MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
In January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Almost all analysis of politics and government considers relatively surface phenomena. — 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
Priorities are fundamental to politics because of inevitable information bottlenecks: these bottlenecks can be transformed by rare good organisation but they cannot… — 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 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
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
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
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans. — Dominic Cummings 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 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
