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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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Michael David S. Sy
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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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| About a year ago, I had received my laboratory results. While everything else was normal, I had an elevated LDL-C in my lipid profile. I thought that diet would have improved it, as I already do regular exercise. Sadly, even with my decrease of latte ...more | |
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| I still hold Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain to be the quintessential work of African-American literature, and Coates's memoir isn't going to change it. For one, Coates had a present father who, despite his profligacy with women, always showed u ...more | |
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| I often purchase reprints of popular books to read in between heavy, heady texts. These intermezzos serve as aperitifs to works such as Knox's Adult Development and Learning or Piketty's Capital: they whet my appetite toward reading these meaning-fil ...more | |
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I laughed when Strutzel unintendedly created a solecism by mistakenly using neologism for neoplasm. Other than that, I learned about diacritical, prodiorthosis, and brannigan. I learned boondoggle yesterday, but it was refreshing to encounter it toda ...more |
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The four basic tenets of accountability: 1) See it - Identify the problem. 2) Own it - Understand that I am responsible to solve it. 3) Solve it - Find ways to address that problem. 4) Do it - Take a risk, fail early, fail better, and then succeed. |
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| I like that Ryan Holiday adequately distills the most important tenets of behavioral economics: in major decisions, it is important to bide one's time and deliberate, but also act when the decision has to be made. Herbert Simon identifies this concep ...more | |
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This would be a great book for those who don't like to read, but would like a pick-me-up now and then. The entries are broken into bite-sized, pithy vignettes that go down easily. Issues with this work are the repetitive themes, but this is an easy a ...more |
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| I had started a few books that I'm still reading: I'm currently in the middle of an introductory text to psychology, Al-Ghazzali's Tahafut al-Falasifah, and Brookfield's Developing Critical Thinking. I rarely start multiple reads, but reading recentl ...more | |
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| Pasternak, who was more remembered for Doctor Zhivago, also wrote a short autobiography regarding his flight from different humanities until he finally stayed with poetry. His autobiography starts off with his experience with music and mentorship wit ...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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