alt Hacker NewsI think the title is a reference to David Foster Wallace's awesome article, Consider the Lobster.
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rsynnott • today at 5:13 PM
David Foster Wallace has always irritated me, in that I've greatly enjoyed all of his essays that I've read, including this one, but I bounced off the novel hard.
owlninja • today at 4:21 PM
Which is homage to Consider the Oyster I believe.
bananzamba • today at 4:17 PM
So that is where Silicon Valley got the "Consider the X" running gag from.
Maybe "Consider the ant" from The Bible?
Which I only know about from the John Wyndham story[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consider_Her_Ways