nunosempere.github.io/reading-log/Jan-2019.md

## 11/Jan/2019

*Una gran lección sobre qué sea poesía. Gastón Baquero comenta un poema de Lezama Lima*, [Enlace](http://ccm-cidehamete.blogspot.com/2019/01/una-gran-leccion-sobre-que-sea-poesia.html), [Archivado](https://web.archive.org/web/20190112073755/http://ccm-cidehamete.blogspot.com/2019/01/una-gran-leccion-sobre-que-sea-poesia.html). Sobre los diferentes niveles de lectura de un poema de vanguardia.
 
*Rithmomachy*. [Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20170402165335/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rithmomachy). A mathematical game with some similarities to chess.
 
*Sane thinking about mental health problems*. [Link](https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/sane-thinking-about-mental-problems/), [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20170618223222/https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2016/12/12/sane-thinking-about-mental-problems/). Skillfully navigating different categories relating to mental illness.

*Mastering the Core Teachings of the Budha*. Onwards to enlightenment. [Free online version](https://www.mctb.org/).

## 12/Jan/2019
*The Ends don't justify the means among humans*. [Link]( https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/K9ZaZXDnL3SEmYZqB/ends-don-t-justify-means-among-humans), *No archive link*. Your answer to the trolley problem changes if you don't trust yourself not to be corrupted in real life situations.

John Wick. Violent, mindless movie. Exactly what I wanted at that point.

*The Product Management of Mathematics*, Alon Amit. [Link](https://affinemess.quora.com/The-Product-Management-of-Mathematics), [Archive.today](http://archive.is/zcfte). A point on the pedagogy of maths. Not only what it does, but why we want to do that.

## 13/Jan/2019
*The Mundality of Excellence*. [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/afjy3a/the_mundanity_of_excellence/), [Archive link](https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/afjy3a/the_mundanity_of_excellence/) On how the difference between different levels of excellence is qualitative.

*Advice to a young demon concerning the Rationalist movement* [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/adxug8/advice_to_a_young_demon_concerning_the/) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/adxug8/advice_to_a_young_demon_concerning_the/)

*CS Lewis for the outgroup* [Link](https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/aeb0d1/cs_lewis_for_the_outgroup/) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190112052858/https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/aeb0d1/cs_lewis_for_the_outgroup/). 

## 14-15/Jan/2019
*Methods for Treating Depression* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sagbSbm3KdH6tHQKP/methods-for-treating-depression) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190116125918/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/sagbSbm3KdH6tHQKP/methods-for-treating-depression). 
*Advice in fighting depression* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qGyrtXgqYKpwZvLSn/advice-in-fighting-depression) 
*Emotional tools for the beginner rationalist* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GKpiSeLuGWYTGu4CC/emotional-tools-for-the-beginner-rationalist) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190116125736/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/GKpiSeLuGWYTGu4CC/emotional-tools-for-the-beginner-rationalist). 
*The Feeling Good Handbook*
*Russia Buys Quarter of World Yuan Reserves in Shift From Dollar* [Link](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-dumps-101-billion-dollar-085753166.html) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20190110141641/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-dumps-101-billion-dollar-085753166.html). 
*Ureshiku Naritai* [Link](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xnPFYBuaGhpq869mY/ureshiku-naritai) [Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20180101000000*/https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xnPFYBuaGhpq869mY/ureshiku-naritai)
*The Shield of Achilles*, Auden, and in particular the following verses:

A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,  
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird  
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:  
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,  
Were axioms to him, who’d never heard  
Of any world where promises were kept,  
Or one could weep because another wept.  

## 16/Jan/2019
*Is self-reporting happiness reliable?* [Link](https://www.clearerthinking.org/single-post/2019/01/08/Is-self-reporting-happiness-reliable) [Archive](). 
*reddit.com/r/streamentry*
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https://thingofthings.wordpress.com/2019/01/16/scrupulosity-sequence-5-restorative-justice/

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