koan

intro’d to the term/word while reading Zaid‘s social labs..

From a pragmatic point of view, however, the value of a koan is not in answering the question, for there is no answer. It’s that the Zen student, in struggling with the question, arrives at a new way of being, valuing, if you like, the very nature of the struggle.

The struggle generates value, producing new insights and change. Treating a koan like a project is recipe for failure.

Social labs are not projects.