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Anand Giridharadas
Personal blog · anand.lywritingpoliticsculture
Anand Giridharadas's personal blog at anand.ly covers writing, politics and culture. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in an HN thread on the AI threat to open societies, where one commenter cites the 'winners-take-all' post as a similar critique of a tech figure's stance on democracy. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anand Giridharadas is a writer asking hard questions about politics and culture, money and power. His writing and commentary will make you think and see the world in new, hopeful ways.
What Hacker News says?
I personally don't hate him, rather dislike him. I don't think he wants democracy and that's my problem with him. (And I have, from the distance, seen some decision-making in the NGOs, which alerted me of this problem.) I think my critique is very similar to Anand Giridharadas http://www.anand.ly/winners-take-all/ and I believe many people who hate him intuitively feel the same way (although perhaps do not understan…
Comment linking /winners-take-all/
on “The AI Threat to Open Societies”Submitted Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted ‘So’ Pushes to the Head of the Line as a story · 1 points
HN discussion