What are the books Dominic Cummings told aides to read?

PM’s most senior aide planning bootcamp to teach advisers ‘how to predict the future’

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Dominic Cummings has ordered government advisers to prepare for an upcoming weekend bootcamp by reading two books that teach how to predict the future - and warn that “only the paranoid survive”.

The prime minister’s closest aide told staff attending an away day on a Saturday next month that they must read Philip Tetlock’s Superforecasting, “a 350-page book about how historical patterns can be used to make accurate predictions about the future”, says The Times.

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