by johnireland | The Book Shelf
The Book Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio is a guide to systematic decision-making, drawn from four decades of running one of the world’s largest hedge funds. It has sold over four million copies and remains one of the most influential business books of...
by johnireland | Articles
The Book in Brief Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio was first published in 2017 and has since sold over four million copies worldwide. Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, and the book distils the...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Long-term wealth preservation is rarely driven by intelligence alone. Charlie Munger’s philosophy centres on rational thinking, disciplined judgement and avoiding avoidable mistakes — principles that become increasingly important as wealth, business complexity and...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Long-term wealth preservation often depends less on intelligence and more on the quality of the mental frameworks used when making complex decisions. Most business owners spend years improving technical expertise while giving far less attention to the quality of their...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Cognitive biases distort decision-making in ways that directly impact wealth, risk, and long-term planning outcomes. Decisions rarely fail because of a lack of intelligence. They fail because of predictable patterns in how information is processed. Rolf Dobelli’s The...
