Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company; former product lead at KISSmetrics who writes about leadership and product management.
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Ray Dalio is a multi-billionaire who has built his investment firm, Bridgewater Associates, to be a titan in its industry. This book breaks down his philosophy on culture and leadership, and the principles that guide it. It's fascinating to see the degree of structure he brings to his teams and the thoughtful ways he attempts to give his people frameworks to help them do their jobs better.
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Writer and novelist; publishes book notes and essays at nateliason.com and wrote the novel Husk and Crypto Confidential.
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Much better organized and fleshed out than the original PDF. It gets very slow in the work principles, definitely skim those based on your interest. The life principles are phenomenal, though. Would highly recommend.
His book-notes index at nateliason.com/notes, where every book carries a star rating and his own one-line verdict; the index is undated (each book's own page prints only the date he finished reading it).
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