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At Bridgewater Associates, one of the world's largest hedge funds, Ray Dalio is said to have created a punishing — and bizarre — working environment. ... Paul McDowell, tasked with designing ...

According to the book, Paul McDowell felt like the luckiest man alive after being hired by Dalio and leading the charge in implementing various internal rating systems geared toward the founder's "Principles" ideology. After 11 years at Bridgewater, he left in 2019 to work for a consultancy used by the firm.

The centerpiece of Dalio's attempt to run Bridgewater according to The Principles' doctrine of radical transparency was an internal software system, developed by Paul McDowell, that allowed employees to rate each other in real time on a variety of qualitative characteristics of which "believability" was the most important.