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
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
Inevitably, the world of 'communications' / PR / advertising / marketing is full of charlatans flogging snake oil. It is therefore very… — Dominic Cummings Advertising 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 Care 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… — Dominic Cummings Chaos 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… — Dominic Cummings Expertise 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… — Dominic Cummings Failure 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 Physics 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 Experience 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 Europe 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
