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A Koan: Anecdote from my time at Facebook
- qrush 15y agoWhat?
- reso 15y agoActually, I said the same thing after I wrote it. Initially, I tried to convey the anecdote in prose, but I couldn't decide what the "message" was. I was reading GEB at the time, which inspired me to try a more indirect approach, in the style of a Zen Koan. The theory is that this lets the reader decide what their takeaway is.
- mdwrigh2 15y agoAnd how did it go?
- reso 15y agoOf those four goals, I hit one of them in a month, then hit another two months after that. I still consider it the high-point of my career thusfar.
- Wilduck 15y agoI'm not sure how this is a koan [1]. It's a clever turn at the end of the story, but I'm pretty sure I understood the meaning through rational thought. Am I missing some key contradiction/ambiguity? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dan