The audience for facts, evidence and research about microtargeting, Facebook and Brexit is tiny. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Action requires focus and priorities and these inherently require compromises and pragmatism. — Dominic Cummings Action Copy Share Image
Decentralised collaborations are inherently threatening to Whitehall's core principles. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Most claims you read about psychological manipulation are rubbish. — 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 Journalism 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 January 2014 I left the Department for Education and spent the next 18 months away from politics. — Dominic Cummings Education 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
One of the things I wanted to do in the Department for Education was open up the policy making process and run… — Dominic Cummings 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
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
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
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
Speed and adaptability are crucial to success in conflict and can be helped by new technologies. — Dominic Cummings Adaptability Copy Share Image
Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last. — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
MPs have no real knowledge of how to function other than via gimmick and briefings. — 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
Music is similar to sport. There is very fast feedback, learning, and a clear hierarchy of expertise. — 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
In a large bureaucracy, it is vital to keep eyes on the grassroots as they almost always will give you warning of… — Dominic Cummings Bureaucracy Copy Share Image
The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of… — Dominic Cummings Ideas Copy Share Image
Most political operations - and government - don't try to be rigorous about decision-making or force themselves to think about what they… — Dominic Cummings Confidence 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 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
Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook… — Dominic Cummings Book Copy Share Image
The E.U. has narrowed our horizons. It has narrowed everyone's horizons in Whitehall so they're not thinking about the big things in… — Dominic Cummings Copy Share Image
Fields make huge progress when they move from stories (e.g Icarus) and authority (e.g 'witch doctor') to evidence/experiment (e.g physics, wind tunnels)… — Dominic Cummings Design Copy Share Image
It is very very hard for humans to lift our eyes from today and to go out into the future and think… — Dominic Cummings Eyes Copy Share Image
Markets and science show that some fields of human endeavour work much better than political decision-making. I think we could do much… — 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 Government Copy Share Image
Regardless of political affiliation most of the policy/media world, as a subset of 'the educated classes' in general, tended to hold a… — Dominic Cummings Blank slate Copy Share Image
