{"id":2444,"date":"2020-01-03T23:20:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=2444"},"modified":"2020-01-03T23:20:38","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T23:20:38","slug":"better-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/better-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Better reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s incredibly hard to read <a href=\"https:\/\/dominiccummings.com\/2020\/01\/02\/two-hands-are-a-lot-were-hiring-data-scientists-project-managers-policy-experts-assorted-weirdos\/\">Dominic Cummings&#8217; blog post<\/a> without wondering what his everyday life must be about. What he reads, who he hangs out with, who he goes surfing\/golfing with will help create a world view where Peter Thiel is a reference and machine learning can help civil service keep things ticking along for the rest of us. So the least I could do is offer some better reading suggestions. Something a misfit would do surely. This is what I sent over, with links:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>January 3<sup>rd<\/sup> 2020<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Cummings,<\/p>\n<p>Here is some suggested reading in light of your recent blog post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/laboratory-lifestyles\">Laboratory Lifestyles, The Construction of Scientific Fictions<\/a>, S. Kaji-O&#8217;Grady, MIT Press, 2019<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Tyranny-Metrics-Jerry-Z-Muller\/dp\/0691174954\">The Tyranny of Metrics<\/a>, J. Muller, Princeton University Press, 2018.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B07JHZWTCS\/\">Counterproductive<\/a>, M. Gregg, Duke University Press, 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lulu.com\/shop\/michael-kubo\/constructing-the-cold-war-environment-the-strategic-architecture-of-rand\/paperback\/product-4837599.html\">Constructing the Cold War Environment: The Strategic Architecture of RAND<\/a>, M. Kubo, Self-published, 2009<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Buildings-Power-Freedom-Control-Building\/dp\/041507665X\">Buildings and Power: Freedom and Control in the Origin of Modern Building Types<\/a>, T. Markus, Routledge, 1993<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Global-Village-Transformations-Century-Communication\/dp\/0195079108\">The Global Village<\/a>, M. Mcluhan, Oxford University Press, 1992<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Technopoly-Surrender-Technology-Neil-Postman-ebook\/dp\/B004ZZJBW4\">Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology<\/a>, N. Postman, Vintage, 1992<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/managing-flow-technology\">Managing the Flow of Technology<\/a>, T. Allen, MIT Press, 1977<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a citizen of nowhere living and working in our great capital, I wanted to share these references to help you and your team examine the other side of your argument and approach when it comes to bringing technology into public services.<\/p>\n<p>I wish you luck and hope at the very least you can get better biscuits into Downing Street.<\/p>\n<p>Warm regards and Happy New Year!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s incredibly hard to read Dominic Cummings&#8217; blog post without wondering what his everyday life must be about. What he reads, who he hangs out with, who he goes surfing\/golfing with will help create a world view where Peter Thiel is a reference and machine learning can help civil service keep things ticking along for&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/better-reading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Better reading<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The list of recommended reading I emailed Dominic Cummings and his team (with links) #blogpost #readinglist #books #society #power #metrics","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-of-things","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-Dq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}