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I think the difference between happiness and joy is that the first is more individual and the second is potentially more than that.

I used to see happiness as the fleeting one and joy as the lasting one, but on reflection, both of them can be fleeting.

The pains of being woke

In the wake of the events around Ferguson, MO in 2013 and the rise of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, I tried to get woke.

Remembering Mayor Menino

Thomas Michael Menino was laid to rest on November 3, 2014 in Hyde Park a little more than a week after suspending his cancer treatments to spend his final days with his family. My feelings about his passing are nowhere as important as those of his family, friends, and mentees, but I…

The same medium that so effectively transmits a howling message of change also appears to undermine the ability to make it.

Social media amplifies the human tendency to bind with one’s own kind. It tends…

What I Learned from Denrele Edun at Social Media Week Lagos

Pine Street Inn

Ending homelessness one key and/or certificate at a time