Alex

I didn't like it. For the most part it's a very generic adventure book, admittedly written by Ishiguro's very beautiful language.
I got the overarching idea but the book is very boring and it's even worse when you get through it and realize that all this boring stuff was for nothing - the plot easily could be 10 times shorter without losing anything.
I actually just read a review in The New Yorker, it has a short plot description there and I liked the review more than the book.
I absolutely do not recommend reading it.

Chapter about game theory and mechanism design is just awesome. Everything else is cool, but I found hard to keep reading through some parts.

This is beautifully written book and joy to listen.
I read it couple of times when I was a kid and honestly remembered only horror parts of the book, probably because Palo Alto and Cupertino was no more real to me than Narnia back then. But now I actually found horror part a little boring (apart from T-Rex), but absolutely loved sci fi and dystopian view on science as appendage of capitalism.

Book is great and worth reading. I liked idea of principles and life story of Ray Dalio is interesting. Work principles are very “corporaty” and maybe because I do not plan to manage my own company I didn't like it.
I took one star because of some strong Ayn Rand vibes: mighty titans from Bridgewater holding the sky while the rest crawling below. I should mention that by Bridgewater standards I'm deeply flawed and unsuccessful person and as Ray Dalio predicted understanding this generated “fight or flight” reflex in me - not sure what to do about that.
Also, Ray Dalio obviously has some grudge against Mark Zuckerberg - he mentioned every successful CEO, but not him even though Zuckerberg is at the top by author's own principles.

There are interesting tidbits here and there, some mildly thought-provoking correlations but 95% is so insanely boring and absolutely useless - we already kinda guessed that there is an inequality in the world.
Add a pinch of utopism and neo-liberal propaganda (though I have to admit it probably felt differently in 2012) and you have Capital in the XXI century (nothing in common with Das Kapital).
Also, Piketty achieved impossible, he wrote a book in large part about the XX century and didn't mention Hitler or Nazis once.
Very skippable book IMO.