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Ray Dalio

Ray Dalio is a billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder of investment firm Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds.

He is the author of the famous book:Principles: Life and Work and has recommended a lot of books about Human Brain, Creativity, History Finance, Work, etc.

Sources: this list has been compiled from the recommendations that he shared with CNBC and some of the books he mentions in his latest book: Principles

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A Magic Web

Christian Ziegler

Ray Dalio

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Mark Zuckerberg

Naval Ravikant

First Round Capital

Barack Obama

Keith Rabois

Patrick Collison

Daniel Ek

Ashton Kutcher

Bill Gates

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Non Fiction

Endurance

Alfred Lansing

Non Fiction

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Farnam Street

Reddit

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

Non Fiction

The Evolving Self

Robert Kegan

Psychology

Also recommended by

Kevin Systrom

Naval Ravikant

The Lessons of History

Will Durant

History

"These fabulous historians who wrote thousands of pages of history distilled it down into these 104 pages"

Also recommended by

Indra Nooyi

Marc Andreessen

Evan Williams

Hacker News

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Barack Obama

Designer News

UXTools

Satya Nadella

Dustin Moskovitz

Bill Gates

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Non Fiction

Also recommended by

Hacker News

Patrick Collison

Austen Allred

UXTools

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Biography

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Elon Musk

Charlie Munger

Austen Allred

Sam Altman

Einstein

Walter Isaacson

Biography

The Serengeti Rules

Sean B. Carroll

Science

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Hacker News

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Non Fiction

Subliminal

Leonard Mlodinow

Psychology

Incognito

David Eagleman

Non Fiction

An Everyone Culture

Robert Kegan

Business

The Role of the Individual in History

Georgi Plekhanov

History

Also recommended by

Farnam Street

Austen Allred

Benjamin Franklin

Walter Isaacson

Biography

The Undoing Project

Michael Lewis

Non Fiction

Who's in Charge

Michael S. Gazzaniga

Science

Originals

Adam M. Grant

Non Fiction

Also recommended by

Farnam Street

River Out of Eden

Richard Dawkins

Science

"Our brains have programming that is older than mankind. So to understand the laws of nature, which we’re all subject to, I’d recommend this book."

Why We Believe in God

J. Anderson Thomson

Science

A Whole New Mind

Daniel H. Pink

Non Fiction

Learn or Die

Edward D. Hess

Business

Discovering Your Personality Type

Don Richard Riso

Psychology

My Stroke of Insight

Jill Bolte Taylor

Non Fiction

The Meaning of Human Existence

Edward O. Wilson

Science

From Bacteria to Bach and Back

Daniel C. Dennett

Philosophy

Creativity and the Brain

Mario Tokoro

Ray Dalio

Welcome to Your Brain

Sandra Aamodt

Non Fiction

Leadership the Outward Bound Way

Jimmy Carter

Ray Dalio

Einstein's Mistakes

Hans C. Ohanian

Science

The Gift of Adversity

Norman E. Rosenthal

Non Fiction

Super Mind

Norman E. Rosenthal

Psychology

"Meditation is 'very powerful'. It gave me an equilibrium that really helped me.”

The Upside of Inequality

Edward Conard

Economics

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