Two hands are a lot
Dominic Cummings’s January 2020 call for technical specialists and unconventional applicants to work in Downing Street.
Blog post · 2020Sources & confidence: High confidence
Checked 3 October 2026 · AI-assisted review
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The post advocates widening the skills available to government. It is a historical recruitment appeal, not a current vacancy or the application page for the Innovation Fellowship.
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- Dominic Cummings
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- Bias to action
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Catalogue source: knowledge/works/cummings-two-hands.md
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