Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies. — Dominic Cummings Adaptability Copy Share Image
Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields. — Dominic Cummings Change Copy Share Image
In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics. — Dominic Cummings Education Copy Share Image
MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
After 23 June 2016, the U.K. has to reorient national policy on many dimensions. — Dominic Cummings Dimensions Copy Share Image
Music is similar to sport. There is very fast feedback, learning, and a clear hierarchy of expertise. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Most security failings happen because of human actions that are not envisaged when designing systems. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In the political world, big established failing systems control the rules, suck in more and more resources rather than go bust, make… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don't care about the NHS. And the public has kind of… — Dominic Cummings Care Copy Share Image
Inevitably, the world of 'communications' / PR / advertising / marketing is full of charlatans flogging snake oil. It is therefore very… — Dominic Cummings Advertising Copy Share Image
Fundamental to real expertise is 1: whether the informational structure of the environment is sufficiently regular that it's possible to make good… — Dominic Cummings Expertise Copy Share Image
Technology enables people to improve communication with unprecedented speed, scale and iterative testing. It also allows people to wreak chaos with high… — Dominic Cummings Chaos Copy Share Image
In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the… — Dominic Cummings Experience Copy Share Image
The Single Market is no-where defined in the E.U. treaties. If you suddenly ask people to define the Single Market, the number… — Dominic Cummings Europe Copy Share Image
In physics we have developed models that are extremely accurate across vastly different scales from the sub-atomic to the visible universe. In… — Dominic Cummings Physics Copy Share Image
In many areas, the E.U. regulates to help the worst sort of giant corporate looters defending their position against entrepreneurs. Post-Brexit Britain… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Those of us from the Vote Leave team would never have gone to No10 to help if Boris hadn't told us that… — Dominic Cummings Change Copy Share Image
Britain could contribute huge value to the world by leveraging existing assets, including scientific talent and how the NHS is structured, to… — Dominic Cummings America Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem the Conservative Party has had since 1997 at least is that it is seen as 'the party of the… — Dominic Cummings Conservative Copy Share Image
Unprecedented in modern British history and outside all normal civil service rules, a bunch of MPs, some of them working with foreign… — Dominic Cummings British Copy Share Image
If you think of politics as 'serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,' which is the default mode of most… — Dominic Cummings Educated people Copy Share Image
Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If you look back at history, most important PR and propaganda was invented by the Communist Party. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. — Dominic Cummings Brilliant Copy Share Image
Decentralised collaborations are inherently threatening to Whitehall's core principles. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism. — Dominic Cummings Action Copy Share Image
If you want to avoid the usual fate in politics of failure, you need to understand some basic principles about why people… — Dominic Cummings Failure Copy Share Image
People are always asking 'how could the politicians let X happen with Y?' where Y is something important. People find it hard… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If you want to make big improvements in communication, my advice is - hire physicists, not communications people from normal companies and… — Dominic Cummings Advice Copy Share Image
Every failing organisation has the same stories, people find it very hard to learn from the most successful organisations and people. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
All the best companies quickly go downhill after the departure of people like Bill Gates - even when such very able people… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Eitan Hersh wrote a book in 2015 called 'Hacking the Electorate.' It's pretty much the best book I've seen on the use… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
MPs are so cowed by the institutions and the scale of official failure that they generally just muddle along tinkering and hope… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Abstracting human wisdom into models often works better than relying on human experts as models are often more consistent and less noisy. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot… — Dominic Cummings Bottlenecks Copy Share Image
In the commercial world, big companies mostly die within a few decades because they cannot maintain an internal system to keep them… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Discussion of politics and government almost totally ignores the concept of training people to update their opinions in response to new evidence… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Politics does the equivalent of constantly trying to reinvent children's arithmetic and botching it. It does not build reliable foundations of knowledge. — Dominic Cummings Children Copy Share Image
