Figure: Igo

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:

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

“Alright. I go figure.”

No dice. No luck. No take-backs.