I'm interested in Linux because of the technology, and Linux wasn't started as any kind of rebellion against the 'evil Microsoft empire.'

See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

Part of doing Linux was that I had to communicate a lot more instead of just being a geek in front of a computer.

To be honest, the fact that people trust you gives you a lot of power over people. Having another person's trust is more powerful than all other management techniques put together.

You can do a lot of things with git, and many of the rules of what you *should* do are not so much technical limitations but are about what works well when working together with other people. So git is a very powerful set of tools.