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Ep13 - On Healthy Lifestyle And Adventure with Lincoln Booth, Global Expansion Manager, AWS Infrastructure

February 06, 2020 • Charlie Kunken & Sid Dhodi, Finance At Amazon

“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

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

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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