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        <description>Books and other reading

	*  I, Claudius
	*  Is the People’s Action Party here to stay? Analysing the resilience of the one-party dominant state in Singapore
	*  Soul Mountain
	*  Culture Code
	*  Japan: A Short Cultural History
	*  Has China Won?

Essays

	*  Chivalry by CS Lewis

History

	*  2020-08-29 created</description>
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        <description>Chivalry

	*  Ideal Launcelot vs School Bully
	*  We need Chivalry, but it is not natural -- look at school bully/hero
		*  Brave at war, meek in the hall

	*  Art, not nature -- the canvas is the person
	*  in 1940s -- lacking -- ? industrialization/ democratization?</description>
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        <description>Culture Code

Author: Clotaire Rapaille

5 principles

	*  Umbrella hypnotism: You can't believe what people say
	*  emotion is the energy required to learn anything - emotion --&gt; imprinting .. e.g. Normandy peasant land beating
	*  structure - not the content is message e.g. Romeo &amp; Juliet vs West Side Story</description>
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        <description>Doctor and Nurse

William Osler

	*  First graduating class of nurses at Johns Hopkins
	*  Robert Louis Steven describing doctors as “the flower of our civilization”
	*  Abstraction or closing off from details -- Eliot's quote from Middlemarch

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        <description>Elements of Fracture Fixation

Lexicon

	*  force
	*  types and effect of loading 
	*  loading modes 
	*  useful definitions

Metals

	*  metal working methods and their effects
	*  fabrication
	*  corrosion
	*  standards
	*  metals used
	*  clinical relevance</description>
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        <description>Has China Won?

	&quot; p.54 US lacks comprehensive strategy on China. lacks 'spiritual vitality'. Trump's tariff moves doesn't deter or hurt China long term.&quot;

	&quot; p.57. Erosion of US risks to USD. USD as a reserve currency while benefitting them, is also its Achilles heel. It is based on 'trust' (Ruchir Sharma). Pressures away from USD: as weaponizing of the USD decreases trust;</description>
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        <description>How we think and learn

Ch 1. The General Nature of Human Cognition and Learning: Probably Not Quite What You Think It Is

Cognition and thinking

Many animals can learn, but humans are unique in that:

	*  complex language
	*  repository of knowledge - culture/society</description>
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        <description>I Claudius

Chapter 1

Claudius introduces himself and speaks about his visit to Sibyl and her prophesy.

Chapter 2

Claudius introduces his father, Augustus and Livia.

Chapter 3 (2021-06-21)

Persons

	*  Augustus, Livia, Marcellus - Julia, Agrippa, Octavius, Maecenaes, Tiberius (Uncle), Drusus (Father)</description>
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        <description>Japan: A Short Cultural history

Origins

	*  Origins hazy - Cosmogonic and Theogonic aspects
	*  Physical artifacts provide most useful information about origin
	*  Written record of earliest origins embelished for a variety of reasons
	*  People - mixed - from South, mainland, Ural-Altaic</description>
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        <description>Old Humanities and Newe Science

William Osler

	&quot; Twin berries on one stem, grevious damage has been done to both in regarding the Humanities and Science in any other light than complemental&quot;

	&quot; The extraordinary development of modern science may be her undoing. Specialism, now a necessity, has fragmented the specialties themselves in a way that makes the outlook hazardous. Everywhere men</description>
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        <description>The reflective practitioner: How professionals think in action

Chapters

Part I PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND REFLECTION-IN-ACTION

Chapter 1:18 pages

The Crisis of Confidence in Professional Knowledge

Chapter 2:50 pages

From Technical Rationality to Reflection-in- Action</description>
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        <description>Is the People’s Action Party here to stay? Analysing the resilience of the one-party dominant state in Singapore

Summary

	*  This book posits that Singapore is a one party dominant state lead by the PAP.
		*  Concept of one party dominant vs one party state (e.g. China, Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea) - Maurice Duverger 1954</description>
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        <description>Soul Mountain {Ling Shan}

Author: Gao Xing Jian

Setting

	*  Xianglong mountains near Sichuan
	*  year

Notes

	*  Friend on the  bus and the start
	*  Qiang songmaster and dancer
	*  Wuyizhen pavillion
	*  Song Guotai compound
	*  The lady and the storyteller</description>
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        <description>The Digital Doctor

EHR

c: 2017-06-27

	*  US EHR “market failure” - “Systemic, not communal”, “need government standard” -- government intervention
	*  “Free isn't cheap enough” Kocher - on Wellpoint's free computers to California doctors</description>
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        <description>The Fixed Period

by William Osler

	&quot; Tho' much is taken, much abides&quot;

Tennyson

	&quot; Who can understand a man's motive? Does he always understand his own?&quot;

Osler

	&quot; What has been accomplished is only an earnest of what shall be done in the future. Upon our heels a fresh perfection must tread, born of us, fated to excel us</description>
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