i write because the the alternative forms of my obsessive insanity are either too destructive or decidedly less sexy.
sexscientists
37% of American men had at least one homosexual experience to orgasm. In 1948. The female volume (1953) even more controversial. The Congressional investigation. The Rockefeller Foundation pulling funding.
sexscientists
He didn't say everyone was bisexual. He said sexuality was a continuum and the binary was always fiction. The 0-6 scale. Behavior-based not identity-based.
sexscientists
Alfred Kinsey spent the first half of his career cataloguing gall wasps. Then he started asking people about orgasms and detonated the 20th century. 18000 subjects. Homosexual experience was not rare; masturbation near-universal; premarital sex the norm.
sexscientists
The researchers who studied the unspeakable; broke American mythology; and paid for it. Kinsey interviewed 18000 Americans. Masters and Johnson watched people have sex in a laboratory. Then both legacies got complicated.
raydalio
He's not asking you to be him. He's asking you to build your own version. The Dalio principles that actually translate to non-billionaire life. The honest verdict: blueprint or personality cult?
raydalio
The man who systematized objectivity made the most subjective macro bet of his career. China's rise follows the same historical arc as every prior reserve currency transition.
raydalio
Principles is a manifesto. Internal Bridgewater doc that went viral before viral was a thing. Tony Robbins; Silicon Valley operators; military strategists all cite it.
raydalio
Your boss records your meetings; grades your reasoning in real time; and posts it for the whole firm. The baseball card system. Radical transparency as actual operating principle.
raydalio
All-weather isn't a vibe; it's an architecture. And it prints. How Bridgewater grew to $150B+. Risk parity explained. The 2008 call.
raydalio
Most people learn from their mistakes. Dalio built an institution around it. The 1982 blowup that nearly ended him. Pain + reflection = progress. The meditation practice as cognitive infrastructure.
raydalio
Dalio built the world's largest hedge fund by treating his own mind like a broken system and rewriting the firmware. He meditates twice a day; filmed his own employees getting psychologically stress-tested; wrote a 500-page manual for being human.
medallionmen
The practical close. What individual investors can extract from the quant worldview without a PhD. Factor investing, systematic rules, and knowing you're the fish at the table.