Natalie's Reviews > The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend

This was so fucking funny because it was just so absurd. I know you shouldn’t do this, but the people in this felt almost dehumanized (like they were just fictional characters) because the whole story was imagined in my head as a live action / anime series I would love to watch. Which! Shouldn’t be seen as a minimization of the suffering, because it genuinely seems traumatic to work at that company. Imagine my shock when I picked this book up with 0 knowledge of what the expose was about, any known issues of bridge water, I picked it up with some amusement and curiosity and having read 100 or so pages of principles at the end of college (I still have the book). And then I kept thinking about this one guy in my grad school program that had worked there and wondered about his experience.

I give this 5 stars because of the insane amounts of research it must have taken to put this together, and bravery of his sources (though it’s hard to feel sympathetic for many of the “main characters” knowing how complicit, beyond complicit, so many of them were in the abuse of others + the gobsmacking $$$ they were paid for it.) I will say that pacing and structure and word efficiency isn’t the best; it’s a lot of the same events to different people at different times over and over, but it was an entertaining enough infodump and testament to his investigation that I allow it. All the gory details. The one star raters of this book and Dalio defenders must be psycho / socia / whatever is the right PC term these days.

Just pure lunacy, wow. Like a thought experiment come to life. Even the names of things were comically dystopic, I made a whole list of the most ridiculous ones, like “Dot Collectors” and “Overseers”. And the tape names?? And constant cameras?? And the hiring of a fed prosecutor who interrogated terrorists, to now conduct interrogations and investigations of employees for the most minor shit (like talking behind someone’s back)?? How is this real and not an experiment???

Also minor note but I read this in a combo of audiobook and ebook and it was a nice system! Just a happy coincidence I was able to check both out at the library. I may try to replicate this method with other books in the future.

This is def up there for my fav expose books (super pumped, and maybe the theranos one?), while falls short in style it takes the cake in jaw dropping