SWEARY ONE THIS WEEK.

We read through a blog entry by Dominic Cummings, director of the Leave Campaign, where he explains how "a startup created in a few months could win a referendum that should have been unwinnable." Dominic put a bomb under the British government in 2016 by using hi-tech manipulative tactics to win the EU Referendum apparently to prove how broken the system is. As two people who have spent a lot of time designing and improving systems we start to unpick the problems with his attitude and approach to the situation.

Read along here: “‘Expertise’, prediction and noise, from the NHS killing people to Brexit” - https://dominiccummings.com/2018/06/05/effective-action-4b-expertise-prediction-and-noise-from-the-nhs-killing-people-to-brexit

---- This week's links ----

[1] BRAVOs - https://brightonrestaurantawards.co.uk/ 

[2] Fish Love - Sustainability - http://fishlove.co.uk 

[3] Laylow - https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/attractions/laylow-london-restaurant-w10-bar-a4011286.html

[4] Ivanka’s Project on govt blog - https://mhclgdigital.blog.gov.uk/2019/03/28/defining-policy-outcomes-for-event-fees/

[5] “Corbyn’s views are popular” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7lsRbDKOXg 

[6] Carrilion - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillion

[7] David Heinemeier Hansson - “Living with Legacy Code” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJkiCpPeYuI 

[8] How Sqlite is tested - https://www.sqlite.org/testing.html

[9] Andrew Simms https://www.theguardian.com/profile/andrewsimms 

[10] The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande - https://amzn.to/2Uozncb 

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Music and editing by http://michaelforrestmusic.com

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