en-US Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:44:43 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg Review7469660228 Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:44:43 -0700 /review/show/7469660228 Eduardo gave 5 stars to Ultra-Something (Paperback) by Brendan Leonard
bookshelves: humor
It sounds like an accomplishment to say I read this in one sitting but that’s due more to the format of the book, most pages only half-full of words. But that’s a feature, not a bug. Each page is a fully-formulated thought and, often, the next page builds on what came on the previous page. So why not write in a more-standard format? Because often Leonard inserts what seems like a non sequitur thought on a page in the middle of a narrative. But, as I read, I realized he was inviting me to tie that non sequitur into the larger narrative. He kept offering different frames through which to view his stories of ultra-running. He kept giving me ways to admit that running for a really long time really is crazy while at the same time giving me ways to see that we’re all a little crazy, each in our own way.

The book is sprinkled with little quotes, ideas, and perspectives that I’ll carry with me through running and through the rest of life. I think that’s what I value most in all of Leonard’s work, how his world view gently infiltrates into mine. Like him, I mostly run alone, but I certainly take him with me everywhere I go. ]]> Review7361430597 Mon, 24 Mar 2025 05:09:11 -0700 /review/show/7361430597 Eduardo gave 4 stars to Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen (Hardcover) by James G. March
bookshelves: decision-making
I chased down this book because I believed it would contain more about something I heard discussed, namely three questions decision makers are imagined to ask themselves. The questions are “What kind of situation is this?��, “What kind of person am I?��, and “What does a person like me do in a situation like this?��
It turns out these questions are not an exclusive view of decision making, but one of two views that March describes in detail. His thorough examination of these two views, the logic of consequences and the logic of appropriateness are, to some extent, the foundation of the ensuing exploration of decision making.
I found many other interesting ideas about decision making contained in this book, some of these I had read before and some were new to me. The most interesting of the new-to-me ideas were about the role of ambiguity and the (mostly bad) uses of temporal sorting.
While the book is written mainly from the point of view of decision making in an organization, it is easily applied to other settings. ]]> ReadStatus9221930067 Sun, 23 Mar 2025 10:40:55 -0700 /review/show/7035913192 Eduardo marked as limbo Risk and Rationality by Lara Buchak
]]> Review7361430597 Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:57:15 -0700 /review/show/7361430597 Eduardo gave 4 stars to Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen (Hardcover) by James G. March
bookshelves: decision-making
I chased down this book because I believed it would contain more about something I heard discussed, namely three questions decision makers are imagined to ask themselves. The questions are “What kind of situation is this?��, “What kind of person am I?��, and “What does a person like me do in a situation like this?��
It turns out these questions are not an exclusive view of decision making, but one of two views that March describes in detail. His thorough examination of these two views, the logic of consequences and the logic of appropriateness are, to some extent, the foundation of the ensuing exploration of decision making.
I found many other interesting ideas about decision making contained in this book, some of these I had read before and some were new to me. The most interesting of the new-to-me ideas were about the role of ambiguity and the (mostly bad) uses of temporal sorting.
While the book is written mainly from the point of view of decision making in an organization, it is easily applied to other settings. ]]> ReadStatus9133496725 Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:15:48 -0800 /review/show/7366237895 Eduardo wants to read Learning To Be an “Ecological�� Coach: Developing Attuned & Adaptable Coaching Skills by Rob Gray
]]> ReadStatus9126671158 Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:50:55 -0800 /review/show/7361430597 Eduardo is currently reading Primer on Decision Making: How Decisions Happen by James G. March
]]> Review7125930889 Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:50:02 -0800 /review/show/7125930889 Eduardo gave 4 stars to Sports Coaching Cultures: From Practice to Theory (Paperback) by Robyn L. Jones
bookshelves: sports-coaches
I really liked the structure of this book as well as its content. The first part of the book (chapters 2-9) tells the stories of eight coaches, which were constructed from extensive interviews. I found myself comparing and contrasting each coach’s style and philosophy against those from the previous chapters. The second part (chapters 10-13) synthesizes the stories of the coaches by looking at them through four different theoretical lenses. I really appreciated how the authors brought each coach to life and then explained how they coach using academic concepts. That structure helps both practitioners and academics understand how the other half lives, letting each read about coaching through a lens that they are comfortable with and a lens they may not know as well. This book invites others to write similar explorations (perhaps in the directions suggested in the conclusion) but perhaps using different theoretical lenses for the latter half. ]]> ReadStatus8828424957 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:35:56 -0800 /review/show/7146497057 Eduardo wants to read Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas
]]> ReadStatus8828420485 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:35:14 -0800 /review/show/7146493737 Eduardo wants to read A More Just Future: Psychological Tools for Reckoning with Our Past and Driving Social Change by Dolly Chugh
]]> ReadStatus8828419124 Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:35:02 -0800 /review/show/7146492720 Eduardo wants to read Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States by Joey L. Mogul
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