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A review by amyhuang
Principles: Summary by Ray Dalio
3.0
DNF at 75% (last 25% is mostly reference material).
There were some useful tactical pieces here, including around what makes people believable and how to recognize when conversations veer "below the line." As a primer on how to be effective, it's good enough I considered buying it in print. But it frequently read like yet another hagiography of Steve Jobs/Elon Musk (with Dalio insisting, "not trying to compare myself to them, but here are all the ways I'm like them"), and Dalio himself comes off as kind of an asshole, so... mixed feelings.
There were some useful tactical pieces here, including around what makes people believable and how to recognize when conversations veer "below the line." As a primer on how to be effective, it's good enough I considered buying it in print. But it frequently read like yet another hagiography of Steve Jobs/Elon Musk (with Dalio insisting, "not trying to compare myself to them, but here are all the ways I'm like them"), and Dalio himself comes off as kind of an asshole, so... mixed feelings.