Having a scriptable infrastructure requires upfront work but can pay huge dividends in bringing new engineers onto your infra team, as well as helping in disaster-recovery scenarios.

Doing the simple thing first doesn't mean your solution will work forever.

Learn to use ten minutes intelligently. It will pay you huge dividends.

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

Innovation happens best when people of different backgrounds come together to solve the world's toughest challenges and, in the process, can create new jobs and opportunities. I'm hopeful that updated immigration policies will encourage entrepreneurs from around the world to help tackle these opportunities in the U.S.

It was great. It was a huge emotional boost. It makes our team that much better. We are at 100 percent and headed to UVM; what more can you ask for?