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60degreesn's review against another edition
4.0
Was reading this book as the same time as "The House of Government Book" by Yuri Slezkine, which is about the Bolsheviks and the Russian revolution (and interprets them as a apocalyptic religious millennial movement). I was surprised at the number of parallels between the story of Bridgewater and the Bolshevik leadership of the USSR, even before the part of the book where Ray Dalio established a Politburo within Bridgewater.
maxstone98's review against another edition
2.0
Not worth reading.
The excerpt in The NY Times gives an impression of some of it (fairly inaccurate seeming) being about the investing but it is not, there is almost exactly zero on that topic.
Basically it is 300 pages of : Ray Dalio is a bad person and mean and a hypocrite (because he won’t accept negative feedback himself). With a side dose of: Greg Jensen is slimy.
Obvious who the sources are since they are portrayed very positively. No sense that this is in any way a balanced book. I don’t particularly want to defend Bridgewater or dalio or jensen (in fact I would actively not like to do so and don’t mean for this short book review to do so); I have no idea of the facts. But I also don’t think this book seems like a good place to go to get any facts.
The excerpt in The NY Times gives an impression of some of it (fairly inaccurate seeming) being about the investing but it is not, there is almost exactly zero on that topic.
Basically it is 300 pages of : Ray Dalio is a bad person and mean and a hypocrite (because he won’t accept negative feedback himself). With a side dose of: Greg Jensen is slimy.
Obvious who the sources are since they are portrayed very positively. No sense that this is in any way a balanced book. I don’t particularly want to defend Bridgewater or dalio or jensen (in fact I would actively not like to do so and don’t mean for this short book review to do so); I have no idea of the facts. But I also don’t think this book seems like a good place to go to get any facts.
cheruphim's review against another edition
dark
informative
reflective
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual content and Sexual harassment
loupgaroujefe's review against another edition
funny
fast-paced
4.25
Great look at a bizarre cult like organization and a terrifying look at how a cult of personality and an obsession with wealth led people to lose their way.
nadia's review
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Ray Dalio's Principles was recommended to me about a decade ago and I only finally started reading it 6 months ago after finding a nice hardback edition in the bookstore. And I'm still reading it mainly because I've been taking notes...
...and well, when I saw that this book existed — I think I may have gasped when I saw it online — I had to check it out. 😅
There were a few things I had been sceptical about in Principles and it was interesting and validating to see just how right I was in certain cases.
Both (very) surprised and not surprised about what's detailed in this book. There were several intriguing and tense "behind-the-scenes at Bridgewater" stories and the audiobook narration was very good. Copeland himself did a great job of making you remember who each person was as the story progressed, which is great as losing track of who's who is often a point of difficulty in books like these.
I'm still going to finish Principles, but with an even bigger grain of salt than the one I had cultivated on my own. 😅
...and well, when I saw that this book existed — I think I may have gasped when I saw it online — I had to check it out. 😅
There were a few things I had been sceptical about in Principles and it was interesting and validating to see just how right I was in certain cases.
Both (very) surprised and not surprised about what's detailed in this book. There were several intriguing and tense "behind-the-scenes at Bridgewater" stories and the audiobook narration was very good. Copeland himself did a great job of making you remember who each person was as the story progressed, which is great as losing track of who's who is often a point of difficulty in books like these.
I'm still going to finish Principles, but with an even bigger grain of salt than the one I had cultivated on my own. 😅
xoxojillzian's review
dark
informative
slow-paced
3.0
a huge flaw of this book is trying to get me to empathize with millionaires and billionaires being treated badly by a billionaire cult leader; needs a shady youtube doc treatment. I don’t feel bad at all for anyone at Bridgewater. They could have just gotten another job lmao Also WE NEED TO SEE THESE HR TAPES STAT.
greg_fox's review against another edition
4.0
This is so much better (read: weirder) than you could've ever imagined. You KNOW there will be a movie. There's a measure of surrealism reading this in the same year as, "Trust" by Hernan Diaz.