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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...

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

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...

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...

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...