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Fourteen Hours to Kill at the Airport, two Dead Batteries, and a lesson learned

When was the last time you found yourself needing AA batteries while stuck at an airport because, oops, your wireless mouse batteries are dead, only to discover that no store in the airport sells AA batteries anymore? more...

They Told Me My Private Life Was Interfering with My Job

One of the strangest sentences you can ever hear from your supervisor is: "Your private life is interfering with your job." more...

Born in the Real World, Living in the Matrix - Immigrant Life In America Explained

I once found myself deep in conversation with an African-American brother who told me he was married to a Nigerian woman. As we talked, I explained to him how I see America, and something in my perspective caught his attention. He leaned in, not because I was criticizing, but because what I was saying sounded familiar to him. more...

The Red Pill and the Blue Pill: What The Matrix Was Really Asking Us

In my previous article, I compared life in America to the Matrix and my place of birth, Haiti, to the real world. That comparison rests on a single moment from the film that many people quote but few fully understand. more...

When You're Too Sleepy to Think, but Too Passionate to Stop

There's a strange space you enter when you're working with passion -- that place where your eyes are burning, your brain is foggy, and the only logical thing to do is go to sleep... but you can't. Not yet. Not until this one last thing is done. more...