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Month: December 2018

How the Best Ideas Win: The Story of Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates

How the Best Ideas Win: The Story of Ray Dalio and Bridgewater Associates

The Idea Meritocracy Imagine that you are the CEO of the largest hedge fund in the world, a hedge fund that has produced more net gains than any other firm in history. Now imagine that, after an important meeting, you receive this email from a subordinate, CC’ed to other senior people: … you deserve a “D-” for your performance today in the ABC meeting […] This was especially disappointing for two reasons: 1) You have been great in previous meetings…

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Fishing for Love

Fishing for Love

Romantic love. Obsessive love. Passionate love. Infatuation. Call it what you will, men and women of every era and every culture have been ‘bewitched, bothered, and bewildered’ by this irresistible power. Being in love is universal to humanity; it is part of human nature – Helen Fisher Love, or the kind of love associated with romance, is a fundamental human drive. Or so Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist who has spent her academic career exploring this topic, proposes. She further…

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