Occassional thoughts about orienteering
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Friday, December 29, 2006 Top 10 in 2006 - Stuff to readI've read a couple of books (or articles) this year that aren't about orienteering, but are about orienteering. Reading these helps me think about orienteering, even if the subject isn't orienteering.Deliberate Practice I read an article in the NY Times about deliberate practice and the implications on expertise. Check out what I wrote about the first article and then what I wrote about expertise. This stuff is very relevant to thinking about orienteering and about what makes a great orienteer. Cooking More inspiration, from an unlikely source, can be found in The Making of a Chef: Mastering Heat at the Culinary Institute of America by Michael Ruhlman. Check out what I wrote about perfection and passion. Orienteering Specific I'll make two recommendations for reading specifically about orienteering: 1. Presentations from the training camp in Hamilton in January 2006. The presentations have lots of good information and inspiration. 2. Orienteering Today. The publishers had all sorts of trouble getting the magazine out and getting it mailed. It can be frustrating to wait...and wait...and wait. But the magazine is so sweet that once you've got a copy in your hands, you forget all your troubles. Baseball Baseball? What does baseball have to do with orienteering. Nothing, nothing at all. But, I'm currently reading two baseball books that I highly recommend. Seth Mnookin's Feeding the Monster tracks the Boston Redsox through the sale of the team, a near miss, and their World Series win. The book is both a good story and a nice examination of how an organization works (and doesn't work). The Hardball Times Annual 2007 is another favorite. The annual is one of those baseball books that is largely a collection of statistics with a bunch of articles. The genre has been around and popular since the early Bill James' Abstracts came out around 1980. The problem with the genre is that either the analysis is crap or the writers get so caught up with the technical details (disecting the nuances of the statistics), that the stuff becomes unreadable and uninteresting. The writers start to look inward. They miss the forest for the trees. They forget that numbers and analysis are about posing and answering interesting questions - to let you learn something that will make watching a baseball game more interesting. The Hardball Times Annual doesn't make that mistake. The Hardball Times Annual is written as if the game is what matters. They get it. The statistics aren't anything more than a tool for looking at the game. That's in the spirit of Bill James. That's what James did so well and why his Abstracts were so fun to read. I think that is why I like the Hardball Time Annual so much. Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 7:58 PM 
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