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Wow, decades in this field and it finally took your comment to connect my childhood LEGO obsession with coding. Simple enough, but it never actually crossed my mind. The funny thing is, I’ve always linked my love for storytelling to LEGO building, but not coding. Thanks for the insight, that just snapped into place.

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Did I love Lego because I was like this, or am I like this because I loved Lego?

That'll bake your noodle for a good long while :)

Whoa…

If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there, did make a sound?

- Zen koan I read a while ago, might have got the wording a bit wrong, but a fun one.

Just googled, and it is Wikipedia too, but "koan" is only in the See also section:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_a_tree_falls_in_a_forest_...

With respect to Lego and coding, now I'm thinking of the game Infinifactory, which has the nice property of yielding puzzle-answers where you can go: "Hey, I built that! Look at it operate!"

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