Principles: Summary

I'm not getting many critics on the reviews. Yes, you can disagree with many things he says, you can find them not really news. The point is that he's just sharing his point of view from his experience. It's not a magic potion but just an opinion of a very smart individual, it's up to you to absorb it in the best way possible.
I've personally found it very interesting, Mr. Dalio gives very interesting opinions and thoughts about organisational behaviour, macro-economics, and ethics, definitely worth reading!

Could have been way better, unfortunately most of the principles talked about in this book aren't really tremendous. Moreover, there was quite a lack of work into making this book adequately publishable as most of the text looked like an internal HR memo more than a real book. Some thoughts were interesting, but not really enough to justify the time it took to read.

I think this might be the best book I've read in all of 2017. Lots of practical thoughts on life and how those apply to work. So many good takeaways that I don't even know where to start in implementing. I think this could easily be a book that I go through several times, and focus on pieces of it at a time.

Also fantastic advice for running a business. And it was cool to see how all those things were based on how we should live our lives.

I've read only half of the book. It contains several useful ideas. But there is so much boring and common sense stuff, that it's hard to push through. The first part about author's life is meh. The second part about life principles is ok. I've decided to skip the last part about work principles, as it's mostly not applicable to my current life. Maybe I'm just not the target audience for the book, which is I guess higher management and owners of large companies.