Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
TV news dominates politics and is extremely low-bandwidth: it contains a few hundred words and rarely uses graphics properly. — Dominic Cummings 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 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
In many aspects of government, as in the tech world and investing, brains and temperament smash experience and seniority out of the… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Project management is not hard in the same way that theoretical physics is hard - there are tried and trusted methods that… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
I know from my days working on education reform in government that it's almost impossible to exaggerate how little those who work… — 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
