I traveled to Cuba in 2012 as part of a research trip and seeing all the ways people have managed to hack together fixes for everything was perhaps the most inc

I traveled to Cuba in 2012 as part of a research trip and seeing all the ways people have managed to hack together fixes for everything was perhaps the most incredible part of the experience. The embargo makes it difficult for Cubans to get a lot of things we take for granted but the Cuban people are perhaps the most inventive I've ever met. Living under the sanctions for decades has made creative problem solving a part of their culture.