Put down your phone. Ignore the timer. Make one small, imperfect move.
Then go figure. Liked this? Share it with someone who needs permission to move slower. — Jamie igo figure
You can attack every stone your opponent places and still lose. Sometimes the winning move is to leave them alone and build your own quiet corner. I think about this now in meetings, in relationships, in creative work. Put down your phone
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: Then go figure
April 17, 2026
I Go, Figure: What an Ancient Board Game Taught Me About Modern Life
Not I’ll figure it out. Not let’s Google it . Just: I go figure . As in: I will literally go into the figuring. Slowly. Without an answer waiting at the end. In case you’ve never played: Go is a 4,000-year-old board game from China. Two players place black and white stones on a 19x19 grid. The goal? Surround more territory than your opponent.