I know from my nightclub days that when local cops need to show a fall in crime for political reasons there are… — Dominic Cummings Crime Copy Share Image
The biggest problem for governments with new technologies is that the limiting factor on applying new technologies is not the technology but… — Dominic Cummings Change 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 Civil service 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… — Dominic Cummings Bureaucracies 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
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
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
Forecasts have been fundamental to mankind's journey from a small tribe on the African savannah to a species that can sling objects… — 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… — Dominic Cummings Failure Copy Share Image
As I've said many times, Vote Leave could only win because the Establishment's OODA loops are broken - as the Brexit negotiations… — 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 Government Copy Share Image
Vote Leave argued during the referendum that a Leave victory should deliver the huge changes that the public wanted and the U.K.… — Dominic Cummings Europe 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
Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works - never mind the… — Dominic Cummings Communication Copy Share Image
I think the right way to deal with terrorism is to carry on with normal life, like Britain used to when it… — Dominic Cummings Country 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
Political analysis is full of chess metaphors, reflecting an old tradition of seeing games as models of physical and social reality. — Dominic Cummings Chess 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 Education Copy Share Image
