⭐⭐⭐ Principles by Dalio
| Full Title | Principles: Life and Work |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ray Dalio, Jeremy Bobb |
| Year Published | 2017 |
| Date Read | October 05, 2018 |
| Rating | 3/5 stars |
Stopped after reading 1/2 of both part I and part II.
I didn’t like the structure of the book. The biographical part is too long and contains many mentions to specifics of Dalio’s investing past that I was personally totally uninterested in. The principles part has some reasonable ideas but after listening to a handful, it just starts becoming a list of platitudes without much insight, similar to how some “values” statements are at corporations.
One that I did enjoy is “look to nature to learn how reality works” - the idea there was legitimately unique and Dalio did a good job of explaining why it makes sense to him. That said, it wasn’t enough to get me to read the rest of the book.