Imagine managing over 100 billion in capital, the way Ray does… The way that must feel. One must truly be a master of themselves not to feel like you are being crushed by a ton of pressure. I can see that gathering all the inputs, scoring them and feeding them into a machine to make the decision, takes away the pressure of doing so yourself. You just have to make sure that you’ve done all the diligence in feeding in accurate inputs. This is something Ray is a master of: breaking the end result into components, then reverse engineering the components, and providing a solution by tweaking the components. That’s how he was able to help McDonalds bring the McNugget to market — by teaching them to use futures contracts to lock down the price of cornmeal and chicken feed. I have a 10-min summary of Ray’s “Principles” on my wall.