#19: Two Life Lessons from A Series of Unfortunate Events
Important lessons often take a long time to gestate. I didn’t really understand linear algebra until five years after I first took it – like in many other fields, I had to climb far up the tower to appreciate the foundations. Getting Plato’s Republic took me ten years of fleeting thoughts. Even for movies, forming an opinion sometimes takes me months of rumination.
I’ve recently been thinking about my favorite childhood book series, A Series of Unfortunate Events. It seems that it took me nearly fifteen years to understand two of its core lessons…
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