A Koan: Anecdote from my time at Facebook
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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.