I haven’t read a ton of Dominic Cummings, but the writing of his that I have read had a pretty large influence on me. It is very rare to get any insider story about how politics works internally from someone who speaks in a mechanistic language about the world, and I pretty majorly updated my models of how to achieve political outcomes, and also majorly updated upwards on my ability to achieve things in politics without going completely crazy (I don’t think politics had no effect on Cumming’s sanity, but he seems to have weathered it in a healthier way than the vast majority of other people I’ve seen go into it).
I haven’t read a ton of Dominic Cummings, but the writing of his that I have read had a pretty large influence on me. It is very rare to get any insider story about how politics works internally from someone who speaks in a mechanistic language about the world, and I pretty majorly updated my models of how to achieve political outcomes, and also majorly updated upwards on my ability to achieve things in politics without going completely crazy (I don’t think politics had no effect on Cumming’s sanity, but he seems to have weathered it in a healthier way than the vast majority of other people I’ve seen go into it).