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wheat7420··on The Incompatible Food Triad
So you thought they would taste good paired but terrible with all three?
wheat7420··on Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
Numerous characters both major and minor get chapter names like that. Asha gets a chapter where she's "the sacrifice", Victarion gets a chapter where he's "the iron suitor" and chapters that just go by their name as well. Arya has been "the ugly little girl" in the chapter title. Theon has been "the ghost of winterfel".

Regardless, he's still a point of view character that isn't central to the plot.

wheat7420··on Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
This is an analysis of the books, who have just one author.
wheat7420··on Mathematicians mapped “Game of Thrones” relationship to find the main character
Readers of the books know that is definitely not the case.

For instance Areo Hotah is a repeated point of view character who is merely there to provide prospective on the court of Dorne as a silent body guard. Fans of the series call him "the camera who rides."

On the other hand GRRM has said characters like Littlefinger and Varys will never have chapters because their plans are too revealing of the end of the book. They are too central to be PoV characters.

wheat7420··on Jeff Bezos’ letter to shareholders
Your quote is from the section where they are explaining their first attempt at an auction house and how it failed but how their current system of third party retailers is implementing a similar idea in a successful way.

They kept the same vision/goal but they learned from how their first attempt failed and iterated on it until it succeeded.

wheat7420··on Mobile phones are 'cooking' men's sperm
He was pointing out that the article's use of phrase "male sperm" is an unnecessarily clarification, as there could be no other type.