Igo Figure 99%

A figure is a number or a shape. But to figure is to slowly, clumsily, patiently make sense of something. We’ve turned figuring into “solve for X.” Go reminded me that real figuring looks more like: place stone, lose stone, pause, breathe, place again. Your turn You don’t have to play Go to borrow this.

“Alright. I go figure.”

Here’s the catch — the board has 361 intersections. More possible games than atoms in the universe. You can’t memorize your way to winning. You have to read the board, not recite it. igo figure

No dice. No luck. No take-backs.

4 minutes I’ve never been good at just sitting with confusion. A figure is a number or a shape

Then go figure. Liked this? Share it with someone who needs permission to move slower. — Jamie

Not sarcastically. Not impatiently. Just as a promise to yourself that you’ll stay in the room with the mystery for five more minutes. Your turn You don’t have to play Go to borrow this

Then another.

When I don’t understand something, my instinct is to attack it — read faster, click around, ask three people at once. But last month, a friend taught me the board game Go , and suddenly I heard myself saying something I almost never say: