If youre thinking of doing a startup or just curious about how to do hard things you should read. Interesting how some fields (e.g airlines, surgery) have significantly improved performance while others have not, and the barriers to improvement. Partly accessible to a non-specialist with some maths already, though very challenging for most including me. Reading List - Dominic Cummings substack Reading List Dominic Cummings Jun 26, 2022 79 127 As long promised (sorry! He understood politics and government in a way I think almost nobody in 20th Century politics did and influenced it more than almost any elected leader. (I spent ~2 years reading a lot of books on this ~2005-15. A history of the amazing Bell Labs which famously won more Nobels than most EU countries. Will. Brexit and VL in No10 (original official advice was to go with the useless bureaucratic EU scheme. While some lessons are specific to time/place (e.g how the Senate works in 1950) the most important lessons from all such books are quite abstract and common and I assume this will be true of these classics. Steve has a startup that is a leading player in this emerging field. (NB. Mathematics: Its content, methods and meaning, Kolmogorov et al. (I used this to argue for checklists and transparency over the repeated failures of social services with child abuse when in the Department for Education 2011-14. (This series was written for the Russian correspondence school a way of giving talented maths pupils a useful curriculum in such a vast country. In general Colin Grays work. This is the Newton biography and its brilliantly done with intense love and care for its extraordinary subject. Many who used them went on to the famous Kolmogorov schools.). , Gertner. was the fundamental reason I think Brexit is the right idea and the EU is doomed to fail in important ways. Posted January 13, 2014 . Ive written a few things about his work. Just in Time, John Hoskyns. I'm thinking re 'What should Labour do to win the next election'. The director was evacuated from the horror of Stalingrad as a child: The city was ablaze up to the top of the sky. Sept. 7, 2019 Dominic Cummings, special adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson of . Functions and Graphs, Gelfand and Glagoleva. Governments find it very, very hard to fund such ventures. A good biography of Einstein by Isaacson. Thames Valley Police have confirmed that her corpse was discovered on Friday, April 21, just before midnight. , Robert Caro. We can now test fertilised eggs for common risk factors such as mental disorders and heart attacks and. Please use comments below for reading suggestions, not general Q&A. And a very recent post. I think hes right that most academics assume models for how this works that are clearly not how people really think under pressure. Theres no question about this. His Art of Doing Science and Engineering is considered a classic but Ive not read. , Gustave le Bon. E.g rapidly speeding up construction/housing/infrastructure, how to accelerate scientific discovery and technological development. dominiccummings.substack.com. Warning, its an accurate portrayal of atrocities on the Eastern Front therefore truly horrific. (Politicians also constantly make this mistake in hiring journalists to do communication, almost always a bad idea.). (3 volumes), Morris Kline. One must not be squeamish about admitting this (Strauss). I think hes right that most academics assume models for how this works that are clearly not how people really think under pressure. Whenever and. are classics about the presentation of information by the worlds leading expert. If interested in how a government could take seriously accelerating progress, follow these debates. A scholarly history of maths, not for a general reader. If youre in Georgia, visit her house in Milledgeville. which egg to use for IVF. The cynicism/realism remains shocking. Alls Fair, Carville & Matalin. Re George Mueller, the man who managed the Apollo program. . The replication disaster means you have to be careful about what you believe but its still a good book. A Boyd ally wrote about his time in the Pentagon dealing with the extreme nightmare of procurement. ), genetics, expert judgement, finance and many other topics with the focus on how education policy has to cope in order to train problem solvers for the coming challenges. If we could predict events like the fall of the Berlin Wall better it would have huge value. Will live players use the next five months to build build build or waste the most important element in conflict, time, and let non-player characters stumble into a set of critical decisions in November? People who havent studied it often mock Fukuyamas. I wrote this blog which has a further reading list. is considered a classic but Ive not read. I was amazed and desperate. Youll understand more of how SW1 really works than from all PM memoirs of the last 30 years combined (PMs never face why they dont control much of Whitehall even after theyve gone). Also see Nietzsche on the pre-Socratics. The smartest person Einstein said he knew wrote one of the first things on existential risk. SW1 suffers such extremely powerful wilful blindness even an event as big as covid doesnt puncture consciousness in many important ways. People who climb to the top of the science system tend to defend the system rather than support change, even when they realise how bad it is. Now, perhaps, they have some idea of what that. ): how much was the effectiveness bound up with the dangerousness the failure of alignment and/or the inherent drive of high intelligence to escape constraints/control/alignment with others goals? Steve has a startup that is a leading player in this emerging field. He understood politics and government in a way I think almost nobody in 20th Century politics did and influenced it more than almost any elected leader. A history of ARPA-IPTO and Xerox PARC: how the internet and PC revolution was created. Keynes essay on Newton is great: , the core document of the rationalist movement. The story of Turing, von Neumann and the computer. It is, therefore, practically unknown in SW1. (A great highlight of Oxford for me was four-hour tutorials with RLF on Athenian democracy, Thucydides, Alexander etc.). Groves (fired), Bob Taylor (fired), George Mueller (not funded to push on to Mars after the moon), Renoir The list goes on and on. Genres Politics He did not try to influence todays arguments but instead tried to prepare the future, an approach of great power partly because, as Monnet said, theres almost no competition. Dominic Cummings Jul 15, 2021 39 66 Last week I wrote re: Why I went to No10 in summer 2019. A mathematicians apology, Hardy. Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Rumelt. A lot of Boyd (including getting inside your enemys OODA loop) is interpreting Sun Tzu after 2,000 years of case studies proving him right plus some modern ideas. On War, Clausewitz. Dominic Cummings's Odyssean reading list might make you smarter. For example: , Andy Grove, ex-founder/CEO of Intel. You often read versions of those really at the edge of this research do not predict fast timetables. Youll see its very similar to Grovess principles (above). Vast amounts of what you read on this is rubbish. On digital fabrication. Introduction to the Theory of Computation, Sipser (2005 edition). Kahneman bravely admitted hed ignored some of his own lessons in believing studies he shouldnt have believed. Ill do a separate list on science funding. If interested in how a government could take seriously, , follow these debates. is extraordinary, e.g his secret search for the truth about Leibniz. His book 'Causality' is the leading textbook in the field. But the storyteller makes this picture incredibly beautiful. ), , Waldrop. Popular intro to network theory. But the storyteller makes this picture incredibly beautiful. . How Roger Ailes packaged Nixon with actual campaign memos reproduced at the back. Classic text, university level. (Steinbergs recent book has interesting stuff but has many errors of fact/date and interpretation.) Posted January 13, 2014 Source: Pexels There's a lot of hope today that playing mindless brain training games will make you. My wild Westminster Dubbed 'The Gazelle' by the press, she was a trusted aide who babysat Boris, chauffeured Dominic Cummings and chaperoned Carrie Johnson when the PM was ill. As a new television drama depicts Downing Street during the pandemic, Cleo Watson describes her whirlwind year at No 10 Dress to thrill Feeling gilty? A short companion book to his famous lecture series, Tips on Physics: a problem-solving supplement, which was unpublished for many years and seems to be generally unknown, is super-useful. *Renoir La Grande Illusion; La Regle de Jeu (Renoir said of the rage about the film, shot in 1938 between Munich and war, that hed showed a society in the process of disintegration, so that they [the characters] were defeated at the onset the audience recognized this. Also. by Rumelt. It was a direct inspiration for my terrorist demand to Boris, July 2019: we must create an ARPA. Man-Computer Symbiosis, Licklider, 1960 and The Computer as a Communication Device, Bob Taylor, 1968. Elite polarisation, Cicero & fishponds. de Tocqueville. (I used this to argue for checklists and transparency over the repeated failures of social services with child abuse when in the Department for Education 2011-14. I blogged a series on this great book starting here; if you only read one of these blogs make it this one on the most important issue, great people (NB. This excellent short book introduces quantum mechanics using A Level maths. If you want to follow the cutting edge of this research follow, , which you should anyway. The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith. Its crucial to remember both aspects of this genius-monster without whom probably no World War I, Lenin, Hitler etc summed up by Salisburys two comments: One misses the extraordinary penetration of the old man and he will do things of which it would be absurd to suspect any other statesman in Europe. While some characters from the ancient world, such as Themistocles or Alexander the Great, would be as interesting to study in minute detail we dont have the sources. Dominic Cummings Judea Pearl is one of the most important scholars in the field of causal reasoning. David wrote some of the breakthrough papers on quantum computers. , Murray Gell Mann. Number, Dantzig (1930, updated 1953; new edition 2007). Also you cant understand our world unless you have a sense of Nietzsches profound influence on 20th Century artists, thinkers, and politics. , Klein. E.g Around 1848 nationalism was an elite opinion held by educated liberals who thought of liberalism and nationalism as naturally, and morally, connected, while uneducated peasants were less nationalistic. Almost the only good business book I have read on strategy. , Leonard Susskind (2013). An inspiration for changes to maths teaching I pushed in 2011-14, including trying to get a maths for Presidents course going. . (Some confusion about his ideas is a result of his sister who, a Nazi supporter and edited things he wrote to distort his actual views. The Misbehaviour of Financial Markets, Mandelbrot. Jean Monnet created the ECSC and EEC/EU. I googled recently after getting no reply to an email and learned to my dismay that he died of cancer last year. If youre in Georgia, visit her house in Milledgeville. Review of the disintegration of the Tories in the context of Brexit, SW1 vs, perspectives on risks of Brexit/Remain, and, and save the trolley to Get Brexit Done despite our reservations. The philosophising Tolstoy fought against the picture of an infinitely complex system in which most thoughts and actions fade to zero significance quickly but a few connect to others with highly non-linear effects. I started reading him around 1999 when I first got involved in politics. Also the club of those who write about UK politics a) are rarely interested in how power really works, b) are almost, interested in management, how to get hard things done, or how organisations work, c) think theyre an expert on communication but are not a general problem for hacks who confuse understanding journalism with understanding communication. Dyson, Hawking) is wrong. My essay on an 'Odyssean' Education - Dominic Cummings's Blog My essay on an 'Odyssean' Education On the evening of Friday 11 October 2013, the Guardian published a draft essay of mine - ' Some thoughts on education and political priorities ' (links here and here ). ), Modern works on war / strategy (NB. Great DVD documentary too. I enjoyed/learned from Isaacsons biography of Steve Jobs. I googled recently after getting no reply to an email and learned to my dismay that he died of cancer last year. The critical meta-lesson is the same for all the below: Grovess last personnel report concluded that his effectiveness is unfortunately lessened somewhat by the fact that he often irritates his associates, but he has extraordinary capacity to get things done. Then he was effectively fired. Hes a very unusual thinker and much more right much more often than just about anybody, partly because of how he thinks. Plato. His point about the fundamental importance of error-correction in political institutions was the fundamental reason I think Brexit is the right idea and the EU is doomed to fail in important ways. Jean Monnet created the ECSC and EEC/EU. Why? W hen Dominic Cummings arrived in Downing Street, some of his new colleagues were puzzled by one of his mantras: "Get Brexit done, then Arpa". E.g Around 1848 nationalism was an elite opinion held by educated liberals who thought of liberalism and nationalism as naturally, and morally, connected, while uneducated peasants were, nationalistic. Los Alamos was crucial but it was part of a much vaster infrastructure of engineering projects, intelligence, planning and so on. (Dostoyevsky was Nietzsches favourite novellist!). Welles dismissed the French auteur theory as not relevant to the old Hollywood where the producers called the shots, not the directors. The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver. The difficulty comes from the fact its psychologically very hard to stick to and almost all bureaucracies operate with incentives and culture that push in opposite directions. Quotes. It also corrects a lot of modern books that have reverted to the World War I was a terrible accident / railway timetables idea in fact crucial nodes in the Prussian deep state network were trying to force war in summer 1914 and to manipulate Wilhelm II into going along with their plans. Also cf. Am told that the Loebs translated by Shackleton Bailey is the best translation. So a philosopher simultaneously prepared the ground for Hitler, deeply influenced todays Left, and personally hated Bismarck and anti-semites. Vernon Smith, economics Nobel-winner, argues that TOMS provides a better basis for economic models and prediction than modern neoclassical economics. The Substack blog he started in June last year is not cheap - 10 a month for an erratic and irregular output via email - but it's worth it. . (Also note that the oversight for Groves was a group of just four who met with no secretariat and no formal records.) Also cf. Rosen on military innovation, very relevant to discussions on things like drones and AI in Ukraine. Who is Dominic Cummings? If you read his blogs and trusted him on covid over the entire CDC/FDA/WHO bureaucracies, youd have come out far ahead. Those who think very fast timetables are plausible do not talk about it publicly because (partly) they worry about the effects of their comments. Steve Jobs advised Obama to do the same but it didnt happen. It is, therefore, practically unknown in SW1. , Paret et al. I was amazed and desperate. Reckoning With Risk, Gigerenzer.
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