When I consider the fact that the month, day and year all match and will not happen again for another 80 or so years, I almost feel like I need to make a wish or play a scratch off card or something.

After meeting Mayor Corey Booker last Saturday at the #FOCUS100 conference, I thought I was on a birthday roll. Turns out, Jay Z was competing with me.

You would think that with all that I know about these types of contests, I would have been prepared for what lie ahead with me at the helm of one.

While at Mashable’s Social Good Conference about a month ago, Ericsson, the title sponsor of the event, asked me to take a second to ask a ‘How Come” question.