, going back to the 1950s when they semiconductor. First of all, the concept of the semiconductor. But subsequently the the evolution of the industry began. So im just so thrilled to be joined by professor chris miller. And chris, i really again great book could not have been more timely considering the congressional passage of the chips act. And well get to that. But let me start with the fairly obvious question, which is, you know, youre a professor. I looked at the list of the books youd written. Youd written mostly on russia about the transformation of
What i thought i would do is i have three short excerpts to read tonight. Then we could have a little discussion and sign books. Has anyone actually read the book yet . Some people are still working on into. Just to give some context the format is unusual. It is the category stretcher basically written prayer merely as a memoir and a very personal story about my experience trying everything i could possibly fate of and how i completely failed and how i tried to make sense of that failure to put it into a bigger context and the idea for turning this into a book when i started to hear stories from other brendon that were eerily similar about birding out and i realize how maxed out we all are and i wanted to industry and in a bigger way. And i try to include a little essay from that chapter and i will share one of those tonight. I guess where i would like to start is in the middle. I have a baby girl and a stepdaughter to is a toddler and i started a big management job at a Consulting Fir
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