At a recent team dinner, TechCabal’s editor-in-chief, Fu’ad Lawal, laughed at something ridiculous I did and declared I should be making skits. He was half-joking, but he is not wrong. A skit is a short, humorous performance that often parodies a common situation. When I say “skit” in this article, I’m not referring to the

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