We're thrilled to be joined by the incredible Kelsey Hightower! 

Kelsey is a Principal Engineer at Google, an author, and a prolific speaker and tweeter of tech trends. Kelsey is a vocal Kubernetes advocate and has played a massive part in teaching the Tech industry about the power and intricacies of Kubernetes. Kelsey is also possibly the kindest and most helpful person in Tech today!

In this episode we discuss:

1.  How Kelsey became known as the nicest person in tech [00:01:57]
2.  Kelsey's background and how he got to where he is today [00:05:59]
3.  How to go from running your own company to joining the big enterprise world [00:08:53]
4.  How Kelsey stays up-to-date on tech [00:12:33]
5.  On how to give people advice [00:15:12]
6. Self-taught vs University education [00:19:01]
7. Dealing with frustration when learning [00:21:01]
8. Kelsey's experience of going from a data center to Principle engineer. How to move from step A to step B [00:27:57]
9. Responding when you feel like you're the token under-represented person [00:32:18]
10. The one thing Kelsey wishes everyone would take-away to help Tech become a better place [00:35:55]
11. Open Source as a model for collaboration and a framework for disagreements [00:39:08]
12. Kubernetes, and whether it has lived up to the hype [00:41:58]
13. How to influence [00:46:49]

You can see the doodle of Kelsey plus find all the links and show notes over on https://humansplus.tech/podcast-kelsey-hightower/