The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
I make judgments about people and ideas individually - for me, parties are just a vehicle of convenience. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
I want people to understand the barriers to serious government in order that more people take action. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In healthcare like in government generally, people are incentivised to engage in wasteful/dangerous signalling to a terrifying degree - not rigorous thinking… — Dominic Cummings 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 Copy Share Image
I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average. — Dominic Cummings 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 Copy Share Image
One of the problems with the civil service is the way in which people are shuffled such that they either do not… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
People in politics tend to spend far too much time on higher profile issues affecting few people and too little time on… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
When comparing many things in life the difference between average and best is say 30% but some people are 50 times more… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
People are always selling the idea that they have a magic bullet of persuasion. You won't get poor by shorting such promises. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
If you go back to the Euro campaign in 1999, how many chief executives and chairmen of FTSE 100 companies were speaking… — 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
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. — Dominic Cummings 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
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 Copy Share Image
The reason why Whitehall is full of people failing in predictable ways on an hourly basis is because, first, there is general system-wide failure… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny. — Dominic Cummings 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 aligned to… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Physicists and mathematicians regularly invade other fields but other fields do not invade theirs so we can see which fields are hardest for very… — Dominic Cummings 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 predictions and… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
The panic over Sputnik brought many good things such as a huge increase in science funding. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In history books, luck is always underplayed and the talent of individuals is usually overplayed. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Changing the world in a profound and beneficial way is not enough to put a dint in bureaucracies which operate on their own dynamics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
I make judgments about people and ideas individually - for me, parties are just a vehicle of convenience. — Dominic Cummings 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 leverage. — Dominic Cummings 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 make mistakes… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
