There was the time when the parking staff was fired for designing parking passes deemed too big. When Dalio noticed a spill on the floor by his urinal, Copeland writes, he summoned a deputy to investigate. But for the most part, it has always been safer to be a lower-level drone than in Dalio’s direct orbit. Paul McDowell, tasked with designing the “Principles Operating System,” Copeland writes, “assigned an underling to go into the software and program a new rule. As the original, topmost believable person at Bridgewater, Dalio’s rating was now numerically bulletproof to negative feedback.

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Persons: Dalio, Copeland, James Comey, Dalio’s browbeating, Paul McDowell, ” Copeland, “ Locations: Bridgewater