Principles as poetry, kind of.

So, I used a random number generator to choose five pages from Ray Dalio’s book version of “Principles” (due out in September). Then I picked out passages from each page, and turned them into poems.

Emphasis and formatting are the only things changed. It is not entirely clear why I thought this was a good idea.

Principles

21:

The Russians were buying lots of grain at the time

and wanted my advice,

so I took her on a combined honeymoon-business trip

to the USSR.

We arrived in Moscow on New Year’s Eve

and rode by bus from the drab airport

through a dusting of snow

448:

take time to reflect

on how the machine

has been working up till

now.

280:

95:

understand the likenesses and differences between them and form

an archetype of the typical shaper. I had followed that approach for

understanding everything;

324:

REMEMBER THAT MOST PEOPLE WILL PRETEND TO OPERATE IN YOUR INTEREST WHILE OPERATING IN THEIR OWN.

See also:
Jenny Holzer: Truisms — MoMA