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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michael David S. Sy’s Followers (90)
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Michael David S. Sy
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August 2012
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Cries and Whispers: The Philippine Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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Pandemic: The Philippine Response to COVID-19
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The Lies that Sanitized a Dictatorship
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Albert Einstein transformed the topography of modern physics with his theories of relativity that deviated from the established notions of classical mechanics. These theories expanded the capabilities of physical science. It was such a landmark disco
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Michael’s Recent Updates
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| As someone who has worked in pharmacovigilance, the revelations in Harris’s No More Tears were unexpected, yet unsurprising: J&J’s conduct was salient from a business standpoint, but ethically indefensible. The section on Prolift and Risperdal were p ...more | |
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| Nicholas II was a complex figure, imbued with the domineering ideals of his father, Alexander III, and of his tutor, Konstantin Pobedonostsev. Both believed in the absolute power of the monarchy, and both were out of touch with the evolving political ...more | |
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I love that Robson tackles subjects that I also deem relevant to my life, such as exercise and intelligence. Were I to summarize the book in a sentence, it would be: "The mind is a powerful weapon and tool to improve and transcend one's limits." The ...more |
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| There are two major issues I have with this book: first, its essays are inconsistent, and second, there are many concepts which are repetitive. It might have helped if there were fewer experts tapped, but the number of people involved with this work ...more | |
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| I think it's been more than a decade since I last read a novel by Hemingway. I respect his literary style and concision, but I prefer Faulkner more. I dug this out of one of the drawers where I placed old electronics I owned, and it was untouched unt ...more | |
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Michael David
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| On average, I am familiar with 75 out of 100 challenging and difficult words, which is something I'm proud of. It's by no means perfect, and I have a lot to improve, but being familiar with many challenging terms will definitely help me speed through ...more | |
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| There are few atrocious books that masquerade as novels, and this is one of the few that deserves a zero. It reminds me of Nietzsche's apothegmatic Thus Spoke Zarathustra, but the philosophy is horribly trite. There is no overarching story: character ...more | |
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Michael David
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I think I would rate this book much higher if this weren’t as expensive, as it simply restates fundamentally similar tenets by more prominent psychologists and authors in less expensive works. The growth mindset was studied and popularized by Carol D ...more |
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“...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
― The Sound and the Fury
― The Sound and the Fury
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
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