Dominic Cummings Offers a Sorry-Not-Sorry for U.K. Lockdown Breach Im reading this summer. The Nazis did indeed think they were creating a new world beyond good and evil, so did Stalin. Ive read at least some of (almost) all of them and (almost) all of most titles I refer to (not all the textbooks). Pentagon Wars, Burton. Steve has a startup that is a leading player in this emerging field. The Quark and the Jaguar, Murray Gell Mann. 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. The Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss. What is mathematics?, Courant. The river was also burning. If youre thinking of doing a startup or just curious about how to do hard things you should read. I know some of them. , Marcus du Sautoy. I started reading him around 1999 when I first got involved in politics. , General Groves. A billionaire should provide copies to all elected politicians. The best book about Gdels Theorem (according to the editor of Gdels Collected Works) which explains why almost everything one reads about it including by some famous scientists (e.g. ), Notes from the Underground, Dostoyevsky. I started like everyone young assuming those at the top of politics must be smart, interested in policy and great at organising things. No question, it's Dominic Cummings. The Dream Machine, Waldrop. ), Modern works on war / strategy (NB. Some interesting things I've read recently - Substack Anyone interested in terrorism and counter-terrorism should watch Pontecorvos movie The Battle of Algiers, one of the best movies ever made. , Gowers. If one could observe a discussion between Bismarck and one politician from the 20th Century, he might be the most interesting choice. Why? I found his Nobel lecture fascinating and I suspect it would be one of the most useful things to force politicians and senior officials to read. It amazes me how many scientists and economists know nothing or almost nothing about it. 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. The media laughed and many said its so boring. If youre involved in Isaac Physics and want to discuss how it could continue please get in touch.). , Slotkin. A history of the amazing Bell Labs which famously won more Nobels than most EU countries. My blog with other books HERE. Tyler Cowen, Patrick Collison and others have been trying to push some of the principles of how to do hard things into economics and government, in similar ways to some of my arguments over the years. If interested in how a government could take seriously, , follow these debates. You can learn from him about how to get very hard things done without admiring his character. Thames Valley Police have confirmed that her corpse was discovered on Friday, April 21, just before midnight. *Chaplin City Lights, The Gold Rush, Modern Times, Great Dictator. The Method of Coordinates, Gelfand, Glagoleva, Kirillov. NB. , Hunter S Thompson. A general introduction to number theory, topology, calculus and other subjects. Can we survive technology?, von Neumann, 1955. Why it's in AOC's interests to challenge Old Joe. In the meantime Ill post another tomorrow. What does it say about the West that their newspaper propaganda was much higher class than most elite philosophy now? If youre in Georgia, visit her house in Milledgeville. We can now test fertilised eggs for common risk factors such as mental disorders and heart attacks and. Los Alamos was crucial but it was part of a much vaster infrastructure of engineering projects, intelligence, planning and so on. How to predict news? khloe kardashian hidden hills house address. Audacity to Win, Plouffe. It was a direct inspiration for my terrorist demand to Boris, July 2019: we must create an ARPA. NB. Alls Fair, Carville & Matalin. Retweets. Fascinating. I wish there was something similar on the history of the LMB at Cambridge, one of our crown jewels which Whitehall (and the VC office) has gradually buried with stupid regulation. If you want to follow the cutting edge of this research follow, , which you should anyway. , Flannery OConnor my wife gave me these, theyre little known and absolutely brilliant, the closest to Dostoyevsky of anything in the 20th Century Ive read. , Carville & Matalin. On Renoir and Hollywood: It would be ridiculous to be bitter about Hollywood. Oppenheimer is better known but Groves was his boss. are great. (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. Ditto for the Johnson volumes (Ive not read) when Caro publishes the last. In the search I came across Boyd. It amazes me how many scientists and economists know nothing or almost nothing about it. Yes its striking that looking at my internet favourites for politics there are no UK-based political blogs/writers I regularly read. 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. 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. Physics for Future Presidents, and Energy for Future Presidents, Richard Muller. Want to Get Smarter? Read Something on This List Use a small number of good people (10% to 25% compared to the so-called normal systems). In the search I came across Boyd. Hard question (relevant to AGI safety debates! Almost no MPs or senior officials study him or are even midly interested. Jean Monnet created the ECSC and EEC/EU. Theres no question about this. His Art of Doing Science and Engineering is considered a classic but Ive not read. .
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