Most people who stay mediocre aren't short on talent — the difference usually comes down to a handful of small, repeatable habits that keep you mediocre at work.
Two conversations keep happening at almost every company I've worked with as CTO: which cloud service to buy, and later, whether to be in the cloud at all.
It's a dream for a lot of software professionals I know: move abroad, and the salary in dollars looks like a different universe. But the exchange rate is the wrong way to judge it.