The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

We often discuss housing refugees, but not how you help return refugees back to their home countries. As a result, in a post-disaster or post-conflict situation, we end up with intractable refugee camps that end up staying for decades.

When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared.

Treat the world like a failed state, then you can understand the players needed to fix it.

A career is a job you love, right? That's what a career should be. If you're in a job that you hate, you should quit. That's the way I look at it. I'm in a job that I love so I'm going to make it my career.

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.