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Real world koans encounters in the wild.

Koan #1: The Nature of A Session

When attempting to log out of their Microsoft account one morning, the young Riku encountered an error message and it was said thereafter he had ascended into Nirvana.

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Koan #2: The Definition of Undefined

Under urgent protest of the over-worked product manager to “get things done” and “achieve our quarterly OKR”, Kaito dutifully ran his Node JS script to move terabytes of pointless data from one computer to the computer next to it; upon observing the failure Kaito was unable to continue in his Satori.

ReferenceError: undefined is not defined