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Which of my current views would change if my incentives were different?
So everyone has delusions about how the world works. You, me, everyone.
there’s value in saying, “I could have more and do more, but this is good enough.”
E quanto a Celeborn, marido de Galadriel desde a Primeira Era? Este ainda não é mencionado.
What do I desperately want to be true, so much that I think it’s true when it’s clearly not?
The iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (SHY) now sports an average yield to maturity of 3.5%.
Which of my current views would I disagree with if I were born in a different country or generation?
Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem: any sufficiently rich formal system, together with an interpretation, has strings which are true but unprovable.
So solitude can mean introspection, it can mean the concentration of focused work, and it can mean sustained reading. All of these help you to know yourself better.
Em publicações em que o autor ainda estava vivo, eles aparecem de forma extremamente concisa nos apêndices de O Senhor dos Anéis, que aliás, são os trechos de que os produtores do Prime Video têm direito de adaptação.
Além disso, é claro que o affair que o artífice de Eregion tem por Galadriel nos escritos de Tolkien não aparecerá na série, pois, ao que tudo indica, essa queda pela elfa será transferida ao misterioso Halbrand (Charlie Vickers).
What we have now are the greatest technocrats the world has ever seen, people who have been trained to be incredibly good at one specific thing, but who have no interest in anything beyond their area of expertise. What we don’t have are leaders.
Incentives are the strongest force in the world. They explain why good people do awful things, why smart people do stupid things, and why ordinary people do amazing things. Nearly everyone underestimates how much their own beliefs and actions are influenced by their incentives, many of which are designed to fulfill someone else’s goals.
A fuga de Galadriel à revelia de Gil-galad e o jovem Elrond conferem bem o espírito tolkieniano: enquanto a elfa percebe que o Mal está à espreita, o alto-rei de Lindon prevê, com Elrond, que se Galadriel ficasse, ela atrairia a presença do Mal para si de alguma forma. Ali entra o embate entre escolha e destino, sempre presente nos contos épicos do autor.
After writing every sentence it helps to ask “Would the reader still get my point if I deleted that line?” Not “Does that sentence make sense?” Millions of unnecessary sentences make sense. Treating words like they cost you something is the right mindset. A writer once recommended imagining someone pays you $100 for every word you remove from your draft. Another quipped: “Leave out the parts readers tend to skip.”
Life in late 1930s Europe wasn’t treating Gödel well. For one, he was unable to find an academic position because he had too many Jewish friends (a common side-effect of being a mathematician). And to make matters worse he had been conscripted to the German army. So Gödel did the logical thing: he fled to the U.S., got a position at Princeton, and hung out with his buddy Albert Einstein (who confessed that the only reason he showed up to work was for “the privilege of walking home with Gödel.”)
So why is reading books any better than reading tweets or wall posts? Well, sometimes it isn’t. Sometimes, you need to put down your book, if only to think about what you’re reading, what you think about what you’re reading. But a book has two advantages over a tweet. First, the person who wrote it thought about it a lot more carefully. The book is the result of his solitude, his attempt to think for himself. Second, most books are old. This is not a disadvantage: this is precisely what makes them valuable. They stand against the conventional wisdom of today simply because they’re not from today.
German novelist Thomas Mann said that a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. The best writers write much more slowly than everyone else, and the better they are, the slower they write. James Joyce wrote Ulysses, the greatest novel of the 20th century, at the rate of about a hundred words a day—half the length of the selection I read you earlier from Heart of Darkness—for seven years. T. S. Eliot, one of the greatest poets our country has ever produced, wrote about 150 pages of poetry over the course of his entire 25-year career. That’s half a page a month. So it is with any other form of thought. You do your best thinking by slowing down and concentrating.
A pequena Galadriel já aparece ali voluntariosa e até mesmo um tanto impaciente. Nesse aspecto, apesar de entender a necessidade de haver uma certa humanidade entre as crianças élficas ali — seria chatíssimo e completamente inverossímil os pequenos elfinhos sem o entrosamento e a espontaneidade de crianças “normais” — e que a intenção era demonstrar o temperamento forte de Galadriel de natureza, essa representação parece descompassada em certa medida com a proposta do legendário de Tolkien. Morfydd Clark interpreta Galadriel Explico. Em sua mitologia literária, o autor trata em muitos momentos da “queda”, e a dos elfos ocorre justamente com a corrupção de Fëanor, culminando com a destruição das Árvores de Valinor por ação de Melkor e Ungoliant. Na época em que Galadriel aparece criança, essa queda ainda não havia acontecido, portanto esse caráter mais irascível dela não transpareceria com atos de violência, como a pequena elfa ameaçando agredir os amiguinhos provocadores. É claro que eles poderiam (e deveriam!) já demonstrar esse caráter forte e voluntarioso dela, mesmo antes da queda, porém talvez com outros recursos. Mas isso é só um pequeno detalhe de poucos segundos, um recurso tipicamente audiovisual que não compromete o todo da produção. A explicação do porquê de Galadriel já adulta tomar as armas e a liderança em alguns momentos é convincente, embora romanceada.