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“Life’s what happens when you’re planning other things.” John Lennon via Lincoln Booth
Today Sid and I get a rare opportunity to sit down with one of our business partners, Lincoln Booth, a Global Expansion Manager for data center supply who has recently relocated from Singapore to Dublin.
Linc and his team are the people who make sure Elastic Cloud Compute is actually elastic. Today we talk a little about that magic behind the cloud, we talk about Linc’s awesome story about how he’s made health and fitness a priority, both on the road and at home and how life really is just one big adventure.
This will get you off the couch, it certainly got us moving! Please enjoy!
3:00 | Making ‘Elastic Cloud Compute’ actually elastic
4:30 | Getting into cloud computing – to finance backpacking adventures
8:30 | Amazon origin story – from submarine cabling to AWS, the planets aligned
10:00 | Growing too fast to only hire cloud computing ‘lifers’, and that’s good!
11:55 | What will make people successful here? - willingness to learn & grow, come with solutions
14:15 | Biggest surprise about Amazon – the amount of autonomy combined with the scale
15:15 | A massive health transformation amidst the bus-dev lifestyle – losing 30 kilos (60 lbs!)
17:15 | The moment of transformation & the formula: no alcohol, all plant-based, exercise
20:15 | The fitness aspect – High intensity interval training & boxing
22:30 | Bringing the healthy lifestyle on the road – you can do it, swapping the hotel bar for the gym
24:45 | Linc asks a few questions about Sid & Charlie’s training
28:45 | What does Linc like for fun outside of work – Adventures with his boys, and letting them come up with the ideas
31:20 | Parenting tips – just listening, being present and giving them responsibility
34:05 | consuming content – documentaries
35:35 | The historical figure question – John Lennn
37:15 | Linc’s general life philosophy – Do it. “Life’s what happens when your planning other things”
38:50 | Advice to younger self – don’t be so serious and be open to any adventure
Lincoln on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lincoln-booth-1880094/
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