Most of The Fund doesn’t feel like a book about finance. Instead, it is about how a man of surpassing mediocrity used money to control and humiliate, and how much people abased themselves for it. Which, come to think of it, makes it one of the better books ever written about Wall Street.
A book that blends Dalio’s biography and Bridgewater’s history into a closely observed investigation of how the Principles worked in practice ... The portrait he paints of Dalio does not depart dramatically from what the hedge-funder has readily revealed about himself.
