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Summary of topics covered, although I highly recommend reading the whole thing. The author appears to be a relative insider to politics however approached the e
by alva 10y ago
Summary of topics covered, although I highly recommend reading the whole thing. The author appears to be a relative insider to politics however approached the entire campaign in a very different manner than is expected from political types.
1. Game theory
2. Probability
3. Issues with managing a large number of people, some with diverging motivations and how that effects succeeding in the group's aim
4. Enormity of establishment backing of Remain and how that helped/hindered
5. 3 conditions that left the Leave vote possible. Maybe the best section, parallels to recent US election obvious here.
6. Making persuasive arguments to a wide demographic, including their timing.
7. Warranted distrust of establishment post 2008 and its effects.
8. IYI (intellectual yet idiot) class.
9. Incredibly strong post establishment media backlash and its motivation,"Fake news", "Idiots couldn't understand", "Racists".
10. Importance of error-correction in large systems.
11. Some very innovative solutions to the above.
Overall a fantastic summary of why we have seen some political "shocks" in the West.
- smikhanov 10y agoSounds like a typical "Lessons Learned from My Year as a Startup CEO" post on Medium!