_Guide to Management Ideas and Gurus_, Tim Hindle

I read this as a paper book, because it is not available in kindle form. It is available in audiobook form. Go figure.

It’s got two main sections: Ideas and Gurus. Just like the label says.

I bought it about 8 years ago (end of april 2015) and it has been sitting around ever since, _occasionally_ used as a reference and occasionally leafed through. It survived every book purge until this one, when I finally decided it was Read It Or Get Rid of It. Having read it, I will now get rid of it.

The goal in buying it was to raise my background familiarity with the ideas and people referred to in articles in the business press. I obviously could always just look them up in wikipedia, but every time I do that, I wind up spending time over on wikipedia and never finishing the article I was in the middle of. Think of this as an exercise in “cultural literacy” of the business journalism category.

It’s also branded The Economist, with predictable impact. It’s somewhat dated, and is written by a Brit, so there’s a certain amount of that going on as well.

I’m not sure what else to say about it? Oh, I guess one observation. I only recently realized that a large minority (perhaps a plurality) of philosophy majors intend and/or do become clergy. I was a little surprised by the quantity of people in this book whose degree was in psychology, social psychology, or sociology. However, I’m starting to think I really should have seen that coming. I mean, if you are in business, you really fucking do have to understand how people, collectively and individually, think, feel and do, especially when it comes to purchasing goods and services.

GBBO and eating disorders

I don’t and never have watched GBBO. I have very, very, very limited awareness of its content, other than that it involves baking and is a competition. I recently bought (for $1.99, and I’m really regretting the purchase) Ruby Tandoh’s _Cook as you are_, and I kept having questions about who the target audience is for this book (I’m pretty sure it’s not me!) and one way to try to get an answer to that question is to better understand who the author is. The author had (has?) (an) eating disorder(s) and participated in GBBO in their younger years. Also, the author is/was very active on Twitter and elsewhere and threw down during the height of the namecalling years. I don’t know if it helps answer my question, altho all that does confirm that the target audience is definitely Not Me.

Anyway. I then had a question. Is eating disorder + participating in GBBO a normal combination?

Let’s google!

Ruby Tandoh
Steph Blackwell
John Whaite

Also, there was a huge Thing involving Prue Leith, one of the judges, making comments that were regarded as potentially triggering of people with eating disorders. Further, there are some things out there in which people with a history of disordered eating got better by watching and baking along with GBBO and/or who celebrated their recovery by watching and baking along with GBBO.

I don’t know what to say? I mean, I tend not to watch … anything, but I _really_ tend not to watch cooking shows, because I just find the put it in the oven and immediately take out the pre-cooked one so impossible to deal with. (TikTok cooking does not bother me nearly as much, also, it is shorter.) Worse, baking nearly always has milk products in it, and substituting around the milk products in most baking recipes is a pointless exercise. I understand that GBBO has been showing whole grain recipes, so, yay to that?
‘

_The Bride Wore White_, Amanda Quick

It is always lovely to get a new book from JAK.

This is another Burning Cove. So much fun having everyone run around on the edges of the Hollywood scene during the interwar period. With Luther Pell, Raina and the Paradise club in the background, we get to know Jack Wingate, who is writing a book about profiling criminals by analyzing crime scenes and Prudence Ryland, aka Madame Ariadne, who interprets dreams. Ryland leaves her home after a new client shows up trying to kill her and after a brief period in Adelina Beach, arrives in Luther’s office looking for help figuring out who kidnapped her and some protection against whoever that might have been. Ryland moves into Wingate’s enormous house and they get to know each other and, in the process, they learn a lot about themselves as well.

Watching the Evil Rich Family implode was an absolute delight. I just can’t _even_ describe how much fun that was. So. Completely. Awesome.

Fans familiar with Arcane will recognize some references, but as is the case with a lot of her more recent work, it’s background that you don’t have to have to enjoy the story.