A review by extragravy
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

3.0

Ray Dalio and his team have put together a framework to measure where nations are in their life cycles; metrics for risks, strength, weaknesses, etc. that can help provide insight into national dynamics. He presents a useful framework and set of metrics that can guide and inform decisions and help gauge risk and potential upcoming changes. In all these ways it was a 4 or 5 star effort - he achieved what he set out to do. I rated this 3 stars though, because I won't read it again (although I will look at updates to his published PDF with national status metrics and commentary which is great), and I only feel moderately enabled to measure my risk and inform my decisions using his tools.

My favorite part is listening to him work through and solve problems, I'll likely read his next book just to spend some more time with him.