A history of ARPA-IPTO and Xerox PARC: how the internet and PC revolution was created. I applied his basic ideas in the euro campaign, in the 2004 North East referendum, in thinking through education reform and trying to get the Department for Education to do what I wanted, in the Brexit referendum, in solving the 2019 impasse, in No10, and to removing this PM since spring 2021. With Bismarck you can follow the twists and turns of a true (and monstrous) genius in great detail and learn an extraordinary amount about how politics, government, war and diplomacy truly work. Two adjacent questions: 1) what signals of memes/news predict that X is likely to emerge from the noise and become one of the few stories/memes thats significant e.g the process of the Wall falling has started with small events which are detectable but almost nobody notices or realises what a big deal they will be in a few weeks, how soon can we, X is Y% likely to be a big story, with what confidence?
Dominic Cummings on Twitter: "RT @zebulgar: Step aside Andy Grove, I Who is Dominic Cummings? dominiccummings.substack.com. So a philosopher simultaneously prepared the ground for Hitler, deeply influenced todays Left, and personally hated Bismarck and anti-semites. (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. A modern version of Polya for children, by aFields Medalist. steve stricker wrist lock; what channel are the st louis cardinals playing on today Dominic Cummings told Parliament that his ex-boss, Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was "unfit for the job" and that government incompetence lead to thousands of excess Covid-19 deaths. 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). , biography by John Sugden. Am told that the Loebs translated by Shackleton Bailey is the best translation. I put * next to 7 which is a guess at what people 100 years hence will find most interesting on this list. . ! We look back on history and abstract over decades or centuries, judging the ideas that held sway for a few decades and sneering at how formerly all the world was mad as Nietzsche put it. Anyone interested in terrorism and counter-terrorism should watch Pontecorvos movie The Battle of Algiers, one of the best movies ever made. Many interesting developments and the launch of the 2024 campaign may be only a few weeks away, if Trump announces on 4 July as is being discussed in Mar-a-Lago. Youll see its very similar to Grovess principles (above). Worthlin. Solving Mathematical Problems, Terence Tao. Also cf. If you want to stop Trump in 2024 you should figure out what you could offer Plouffes wife to let him do it. Quotes. How to predict news? but most do not realise the last chapter is about Nietzsche and the Last Man, and this chapter is the most relevant today. In particular read. , Hardy. Their favourite argument is the laughable its a small island, about as sensible as a general saying Alexander the Great was using cavalry so its out of date. If hed run the Hillary campaign in 2016, no Trump as President. , Sipser (2005 edition). Two of the most important documents on the computer revolution by two of the critical figures in ARPA/PARC. He is not a member of parliament and is not elected. (general reader). , John Hoskyns. . Groves (fired), Bob Taylor (fired), George Mueller (not funded to push on to Mars after the moon), Renoir The list goes on and on. He left his Downing Street role following an internal power struggle, amid claims the PM's then-fiancee had blocked the promotion of one of his allies, Lee Cain, after months of internal warfare . Our impression was there is valuable low hanging fruit for governments, hedge funds, campaigns. Alls Fair, Carville & Matalin. Dominic Cummings is a man known to be fond of reading lists (Oliver Wright writes).But while the prime minister's chief adviser exhorts others to read books on subjects such as . , Charlie Munger. A remarkable 19th Century book about propaganda and politics that influenced Lenin, Hitler and PR pioneers like Bernays. Then nationalism became generally despised by educated liberals, and so on We cant, how our own ideas will appear in the future but its fascinating how little we, to imagine how foolish our own views will inevitably appear to those looking back on us. Dominic Cummings' answer is to make Britain "the leading country for education and science". There are fields like professional mathematics and equity investing where institutions mean the best people are recognised over time. (If anyone knows if his remarkable secretary, Mrs. OLeary, left any records or an oral history please leave links below.). He did not however go quietly or in apologetic mode. It is by far the best insider book Ive read on modern UK politics and the only one that realistically and honestly faces a) the failures of MPs as managers and systems thinkers, and b) the failures of the civil service. (Ive recently read some of the media commentary about 2019 that I ignored at the time and its amazing how many hacks thought I was trying to use vNs game theory.
The uncomfortable truth about Dominic Cummings's campaign playbook Cummings' understanding of modern genetics, IQ, evolutionary psychology, child development and neuroscience, as evidenced by his blog and advice to Michael Gove when education minister, is a. 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. Nobel-winner, Feynman sparring partner, co-founder of Santa Fe Institute, wrote a book on complex systems for the general reader. For this unprecedented project in world history Groves had no huge central staff, he worked with a brilliant woman and a tiny staff with truly extreme decentralisation. For us its often seen as high level political philosophy but it was bashed out by Hamilton et al as part of a brutal political struggle including many dirty tricks on both sides. The Method of Coordinates, Gelfand, Glagoleva, Kirillov. I think hes right that most academics assume models for how this works that are clearly not how people really think under pressure. Just in Time, John Hoskyns. Start trial Already a paid subscriber? The Greatest Communicator, Worthlin. The Power Broker, Robert Caro. Ciceros letters. Cummings was his most senior adviser his de facto chief of staff and the architect of the Tories' 2019 landslide victory in the general election. I did pinch ideas from how Bismarck dealt with the Prussian constitutional crisis.). You have to neglect things if you intend to get what you want done. Ill do a separate list on science funding. I really liked this classic but a lot was beyond me. Hes a very unusual thinker and much more right much more often than just about anybody, partly because of how he thinks. The real reason is most people in politics dont want to face the big questions about what government is for and how to do it better (and especially dont want to face the quality of people).
Wycombe Abbey Suicide: Caitlyn Scott-Lee Found Dead Like with ARPA-PARC its fascinating to see how funders ignore such successful examples. Reckoning With Risk, Gigerenzer. Working Backwards, by Amazon alumni. Useful introduction to some fundamentals, from Pythagoras to Newton to e and complex numbers. I will publish soon a chronology of 1862-67 following the twists and turns of Schleswig-Holstein, the escalating conflict with Austria, the domestic conflict running through the period. (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 will also show you why high performance is so hard it is totally hostile to normal bureaucracies dominated by large numbers of middle managers. Click repeat), , Hamming. Although Nietzsche despised nothing more than the radical left, he became extremely influential on it, perhaps because nobody else so thoroughly demolishes the foundations of liberal democracy, although, in a further twist, few of the left realise the extent to which they are influenced by him. No doubt about that Nietzsche produced the climate in which Fascism and Hitlerism could emerge.
Want to Get Smarter? Read Something on This List Vast amounts of what you read on this is rubbish. Why? There are fields like professional mathematics and equity investing where institutions mean the best people are recognised over time. Like Hoskyns (below) genuine rare insight and almost totally ignored. If you get into it you have no right to be bitter, youre the one who sat down and joined the game People who dont succeed, people whove had long bad times like Renoir Renoir was the best director ever are people who didnt want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. 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. The best book on politics. He had promised to resign if there was any finding against and kept his word. Like LKY, crucial if you really are interested in practical planning for high performance government. Dyson, Hawking) is wrong. This is not true of blogs like Marginal Revolution. People who havent studied it often mock Fukuyamas. (Steinbergs recent book has interesting stuff but has many errors of fact/date and interpretation.) Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Rumelt. A Boyd ally wrote about his time in the Pentagon dealing with the extreme nightmare of procurement. *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. , Beinhocker. Perhaps America has elections every four years, power supply is ~100% reliable in the First World, Europe wont see millions killed in wars again, nobody lives happily/normally to 200, robots cant escape control and kill vast numbers of humans, children should study curricula controlled by the state, I support policies that undermine traditional ideas about the family will seem as quaint in 2052 as Bertrand Russell being taught by a grandfather whod met Napoleon that British naval dominance is a fact of life.